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        phenomenology


        intranet net internet: the middle term as an intersecting node, 
        mobile within the latter, and the phenomenological horizon 
        within the former.

        model the internet on a sphere; there are no end-points, no 
        dead-ends, no terminals. or rather, the terminals, dead-ends, 
        end-points are thick like the irrationals on the continuum -
        everywhere across the globe.

        who, why, when, where, what, how: interrogatives which 
        traditionally appear in relation to events within classical 
        space time: where / when for example presuppose a discrete 
        occurrence located within a cartesian grid. 

        now _where_ is moot: everywhere and nowhere, tied to the 
        ontology of data. _when_ is a stuttering legacy of routers which 
        may or may not possess a discrete origin on the emission spread, 
        dissemination.

        _who_ likewise, referencing one or many or a spread across 
        individuals, often remains indeterminate; think of _doxa_ or the 
        _they._ but think as well of _which,_ choosing among an already 
        predetermined collectivity, and the problematic of _which_ 
        online.

        _what_ likewise presupposes a discrete _phenomenon,_ which may 
        be classically described; _what_ on the net references, instead, 
        a _weather_ with immersed observers, participants, or unknowns.

        _how_ stutters, like when, through microworlds, microprotocols 
        and programs. _how_ is a also a collectivity, based on 
        heuristics, prompt-line and other commands, pathways through 
        wires and atmospheres.

        _why_ is dependent in the first place, on first places, causes 
        and effects, interrogatives and answers fulfilling the gap left 
        by the uplift of the question. _why_ works autonomically in the 
        small, loses its reason in the large.

        how, what, why, when, where, who, lose their _face_ among the 
        implicate order of the networked worldings. with the loss of the 
        _face,_ language adjusts poorly to the real, physical, virtual, 
        problematic, alter.

        think of the autonomic world or anorectic world, the symbolic 
        cast as centrifugal residue against intermachinations of 
        kernels, world into worlds, ontological identities transformed 
        into epistemological equivalences. 

        think of intranet [ net [ internet, the series without beginning 
        or ending at either end of these spectral disturbances. think of 
        organization or articulation traveling the wires, mutually-
        adjusting protocols or agents. think of multiply-connected 
        riemannian spheres.

        (as a concrete example - look at the _emission_ in relation to 
        what has been traditionally a classical _election_ or _voting 
        procedure_ in the united states - as if there were a clean and 
        proper resolution at the end of what is, increasingly, a 
        _mess._)



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