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Friday, January 11, 2008

the tragic poetry of web 2.0

The systole and diastole of history has us opening and closing like a flower: escaping our fortresses and enclosures into the open fields, and then building hedges, villages and cities in which to imprison ourselves again before repeating the process once more. The internet seems to be following this pattern.

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Posted by Sinker at 10:11 PM
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