Wednesday, March 12, 2014

submit to information technology

the technology we use to experience media is more meaningful than the media itself. all things considered, isn't an iPhone more interesting than my tweet? media technology lends our media meaning. 


that one person knows or doesn't know something, even everything, is unimportant. knowledge only happens communally---it is stored on the internet. it exists digitally/electronically, no different than the status of knowledge in a human brain, except the knowledge on the net can actually be physically examined and located ('this content at this IP address', for instance) whereas the human brain will likely always be a mystery. 

my message to you is LESS meaningful than the infrastructure used to transmit it. that has yet to sink in anywhere. submission to the the internet's infrastructure is a philosophic touchstone. we must directly observe this eclipse of meaning. everything opposed to it is regress and retrograde because the material basis of the internet and the net's activity is the highest and newest form of life.

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