"…writing can be seen, not as an individual personalized achievement, but as a series of strands in a larger social-spatial textual fabric (the network).” (175)
This quote reveals how the network, containing various works from many people in itself, changes the way one percieves writing as a personal acheivement done by the individual. This draws lines between what we talked about in class with networking, and how there is no specific author or linear path in this kind of writing. Many ideas and different texts get thrown together into a conglomeration of spatial writing, making it impossible for their to be one sole writer responsible.
Glazier compares this "large social-spatial textual fabric" to jazz by saying "it points to a sometimes jazz-like cacophony that sets the stage for the outburst of material properties to illuminate the site of the text." (175) What he might mean by this is that the tools used aren't methods to realize a project but expand the imagination to become part of the project itself. These tools such as morphing programs or animation formats help form a new intelligence to be born.
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