There Is No “There” There

This article was written for Scroll magazine number two, on the theme of “place”, where it appeared in edited form as “Disrupting the Conceptual Metaphors of the Web”:

http://scrollmagazine.com/number-2/conceptual-metaphors

We’ve developed an array of metaphors for talking about the intangible spaces of the web. Maybe it’s time to unshackle ourselves from some of them.

http://adactio.com/articles/1640/

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