The Heterotopia of Facebook

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

 > But Facebook? A place of otherness and deviance?!

Change that "place" into "space"!


On 22.04.2015 11:47, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:
>
> It was Evgeny Morozov who introduced the concept of heterotopia  to 
> the debates on 'Bleeding Edge.'
>
> http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/themen/evgeny-morozov-reads-pynchon-s-bleeding-edge-the-deepest-of-webs-12572137.html 
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> > „Bleeding Edge“ also offers us a deeply poetic meditation on the 
> digital modernity – an eccentric prolegomenon to a future that never 
> was but that could have been. (An alternative title might as well be 
> „A Portrait of the Internet as a Young Hipster.“) The Internet that we 
> know is here but it plays a marginal role next to the „Deep Web“ – its 
> weirder, unrulier, poorly understood sibling.
>
>
>     The almost-forgotten narrative of cyberflanerie
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> „The Deep Web“ a technical term in digital circles – the expression 
> refers to sites that search engines like Google can’t access but for 
> Pynchon it acquires another, figurative meaning. While for most 
> techies, the opposite of „the Deep Web“ is „the surface web“ – the 
> stuff that is easily accessible for indexing by search engines – for 
> Pynchon, the opposite of the „Deep Web“ is „the shallows“ (a term he 
> borrows from Nicholas Carr but uses it very differently). Thus, 
> there’s a clear aesthetic dimension to his use of the „Deep Web“; it’s 
> no longer just a bunch of web pages that have not yet been indexed by 
> a crawler. It’s a space of otherness and deviance – it’s what Michel 
> Foucault once described as „heteroutopia.“ <
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> But Facebook? A place of otherness and deviance?!
>
>
> On 22.04.2015 10:46, Dave Monroe wrote:
>> https://philosophynow.org/issues/107/The_Heterotopia_of_Facebook
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>> Pynchon-l /http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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