Sorry for spamming your channel with all these comments, watched your work over the weekend and constantly came back to this video. The ideas are engaging and prescient [the digital polis as a term will be appropriated] I have also struggled with the idea of the Internet's control and moulding of culture and especially the hubs of specialists and alternative ontologies online; it's frightening in regard to some particular areas of human thought & subjective experience [esp mental health]. The idea of a library was one of the most intriguing ideas in Borges' work & I agree your definition goes further that the standard understanding of libraries and interestingly opposite of the norm; as libraries w conspiracies are usu termed collections. The fetishist is esp evident to bookish pple as often the genre nerd will approach the best understanding of subjective experience in a Tiresiasian POV [to borrow your ananlogy] than a "well-read" person if the texts are explorative. Thanks for this, it has become a talisman for pushing my thinking, hope to see more ramblings.
Sorry for spamming your channel with all these comments, watched your work over the weekend and constantly came back to this video. The ideas are engaging and prescient [the digital polis as a term will be appropriated] I have also struggled with the idea of the Internet's control and moulding of culture and especially the hubs of specialists and alternative ontologies online; it's frightening in regard to some particular areas of human thought & subjective experience [esp mental health]. The idea of a library was one of the most intriguing ideas in Borges' work & I agree your definition goes further that the standard understanding of libraries and interestingly opposite of the norm; as libraries w conspiracies are usu termed collections. The fetishist is esp evident to bookish pple as often the genre nerd will approach the best understanding of subjective experience in a Tiresiasian POV [to borrow your ananlogy] than a "well-read" person if the texts are explorative. Thanks for this, it has become a talisman for pushing my thinking, hope to see more ramblings.