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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Perhaps more like the cosmological question ‘why is the universe lumpy’? (to which the answer might be either ‘dark matter’ or ‘dunno’!)<BR>
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On 21/07/09 2:31 PM, "Simon Biggs" <<a href="s.biggs@eca.ac.uk">s.biggs@eca.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE="1"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:9pt'>A bit like dark matter then?<BR>
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<B>From: </B>Sean Cubitt <<a href="scubitt@unimelb.edu.au">scubitt@unimelb.edu.au</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:14:44 +0100<BR>
<B>To: </B>Jonathan Beller <<a href="jbeller@pratt.edu">jbeller@pratt.edu</a>>, Alan Sondheim <<a href="sondheim@panix.com">sondheim@panix.com</a>>, <<a href="idc@mailman.thing.net">idc@mailman.thing.net</a>><BR>
<B>Conversation: </B>Alan's questions about media theory/ies<BR>
<B>Subject: </B>[iDC] Alan's questions about media theory/ies<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10.5pt'>Axiomatically, there is mediation. It comes before such accidental and contingent binaries as subjects and objects, space and time. It even precedes communication. Mediation is a name for the fundamental connection between (and within) everything. Sometimes it communicates, sometimes it just opens channels, sometimes it is pure poetry, and exchange of energies. The biggest question for any historical theory of media is: how come, in a universe where mediation is the law, there is such concentration, delay, detouring, and hoarding of it?<BR>
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