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16 Jul 09
Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription
"Paths engineered by a writer do not destine the realities of readership."
20 Apr 09
The Next Great Discontinuity: Part 2: The Data Deluge
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humans imitate and termites merely are
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Our thinking is linear, reductive and bound to the page.
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The Next Great Discontinuity: Part 1:Grapholectic Thought an the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness
Rourke: Our error is to mistake grapholectic thought - thought maintained by writing and print - as the only kind of thought we are capable of.
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Our modern notion of “truth” denies all wisdom that cannot be plotted on a graph; that cannot be traced backwards through the recorded evidence or textual archive.
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Thus the attribution of meaning emerges from the present, synchronic situation, rather than being reliant on the consequences of past observation:
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