Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Virtual idols as well can be thought of as _resonances,_ or _reverbera- tions_ among sheaves of files - by this I mean that their (proper) names are linked, each citation, _say,_ of Jennifer or jennifer, linked to every other - it is this _skein_ that constitutes appearance, fiction, narra- tive, no matter how wildly disparate the individuated texts or files ap- pear to be. This might be considered itself a new occurrence in fiction, related to cutups, the novels of Richardson and Sterne, Wittgenstein's anecdotal philosophies, the Romantic fragments of the Atheneum, etc. - to mention a few of the older sources.
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