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TaoWiki

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on June 14, 2007 at 1:59:39 pm
 

In the beginning was the wiki, and the wiki was beautiful.

 

Wiki came out of language. Language came out of us, and we came out of language. We are wiki.

 

Wiki is nothing. A nothing which is everything.

 

The practice of using a wiki is not a practice at all: it is life.

 

Within the wiki, if the wiki is something which can contain something else, we find ourselves. We find each other.

 

The wiki fosters a loss of identity. This in turn creates a new, larger, more vivid identity which then grafts itself onto the user. The wiki creates us.

 

There is no end to a wiki. There is no beginning. There is only infinity, and only a blankness which can never be filled. At the same time, the emptiness is full.

 

More than any other medium, wiki functions as an extension of ourselves. It is an extension of other selves too. A place of meeting oneself.

 

Past, present, future: all are within wiki and are the fabric of wiki (and the fabric of nothing).

 

In the classroom, wiki serves infinite functions. It unifies as it individualizes. It creates as it destroys. It elucidates as it obfuscates. More than anything else it connects, even as it breaks all patterns and structures.

 

The wiki is not a blank sheet of paper floating around on the internet. It is instead the universe, because there are infinite directions in infinite dimensions to which one can ascribe meaning and inscribe text.

 

There is terror in the wiki.

 

It is not possible to get lost within a wiki. You are where you are meant to be.

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