«Communities are to be distinguished... by the style in which they are imagined.» «Collective imagining... takes shape through discursive engagement among interlocutors.... Discourse functions in this context not as a vehicle for transmitting information and beliefs but as a constitutive force.» Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (rev. edn., 1991): 4; Robert Asen, "Imagining in the Public Sphere", Philosophy and Rhetoric 35.4 (2002): 349.

«... the securest knowledge and the finest life are those richest in connections.» Laura Otis, Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century (2001): 81, in a comment on the webs of Eliot's Middlemarch.

«We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message...» Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (1954): 96.

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