![]() And with no building–or inscribed significance, like a park or childhood memory–the place feels anonymous. Before the bridge exists, the area is just a “spot.” Things are happening in it, but nothing is built there. One can look at the bridge as a concrete space of possibility, a site that can direct meaning at some level in ways that an unmarked, undeveloped area cannot. The bridge in this example, by being constructed, is opening up a “location,” a significant site where different elements can gather and be. Thus the bridge does not first come to a location to stand in it rather, a location comes into existence only by virtue of the bridge.” One of them proves to be a location, and does so because of the bridge. Before the bridge stands, there are of course many spots along the stream that can be occupied by something. ![]() “The location is not already there before the bridge is. In his later work, Martin Heidegger discusses the notions of “location” (or “locale”) and “space.” As he writes in “Building, Dwelling, Thinking”: As Richard Rogers argues in Digital Methods, our methods should “follow the medium.” For now, I want to reflect on what that medium is. More specifically, I think that the quality of born-digital space forces us to look at space as an ephemeral, emergent gathering, and this should affect our methods. While I want to get into more concrete considerations of method, I want to pause initially and consider what “space” or “community” constitutes the subject of Internet inquiry. They may have a url pinning them down, just as Byron’s saga traces the physical geography of Southern Europe, but Byron’s textual place–his “pathless woods” and roaring sea–arrive at us in ephemeral language. We are networked selves, accessing the Internet in multiple ways from multiple places or portals, as our physical self continues to take up space and air “irl.” And much like the narrative locales of Romantic poetry, many digital spaces are constructed and emergent. A “society, where none intrudes” clashes with the usual rhetoric surrounding the networked culture of social media and the digital, and the “lonely shore” and “pathless woods” probably lacks WiFi–or broadband.īut bringing in Byron highlights the paradox of place that the Internet and digital technology brings. Starting off a reflection about social media with a quote from Byron about the solitude of nature seems counter intuitive. What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.” I love not man the less, but Nature more,įrom these our interviews, in which I steal Byron's illegitimate children include Allegra Byron, who died in childhood, and possibly Elizabeth Medora Leigh.“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, His only legitimate child, Ada Lovelace, is regarded as a foundational figure in the field of computer programming based on her notes for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. He died in 1824 at the age of 36 from a fever contracted after the First and Second Siege of Missolonghi. Later in life Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire and died of disease leading a campaign during that war, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. ![]() During his stay in Italy he frequently visited his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. He travelled extensively across Europe, especially in Italy, where he lived for seven years in the cities of Venice, Ravenna, and Pisa. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular. He is regarded as one of the greatest English poets and remains widely read and influential. ![]() George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer and politician who became a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, and is considered one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement.
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