Franz Thalmair, our peer from CONT3XT.NET just published a great interview with?Peter M?rtenb?ck and Helge Mooshammer on Furtherfield. This pair of researchers?run Networked Cultures, an initiative that produced a text of the same name last year.?M?rtenb?ck and Mooshammer on the essence of networks:
As perpetual transformation is a key characteristic of network structures, it has become part of the politics of most networks not to give away their actual ultimate strength. What many people find so attractive with regard to network organisation is precisely this clandestine character: The way networks disseminate information, the way they obfuscate the ins and outs of participation, the way their operations change direction and new forms of cohesion suddenly arise.
Read on at Furtherfield.
