- It also inspires a new wave of currency speculators interested in refashioning “ money ” as a system of valuation, exchange, and references.
- This is taken up in a different way by Hiroki Azuma in his “ Postal-Ontological ” in Ontological, Postal Basis: For Jacques Derrida (Tokyo: Shinch ōsha, 1998).
- That axis of resistance was core, for example, to the situationists ’ reimagination of the modern city through unitary urbanism, and the impetus for Guy Debord to scramble (or unscramble) le Plan de Paris into the psychogeographic Naked City, though for Debord, as for others, the impetus is not necessarily to retake the territory but unmake the possibility of a universal addressability in the first place. See Guy Debord, “ Guide psychog é ographique de Paris, ” in Discours sur les passions de l’amour (Copenhagen: Permild & Rosengreen, 1955).
- See Michael Witmore, “ Text: A Massively Addressable Object, ” Wine Dark Sea (blog), December 31, 2010, http://winedarksea.org/?p=926, and “ Digital Inquiry, ” Digital Humanities @ the UW-Madison, http://dighum.wisc.edu/digitalinquiry/.
- Witmore wrote, “ The book or physical instance, then, is one of many levels of address. Backing out into a larger population, we might take a genre of works to be the relevant level of address. Or we could talk about individual lines of print; all the nouns in every line; every third character in every third line. All of this variation implies massive flexibility in levels of address. And more provocatively: when we create a digitized population of texts, our modes of address become more and more abstract: all concrete nouns in all the items in the collection, for example, or every item identified as a ‘ History ’ by Heminges and Condell in the First Folio. Every level is a provisional unity: stable for the purposes of address, but also: stable because it is the object of address. Books are such provisional unities. So are all the proper names in the phone book. … To have this thought is to dispose relevant elements in the dataset in much the same way a spreadsheet aggregates a text in ways that allow for layered access. A reader is a maker [emphasis mine] of such a momentary dispositif, and reading might be described as the continual redisposition of levels of address in this manner. We need a phenomenology of these acts, one that would allow us to link quantitative work on a culture ’ s ‘ built environment ’ of words to the kinesthetic and imaginative dimensions of life at a given moment. ” Witmore, “ Text: A Massively Addressable Object. ”
- Jacques Derrida, The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
- See Keller Easterling, “ An Internet of Things, ” e-flux, no. 31 (January 2012), http://worker01 .e-flux.com/pdf/article\_8946204.pdf, and Molly Wright Steenson, “ Architectures of Information: Christopher Alexander, Cedric Price, and Nicholas Negroponte & MIT ’ s Architecture Machine
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