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In his travels around Australia, EJ Brady started to catalogue ways in which its vast, ‘empty’ spaces might be turned to productive use. A hardy yeomanry armed with the latest science could transform these so-called ‘wastes’, and Brady was determined to bring these opportunities to the attention of the world.

Do you ever daydream about going back in time and doing things differently/undoing in your own life? Of course you do. I do far more than is healthy I’m sure. I do it too for history. I draw and redraw spatial and temporal maps in my head. I fill them with space, valleys, plateaus, expansive bodies of water, and quiet. I’ve decided perhaps that for my project I will build a time and teleportation machine and practice a different kind of creation/construction: how about an erasing cartography as restoration? I don’t mean like this (hey again Mr. Battles). I mean…Here is a map and here is some history, here is some stuff, here is some non-stuff. Let’s do some of that non-stuff. Less is more. Etc. Haven’t we made enough stuff? Haven’t we made enough messes? There is no more room in my brain to cache it, yours?

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Mayday Mayday overload overload…
This Is How The Internet [/age of info…] Is Rewiring Your Brain

If I remembered which of the de Certeau and Bachelard quotations I wanted to tie this all together with, they would go here. Can I buy more ram for my brain? No? Okay then. (Oh wait, maybe? Gaah!)

But anyway. “We’re putting stuff back,” says Sherratt, “not taking it out.” But perhaps it may be productive to the reverse?

However, Sherratt’s implications of mapping affect is an interesting framing of Byfield’s reference to defining information as “the difference that makes a difference.” What kind of difference are we making? Or trying to?

Funny how across the board from Byfield to Zims to Liu, everyone is trying to ask the question “what is information? and what is knowledge? and what is the difference?” and the more we know, the fewer answers there are.