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March 10, 2005

Autonomy and Creativity

The social and cultural movement that underlies cyberspace -- a powerful and increasingly broad movement -- is covering not toward any particular content but toward a form of communication that is unmediated, interactive, community based, nonhierarchical, and rhizomatic. Generalized interconnection, the hunger for virtual communities, the exaltation of collective intelligence -- none of those constitute the elements of a political or cultural program in the classical sense of the term. Yet all three are secretly driven by two essential "values": autonomy and an openness toward alterity.

-- Pierre Levy "Cyberculture"

"autonomy and an openness toward alterity" = “人的自主和”?

Posted by Xiao at March 10, 2005 07:42 PM


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