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                                             April 06, 2022

                                             "Metropolis on the Styx" (2007)
                                             by David L. Pike

                                                         DEEPSIX


   "The mysteries of the Internet-- so accessible and yet so
   limitless, so private and yet so open to the world, so
   secure and yet so vulnerable-- provide a coded
   representation adequate to the new spaces of the
   twenty-first century.  Global space, a conception of space
   with no discernible ties to the traditional nation-state
   or to physical geography, cannot accurately be represented
   through a verticalized conception of space ..."  --p 313


           The sheep can not look up,
           if no one knows what's up.   Aeria gloris, eh?


   "The Internet's uncanny combination of plenitude,
   danger, and endless repetition has replicated the        We have met the
   urban mysteries' veiw from below for a new               cyberpunks, and
   middle-class audience, able safely to surf the           they are us.
   world without ever actually stepping out into
   it. The myriad nooks and crannies of cyberspace
   conceal many truths about the actual mysteries of
   global space... "              --p 313
 
                                                Armchair tourism of hell,
                                                for the devil curious.



   "... although the answers to those mysteries always lie
   in the physical spaces beyond the virtual spaces where
   they are able to be represented.  Moreover, the greatest
   mysteries are so well known as to constitute truisms and
   cliche's ... " --p 314


          Which I think brings us back full circle,
          to the Mysteries of Academia.






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