I don't believe there is anything new to the notion of the distributed self. The self is the self in the world. Leibniz put forward the idea that the self, a monad contains the world. Everything of the world is in the individual. Yet the self is always, in all ways, always becoming. We are autopoetic, in search, in flux, between meaning, becoming understood, accreting, desiring machines, unknowing, unbecoming. The understanding of these words, now, are in the context of a distribution of meaning held in the space of understanding and misunderstanding in the singularity of a moment in a vast galactic metabolism, in the ever evolving social techno space of language.

The telematic architecture of the www is the visual analogue of a long known sense of the self held in the embrace of the cosmos. The embrace of this technological platform extends us into each other where for brief moments I am known to myself, affirmed, extended, distributed in that the pleasure of this feeling, of this knowingness is completed and only know by the distribution of this embrace.

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– Marc Lafia