Hypertexxt Webring
I am apart of the Hypertexxt Webring, the second 'x' denoting a sort of "x-factor" that has become unnoticed on the WWW where hypertext documents reside.
The internet will never be boring, but there's too much lost when our attention is siphoned into the same 5 or so social media giants that
keep us kenned inside walled gardens.
I became so tired of being forcefed pay-per-click/view content and having my attention hijacked by avaricious algorithms that I set to making the finnter.net:
my very own face of the internet where I am in control.
I've had many conversations about the state of cyber society with my friend who runs her own website, so we decided to start a webring together!
Some things I'm interested in discussing in our nascent network, some of which may turn into articles in the future:
- synesthetics of web experience (audio-visual, but also haptics, I'm addicted and a large part of it is the typing and clicking!)
- weaving and webmistressing
- cybermedievalism... so much to say about this one, but I'll start with the fact that the pre-modern world was much more interconnected than we tend to give it credit for.
- Xanadu or Xanadon't: Ted Nelson and the History of Hypertext
- The loss of (digital) autonomy and coinciding trends of personal fashion and micro-identities (specialization)
- Curation versus Automation: From the Joy of Linking versus nascent search engines to AI enshittification of spell and grammar checks
- The materiality of cyberspace, mapping cyberspace. (We sometimes act like this is all out in the ether, but servers are real! data is real! the electrical grid is real!)
- Reflexivity and self-consciousness of digital media: "the internet we were promised" and the trappings of nostalgia
- Modern memetics: internet aesthetics, accessibility, and rates of consumption
- Modern memetics 2: academia and digitization
- Simulacralty: Skeuomorphism vs Abstraction in tech
- Copper Kings from mines to power lines: a history of corporate control, land stewardship, and socialism in Montana
Sites
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