Abstract
"[The web] shares a strange feature with painting. The offsprings of painting stand there as if they are alive, but if anyone asks them anything, they remain most solemnly silent. The same is true of [the web]. You'd think they were speaking as if they had some understanding, but if you question anything that has been said because you want to learn more, it continues to signify just that very same thing forever. When it has once been [published online], every discourse roams about everywhere, reaching indiscriminately those with understanding no less than those who have no business with it, and it doesn't know to whom it should speak and to whom it should not."
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Human No More |
Subtitle of host publication | Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the end of Anthropology |
Publisher | University Press of Colorado |
Pages | 33-47 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Volume | 9781607321705 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781607321705 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781607321699 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Arts and Humanities
- General Social Sciences