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on books and hyperspace

What I want to know, though, is what are the contemporaries of this work, and its descendants. What was next to it on the shelf at Borders Store #1 when I pulled it off the shelf to buy it? Who will nod knowingly when I pull it out of my bookshelf, dust it off, and flip through to find some passage that I might remember? What should go next to it on my own shelves, real or imagined?

https://vielmetti.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/having-read-a-passage-from-a-book-i-then-rereading-benedikts-cyberspace/

from a 2014 review of Michael Benedikt‘s pre-web anthology “Cyberspace: First Steps” (1991/1992),

#hyperspace #cyberspace

Having read a passage from a book, I then …. Rereading Benedikt’s “Cyberspace”

I’m rereading some books from my bookshelf, on the theory that it’s easier to make sense of the static texts that I own than to try to dip into the infinite stream of the internet and b…

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