Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Espionage and copy work through communal ethos-retrieval are distinctive features of the medieval era. It’s not unironic in the least digital data assembly enables our return to that ethos. Work produced now is parallel to others along almost innumerable dimensions (once factors or facets). And if most of that work is still authored, we can posit a flourish of production (including poetry) over a measurably short time will totalize individual product into, arguably, 2nd-tier relevance (with a few nonconceptual exceptions, of course).