Sublime

After three thousand years of specialist explosion and of increasing specialism and alienation in the technological extensions of our bodies, our world has become compressional by dramatic reversal.

networks tend to produce or reflect order or disorder.

Our culture’s adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge, and reality that irrelevance seems to us to be filled with import, and incoherence seems eminently sane.

fans often display a desire to take the program apart and see how it works, to learn how it was made and why it looks the way it does.

The real drama of the show, though, and the key sites for identification or disidentification by viewers center on the failure of these men to direct their erotic energies toward appropriate object choices (adults) in appropriate contexts (the real, not the virtual, world).

our current theories and points of reference for reckoning with electronic textuality were inadequate

embrace the VCR, like the computer, as almost an extension of their own cognitive apparatus.

reflects the generativity of cultural forms;

My research came to focus less on these new technologies than on the time and spaces that preceded them,