fractalization

“Strangely, though, as the discourse of cities seems to be flowing towards fractalization, radical specification and individuation, the telecommunications industries seem to be tending towards aggregation and centralization.”

varnelis.net - network culture

“Even if that's true, some tendency towards fractalization should be detectable, even if it's not obvious from our current, still-not-enough census information.”

The Unreasonable Man

“As the survey progresses and we have more data we might be able to discard statistical variations and see the fractalization or fractalization tendency.”

The Unreasonable Man

“Wittgenstein also noted that the complexity of one's life or experience and of one's language were directly correlated--we can't imagine how one could understand oneself as having a deeply complex life without a similarly complex language for describing that complexity, and the reverse is true as well, though, of course, the fractalization of life makes it possible for a life that looks simple to one person be very complex to the liver of that life.”

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