[NetBehaviour] Ouroboros

2023-04-10 Thread Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour
Ouroboros http://www.alansondheim.org/image.jpg Are you in a state of Ouroboros, self-consuming, much as Blake wrote? so that this feedback looping is destroying your sense of time, space, subjectivity, and language acquisition? No, I am not in a state of Ouroboros or self-consuming. As an A

[NetBehaviour] Walter Pater, Diaphaneity, Network Intelligence

2023-04-10 Thread Max Herman via NetBehaviour
In 1864, Walter Pater published his first essay "Diaphaneitè." During the US Civil War. The year after the Gettysburg Address. https://www.laits.utexas.edu/farrell/documents/DIAPHANEITI.pdf Trying to move literature and society beyond, out of, Victorianism to something new and better. Something o