Repeat Users of Online Forums

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They opperate from a postion of deficiency. They need to join, with the frequent taggers fearing being left out. Actually being left further out of something they wanted to belong to many years ago. The internet forums are habituated by the same personality frequently found at neighborhood bars. The internet has made a bigger neighborhood, and one that caters only to people of “my” type.

where everyone knows your sig-line

The Pirate Dance

Posted on Posted in A Symbol Life, pipeline, the Lab, The Negative

Mimesis eventually mimes itself
a copy of a copy — the barber’s walls

Above from an overnight — finding that it mates with a technote. technight : below

making duplicates or copies is trivial — schematically. circa 1980, we in labs had ready available lab films suited to the process flows of this note. I’ve written notes about the how-to using current emulsions — somewhere on webionaire.

above and below. how I know.

[The mode of literary criticism in which Mimesis operates is often referred to among contemporary critics as historicism, since Auerbach largely regarded the way reality was represented in the literature of various periods to be intimately bound up with social and intellectual conventions of the time in which they were written. In this he followed Giambattista Vico.]– wikip