{"id":6673,"date":"2007-01-04T09:45:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T09:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/04\/net-morticians-1\/"},"modified":"2007-01-04T09:45:34","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T09:45:34","slug":"net-morticians-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/04\/net-morticians-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Morticians"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 3<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>

It wouldn’t surprise me much at all if, in the year ahead,
\n\"Thewe hear more about
\nnetwork blight or the dissolution, abandonment, and decay of once-thriving
\nclusters of interconnected activity. Danah Boyd’s
\n
\nentry from Wednesday<\/a> started me thinking again about the nascent network
\ncycles that have yet to show significant, extended desultory patterns and
\ndown-trends. Boyd responds to Steve O’Hear’s notion of
\nsocial network fatigue<\/a> (via<\/a>)
\nor, basically, the idea that actors in a given system will tire, grow weary, and
\nas such, the system on a broader scale will slow to a creep or halt altogether.
\nBoyd
\nat first expresses skepticism–"Users aren’t going to tire of their friends but
\nthey will tire of problematic social spaces that make hanging out with friends
\ndifficult"–before working through other considerations
\nrelated to the fading of social networks and speculation about YouTube, MySpace,
\nand teens.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

For now, I’m most interested in the idea of network decay or fatigue brought
\nup in the entries by Boyd and O’Hear. I suppose I’d be guilty of painting with broad brushstrokes to suggest that
\ninterest in network vitalism<\/i> has, for the most part, favored genesis
\nrather than dissolution, abandonment, and the cadaverous husks of exhausted (adequated?)
\nlinks and nodes. Heck, we’ve seen much more of it<\/i>, much more of the early
\nwaves of enthusiasm and euphoria, I mean. And still, we have digital monuments
\n(relics to networks, not people, in this case), but the web’s clouds of
\ndata-dust cover them rapidly enough that encomia are usually brief. The
\nweb, despite the ether, deletion, and ephemera, needn’t be a funereal domain. <\/p>\n

To the degree that social networks are living, they are also dying, right? Or prone
\nto vacillations and arrhythmias. I only want to make a couple of notes about
\nthis, and keep them here for later. The first is that this resonates with
\nsomething I was skirting around two weeks ago in my take-home qualifying exam.
\nI won’t go into great detail (oughta wait until they’re assessed as passing,
\neh?), but I was working extensively with Munster and Lovink’s "Theses<\/a>,"
\nin which they call for a "distributed aesthetics" that will "account for these
\nexperiences of stagnation within network formations and<\/i> for coupling
\nthese networked experiences with a network’s potential to transform and mutate
\ninto something not yet fully codified." Dying, living, ongoing, mutable, more or
\nless cyclical. But because these social networks fuse together organisms and<\/i>
\nconstructs (a primal puddle of entangled code), strictly organic metaphors falter,
\nfailing to account for the multiple life cycles of flocculent data and metadata,
\nvariously inscribed.
\nMaybe Thacker’s "Living
\nDead Networks<\/a>" would help us toward a better theorized understanding of the
\ncontrails and exhaust left by networks or the network junkyards piled high with
\ncast-asides and waste. This is what I mean about the web not being a funereal
\ndomain: there’s no burial ritual for zombies, no panegyric for walking-dead<\/i>works
\n(this\/that wiki or listserv or forum or blog lived<\/i> long ago!), no lasting
\nsense of loss in abandoned heaps of information and mummified memes.<\/p>\n

The second thing–and this is a point made both by Munster and Lovink in their
\ndiscussion of mapping and by Thacker in his discussion of diagramming–is that
\nthe iconic representation of networks is, much like its counterpart in human
\nanatomy and physiology, the anatomical chart, a momentary and (potentially)
\nidealized slice of complexity (could the same be said for symbolic<\/i>
\nrepresentation? for enactive<\/i>?). That is, representing networks (mapping
\nthem, diagramming them; much of which I continue find intriguing and suggestive)
\nreally must constantly reassert the inherent dynamism of the thing depicted and
\nthe vitality downplayed by its static presentation. Otherwise, there comes
\nthe risk of something like dogfish in the dissection pan<\/i>–the network trapped long enough to rest
\nbetween two slides for magnified inspection is not quite the same as its raw
\nform, still open to transformation and mutation. I’d locate my reservations
\nabout SNA or mathematical sociology here. How, then, can mapping and
\ndiagramming network formations proceed without merely dealing with dead
\nthings–the post-mortem<\/i> networks, steel-gray in their baths of
\nform<\/em>aldehyde, describable only in their stillness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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