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February 15, 2005
Ends and Means
Tyra raises a nice issue in her post when she notes that Weinberger is very careful and conscious about the language he's using to describe his vision of the web, and I want to encourage us to push at it further. Small Pieces provides many explicit answers to the questions of network literacy that we raised last week. As you're making note of these, give some thought as to the intensities in his terminology.
Are there places where his themes are more elaborate than others? Places where his descriptions resonate with your own experience? For my part, I'm a big fan of the idea that the web enables (or affords) places without space, but this taps into my abiding interest in spatial theory and particularly in the way we generate space socially. I suspect that this connects, too, to Dianna's thoughts about outward gestures. If the web is made up of places with no space to contain it, then the only way we move from place to place is through that outward gesture, yes?
Posted by cgbrooke at February 15, 2005 11:45 PM