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.’
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.
Following on from the blog ‘Maps of Cyberspace’ by William Drenttel… Whilst we were exploring some of the internet’s unmapped areas, we came across this enigmatic figure . We were intrigued to learn his identity and contacted the site’s creator Herbert Groot.