{"id":4495,"date":"2011-01-29T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/01\/29\/the-promise-of-the-internet-as-alexandria-is-more\/"},"modified":"2011-01-29T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T11:19:00","slug":"the-promise-of-the-internet-as-alexandria-is-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/01\/29\/the-promise-of-the-internet-as-alexandria-is-more\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It\u2019s the ability of individuals to choreograph that information in idiosyncratic ways, the hope that individuals might feel invited by the gravitational pull of a broad and open commons to \u2018rip, mix, and burn\u2019 \u2014 to curate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, \u201cA World in Three Aisles: Browsing the Post-Digital Library\u201d Harpers 314: no. 1884 (May 2007): 56.<\/p>\n

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The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It\u2019s the ability of individuals to choreograph that information in idiosyncratic ways, the hope that individuals might feel invited by the gravitational pull of a broad and open commons to \u2018rip, mix, and burn\u2019 \u2014 to curate. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, \u201cA World in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-1av","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1399,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/18\/curate-blackgirlsrpretty2-we-shouldnt-have\/","url_meta":{"origin":4495,"position":0},"title":"curate: blackgirlsrpretty2: we shouldn\u2019t have\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"July 18, 2013","format":"gallery","excerpt":"curate: blackgirlsrpretty2: we shouldn\u2019t have to reblog this but you know how that goes","rel":"","context":"In "motion"","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_l98d5olNAg1qzb8r6o1_500.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":353,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2014\/08\/21\/the-banality-of-evil\/","url_meta":{"origin":4495,"position":1},"title":"the banality of evil Arendt’s\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"August 21, 2014","format":"quote","excerpt":"the banality of evil Arendt\u2019s thesis was that people who carry out unspeakable crimes, like Eichmann, a top administrator in the machinery of the Nazi death camps, may not be crazy fanatics at all, but rather ordinary individuals who simply accept the premises of their state and participate in any\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "motion"","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":849,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/08\/01\/in-network-theory-a-nodes-relationship-to-other\/","url_meta":{"origin":4495,"position":2},"title":"In network theory, a node\u2019s\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"August 1, 2013","format":"quote","excerpt":"In network theory, a node\u2019s relationship to other networks is more important than its own uniqueness. 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