on-screen-writing collaborative sentence Electronic Writing (C.R.E.W.) feeding events, festivals, congresses forming rhizomes text-networks HYPERNATION www revolution? inter-textual links The Turing Galaxy intertextual-networks associating hypertext hotel MOOs imaginary library going Electronic Writing (C.R.E.W.) poetics of transport? MEMESIS - open forum
Each utopia is a network.
There are closed networks (religion, meditation, the aura of classical art, the book as a closed text, mass media...) and open ones (love affairs, social utopias, open artworks that allow participation, ecological cycles, the telephone system and naturally, digitalized telematic nets, open texts, interaction, hypertexts). Social networks can be found in artist groups and communities (Cobra, Flexus, Situationists) as well as in the many initiatives of the counterculture since 1968 (from food co-operatives, communes, neighbourhood groups, neighbourly help, to media co-operatives and socio-cultural centres). Nonetheless, it would be false to think that the Net-Work-Concept as such has an utopian character - the "System" (totalitarian or technocratic state, the bourgeoisie, the family etc.) is after all, also a complex network of dispositions: transmission, storage, distribution, and control mechanisms. Only a very specific use of networks can be utopian: (Network "radio" for example is employed by fascism as the central distribution unit for propaganda, while in the revolutionary struggle of the Tuparamos, it was used as a mobile guerrilla communication system - central "fascist" grouping of transmissions versus rhizomatic, nomadic networks.