America's Prodigy


         

Progress Progress III (for all those who came before)

          We cannot talk or think or work in single threads anymore. Its open to question if we ever really could, but that was the ideal. It is a ridiculous idea to set up (only to be knocked down again) but the web, the tangle, the network is all now. ALL.
         
          Network theory (the proposition that the next generation will be defined by the form and implications of network/ed culture) posits the idea that any point in the network is defined by its relations rather than its individuality or uniqueness.
         
          "Today, network culture succeeds postmodernism. It does so in a more subtle way. No new 'ism' has emerged that would lay claim to the familiar territory of manifestos, symposia, definitive museum exhibits, and so on. Instead network culture is a more emergent phenomenon." *
         
          * Kazys Varnelis
          The Meaning of Network Culture
          in Dispersion
          catalogue from an exhibition at ICA, London
          3 Dec 2009 - 1 Feb 2009
          ed Polly Staple and Richard Birkett
          pgs 106-116