We were always human

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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 languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationHuman No More
Subtitle of host publicationDigital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the end of Anthropology
PublisherUniversity Press of Colorado
Pages33-47
Number of pages15
Volume9781607321705
ISBN (Electronic)9781607321705
ISBN (Print)9781607321699
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Arts and Humanities
  • General Social Sciences

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