@FrontPorchRepub 3/ I love poetry—speak it, I’m told—but I don't have the writerly knack. Though I admit to a Xian interest in media ecology, I'm otherwise but a pedestrian hack. X, a perfect fit. And yes, AI woke me to em-dashing. Priesthood-pretty it ain't. But in 280 spaces, it's a power tool.
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Screenshot of The Observer Newspaper's ('The Guardian newspaper's Sunday version.) Allotment blog, Thursday 20 December, with headline: From our foreign correspondent This article is more than 18 years old Oregon-based seed ambassador Nick Routledge introduces himself, his thoughts and feelings on avant-gardening. Subtweet: 1/3 My fascination with foreign correspondents, half a century old now, prompted my first career, in journalism. Truth be told, if there's one thing the passing of the decades teach, it's that the stories, utterly captivating though they are, remain the same. Plus ça change… Quick meta-aside, Allan. Thank you for your offer of penning a regular column for the Allotment Blog. Don't think I ever mentioned to you that as a teenager my icons were foreign correspondents - I devoured everything they wrote, and everything about 'em. Always wanted to be one. In retrospect though, the quotidian fare of your typical hack abroad - politics, famine, revolution, assorted disasters n' suchlike - hasn't held my attention for a long time now. Robert Fisk's latest, The Great War for Civilization, strikes me as a classic example of the genre - an unrelieved litany of political mendacity, torture, rape, genocide and war, by a journalist passionately committed to the cause of justice, and rightfully regarded as one of the more remarkable voices of his generation. For old times' sake, I picked up this text by an icon of mine: for new times' sake, I simply had to put it down. I'm deeply thankful, then, to have been offered the mantle of a 'foreign correspondent' whose essential brief is the fundamentals of peacemaking - to light candles rather than curse the darkness. I had no idea it was going to take me nigh on three decades of shilly-shallying before I finally picked up that tagline. And, of course, there's no newspaper on the international stage I'd rather be hanging with. Ta very much. More to follow, then.
Open original document@DanielGilmanHQ Eloquently stated, Daniel. And worth noting that for all its and our flaws, the fundamental structural ontology of Twitter and the corresponding social ecology it peculiarly enables, remains "a possibility space" unparalleled in the history and reality of human interaction.
![Depends what you're about. Even if its positive evolutionary significance remains largely unrecognized, no other platform weds to the peculiar
ontological promise of internetworked hypertext as does Twitter. Some get
it. Most don't.
Odd, isn't it, that hypertext's structural ontology, and the concomitant
revolution in expression of consciousness and bounds of possibility space it uniquely allows, remains typically unnoticed. Is such awareness born only from within the possibility-expression-structure itself?
1/ Le subtweet? The radical, evolutionary iteration of a *spatial* dimension to semiotic radiance "distributed among the strengths of the connections [links!] between the units." Landow, Hypertext: the convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology
10/ Put another way, what is it to interpret the evolutionary ontology of, say, Twitter itself, in theological terms? What is the deeper Christic function of
cyberspatial disarray, division and inequity? Why are we _here_?](/media/1857107886293545201-GcXFxiMaAAAJWKd.jpg)
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Depends what you're about. Even if its positive evolutionary significance remains largely unrecognized, no other platform weds to the peculiar ontological promise of internetworked hypertext as does Twitter. Some get it. Most don't. Odd, isn't it, that hypertext's structural ontology, and the concomitant revolution in expression of consciousness and bounds of possibility space it uniquely allows, remains typically unnoticed. Is such awareness born only from within the possibility-expression-structure itself? 1/ Le subtweet? The radical, evolutionary iteration of a *spatial* dimension to semiotic radiance "distributed among the strengths of the connections [links!] between the units." Landow, Hypertext: the convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology 10/ Put another way, what is it to interpret the evolutionary ontology of, say, Twitter itself, in theological terms? What is the deeper Christic function of cyberspatial disarray, division and inequity? Why are we _here_?