First of all, a late response but thank you for the overwhelming response about art and games from my last request.
second, *Temporality of the online space:* This actually came to mind when you notice the large amount of temporary communities that have risen and fallen throughout the lifespan of the internet. As ideas and (consequently) technology or vice versa, spaces are quickly erased, updated or replaced by what counts as the more popular mode in which users are quick to engage with. Whatever get left behind, is archived by cultural collectors or lost completely within broken links or deleted files. I find it interesting in that the internet behaves as a sort of collective brain, and the lost content can be perceived as irrelevant or discarded memories and active communities and current information as new and learned information within a collective consciousness. However, I understand that this information is not always new and is often recycled content that is represented within a different context, or how the internet is often anesthetized as a collective consciousness but on a practical level is a tool for information sharing and collection. I think there's an overall feeling that people contributing to a temporal collective consciousness (I think-could also be regarded as current popular opinions) are unstable and are under a constant state of flux and level of uncertainty due to which the speed at which information is being produced and shared... Is this instability (of changing information and technologies) more manageable in a sense that it has a certain role to play on producing more stable systems of communities and technological process? ---- Mayke Blom.
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