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characterizations about the externalization of memory and the problem of re-presentation. with memory removed from the embodied self, there is an erosion of personal autonomy (the external localized memory is the technological network -- which is not a network after all, but a lateral hierarchy). the act of placing memory externally reifies what would be an internally dynamic condition of evolutionary presence.
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the possibilities of hypertext in the space of the world wide web were recognized within a few months of the advent of the http protocol in the Internet: here are a few simple examples of projects which use those fundamentals. many of these projects hyper-weave into the broader neoscenes space, so there is no telling where you might end up in the local hyperspace of about 4500 html pages. fare thee well!
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Modern man is insecure and repressed -- isolated from his fellows yet desperately clinging to the collectivity which he trusts to protect him from the might of other collectivities. Divided within himself into instincts and spirit, repressions and sublimations, he finds himself incapable of direct relation with his fellows either as individuals in the body-politic or as fellow members of a community. The tremendous collective power with which he allies himself gives him neither relationship nor freedom from fear but makes his life a sterile alternation between universal war and armed peace. The modern crisis is thus a crisis both of the individual and of society at large.
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-- Maurice Freidman
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