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this is a passage from a paper i read for my essay that i'm quite fond of:
..."the Internet is more like a social space than a thing; its effects are more like those of Germany than those of hammers. The effect of Germny upon the people within it is to make them Germans (at least for the most part); the effect of hammers is not to make people hammers, though Heideggerians and some others might disagree, but to force metal spikes into wood. As long as we understand the internet as a hammer, we will fail to discern the way it is like Germany."
- Mark Poster, in "Cyberdemocracy: The Internet and the Public Sphere"
um. quite possibly i'm too much a geek for my own good. i found that i'd highlighted a bracket around the passage and written 'hee'. yep. far too amused.
..."the Internet is more like a social space than a thing; its effects are more like those of Germany than those of hammers. The effect of Germny upon the people within it is to make them Germans (at least for the most part); the effect of hammers is not to make people hammers, though Heideggerians and some others might disagree, but to force metal spikes into wood. As long as we understand the internet as a hammer, we will fail to discern the way it is like Germany."
- Mark Poster, in "Cyberdemocracy: The Internet and the Public Sphere"
um. quite possibly i'm too much a geek for my own good. i found that i'd highlighted a bracket around the passage and written 'hee'. yep. far too amused.
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(alas, there was no highlighting).