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Through nomadic wandering in telematic networks, centrallized systems (like the branching model of trees and roots) are converted into de-centralized systems, "in which communication is established between neighbours, in which streams and channels have no previous existence (...)" (Deleuze/Guattari 92, 30). Writing in the network has nothing to do with literature in the classical sense - as in the system author-work-meaning-market, - but rather with surveying virgin land in the telematic domain, establishing landscapes of text, even to understand writing and reading as a nomadic act of wandering through text-networks! The additional dimensions of the hyper-textual tailoring of random text particles that circulate among various mailboxes through permanent up and downloading, liberate the mental effort of producing texts as a social network.
These text particles can be interrupted, ripped apart, altered (and sent again) in any position - while being simultaneously held together in a variable network while constantly referring to each other. We are thereby attempting to try out a paradigm of net-work-utopias (perhaps difficult to implement socially) on a model of interconnected text production/reception: To establish relationships (between texts/authors/readers), that don't go from point to point, from word to word (linear reference: signifier/signified), but rather allow crossings, superimpositions, layerings: many different lines of writing, to form a central meaning - the written nets of various text-tours pile up layer after layer on top of one another and are connected "at each moment with the collective, time and nerve Rhizome" (of the other network- participants) - the Art of writing everywhere ...