15. So one feature of "post-text" world is works that borrow from orality -- twitter, for example, which has elements of conversation.
@mdpollak My twitter essays are hardly the norm of discourse in this medium!
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@HeerJeet True! But you said "only the textual world can." More like, only it wants to. -
@mdpollak You could tweet all of Piketty's book. Not sure if that's the best way to convey what he has to say. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet That is, it seems more a matter of norms and preferences than technological limits or capabilities. -
@HeerJeet Perhaps condition of "thinking linearly" - advancing argument a long way - is ppl shutting up & keeping questions to the end :-) - Show replies
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