In the last few decades, these two conduits of change have co-mingled like never before. He looks at the direction this relationship is taking in the closing moments of the 20th century. When Hardison leaves the present and heads for the future is when he started to lose me. Inset from cover art. They are knots in a net.
Art always turns into posturing.
Language in its traditional forms therefore becomes less and less complementary to the world it is suppose to represent.