Thursday, February 17, 2005

#4 - bullet points

Mapping the web passage was a challenging task - making the connections the priority is not something we're prepared to do with a visual way of looking at things - actually almost any way of looking at things, for me at least. we're taught to make bulleted lists (i'm really bad at this) that eliminate all the connecting tissues of language. I have a friend that refuses to use bullet points, and it drives me crazy. Are the lean, space-saving conventions of bulleted lists an anti-deluzian in nature? Or by trusting other minds to read the connections, be they made of logic or otherwise, an overall enriching endeavor by not forcing your exact thoughts on someone? by not having complete specificity, the chance of a comment revealing something about your project you hadn't realized was there is increased, much more so then by pulling people through your exact thoughts using word filler.

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