The theorist George Landow, writing on Hypertext, urges us to forget the usual conceptual elements which hold language together and, instead, use new substitutes ‘such as multilinearity, nodes, links, or networks.’ Elements of syntax - and, when, so, or - are now converted to a range of physical manoeuvres: mouse up, mouse over, mouse down etc. A click now links us to our mediated world.’
It could be argued that the progressive de-politicisation of politics has been mirrored in recent times by a superficial pseudo re-politicisation of art and design - in other words, the transformation of political action into merely symbolic action or pseudo-activity.
Being modern has long been associated with speed. In the 1920s the leader of the Futurist’s art movement, Marinetti, asked his fellow Italians to stop eating pasta as it would slow them down. Later, Le Corbusier would comment that a modern city was a city built for speed.