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Changing sensibility: Towards a hypertext mind *?

“The fragmentary promises not instability (the opposite of fixity) so much as disarray, confusion.”

(Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster)

Is the blog an attempt to externalize the workings of the mind and convert the mind to its electrate equivalent?

Blogging is the most adequate vehicle for the writing of the – any- disaster. It may not be the ideal relay, but it is as close as we can get to at this moment in time. At the same time, the relays within this relay (i.e. the philosophers, theorists, mythologists etc) may not be the ideal relays, but that is what experimentation is all about.

The fragmentary nature of the blog, along with its open-ended structure, provides the site for writing the disaster.

But how can we account for the “fragmentary without fragments”? How does the remainder emerge into consciousness? Or, can the elusive remainder ever fully manifest itself to us?  Can the remainder ever surface, or does it remain perpetually situated within a feeling?

The remainder is  “that which is left to be written and which, like the disaster, has always preceded, and ruined, all beginnings, including the beginning of writing and language. (And yet, …”  (Blanchot).

This blog functions as an experiment in electrate writing and thinking; it also tests the very boundaries of electrate writing. These boundaries are partially self-imposed, that is, they are dependent on our level of electracy and electrate proficiency.

The apparent lack of finality that lies at the core of the blog indicates that the current apparatus shift from literacy to electracy has changed – and is still in the process of changing – the ways we process and access information. Moreover, the on-going apparatus shift is affecting the ways in which we infer/make/ expect meaning, and also the very nature of meaning.

Electracy is changing the ways in which we experience ourselves. We are entering a new realm of subjectivity, one that is defined by and through images. But, “images” are not images anymore. Just like electracy is not just computer literacy.  [More on this in the Experience section]

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