It is a matter of fact that the new technologies have actualized, accelerated and ramified
the whole scriptual economy and all its relations of force, its programmings, regulations, calculations.
What is at stake with the internet, for example, is what has always been at stake, the complexities of "
writing" of "social relations." And as with all systems of writing before it, this one is unable to enforce a regime of meanings; yet it has achieved the capacity to circulate texts confaster and farther than ever.
The acceleration and expansion of the system does not, however, "unify" it; instead, inversely, it makes possible a greater distanciation, what Sartre called the "serial absence" of each point to all the others, or what in Derrida becomes the radical and volatile indeterminacy of context.
To think the internet as a "post card," for example, means to acknowledge that transmission is the only law of production, that culture itself is sent through circuits, and that all this may demand a shift in our textual ontology, toward a conception of the textual system as an illimitable matrix crossing at various speeds thru all cultural, political, and social dimensions.
