Re: [-empyre-] t[otalic]ime again

["app][lick.ation][end.age" <netwurker@hotkey.net.au>]

mel wrote:
>ive just been talking about this..- well.. not time specifically but
>linearity and dimensionality, at the consciousness reframed conference in
>perth.au last week - about what it means when the web compacts geography,
>space, time etc,by making everything binary and available at the instant
>click of a hyperlink... and i tend to agree that the end of geography is
>an illusion , just as fluid identity and multiple locality are,.

heya mel + all:)

..this type of reasoning|thought intrigues me, as does the [wo]manifestoish 
hype & hyper.bole that can accompany the ideas u point 2 here (cf endings 
of states aligned 2 "real world" function[ings]), s.pecially in regards 2 
the utopian end of the virtual spectrum........ie geography as opposed 2 
amorphography.........

>I find the
>way contemporary socitey always thinks it is the first to discover
>something, to reach radicall new positions, sort of irritating

...mel, r u referring 2 the idea here that space is s.sentially 
collapsible|inconstant & how this relates 2  the idea that 
virtuality|networked arenas r conceptualised as unique, rather than 
contextualised as fundamentally trajectoric?

>- im sure
>that people of other times and cultures had very rich
>interdimensional/geographical/intellectual experiences thru both thier
>heightened sensory immersion in thier immediate locality, and their
>spiritual beliefs which shifted them into other planes of being thinking
>feeling... Its merely a different rhythm of time/space that we get used to
>on the net, when information space is 2dimensional.... flat , or shallow
>as olliver dyens was talking about when he was a guest earlier this year,

..i suppose the key term here is _different_.....

chunks,
mez




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