All the scaffolding that was needed to prop up and package other instances of writing and art has dropped away. We have the chance to write directly, outside the institutions that allowed us to speak before. The fragility and vulnerability of these new information economies seems part of the price of giving. Where this gift economy resides, in the torn edges where we negotiate our own personal economies, we get an inflow of vitality, a chance for dialogue and the dialogical. An ethics of citation keeps these epiphenomenal economies up and circulating.
Citation is a currency that allows free, x-posted messages to keep a value and find readers.
We are in need of giving. Towards further conversation and dialogue, freely given.