On Sun, 16 Jul 2017, aharon wrote:
Dear Alan, Ruth and all!
(snip)
I think that perhaps online networking alters in way time and timing is perceived. Through the morphing of utterances in twitter/fb/etc from stuff said in time to that being recorded and archived. Once archived, the time and timing of utterances alters. Things can easily come back, repeat, and so on. This is different to stuff a person might Say and then, relatively quickly, the content can fade in time and memory. Indeed, is it not fair to argue that even if we were to Control all our digitalised and networked expressions, we'd still be dealing with sensations of time and timing that are very different to how it is when we network un-digitally?
Early on, a number of us were interested in what we might call "internet weather," "network weather" - you could sense, by the delays involved, how good your connectivity was. Delay operated in a number of ways; it even played a role, I think, in (textual) netsex. Things didn't appear immediate, imminent; the network was "felt" in relation to delay. The same thing seems to happen on Fb messenger now, for that matter.
In a sense, I think the body is "besides itself" in this regard - - Alan (snip)
Cheers and all the bests! aharonon xx
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