Nora wonders (and this is a really nice question), “what is a platform for a mesh media?” Perhaps the answer is all around us, and is what the internet is, deep down? (That it is being dominated by commercial media forms of audience maximisation and advertising is endlessly depressing, but if you don’t want to be a billionaire then perhaps it allows for a meshwork? Cowbird anyone?

Nora follows this up with thinking about Ingold and across versus through. One collateral outcome of our studio is beginning to think in ‘meshes’, and so given the internet as a ‘meshwork’ it is laying the beginnings of the cognitive change needed to ‘think’ and use the internet as something you work in and through, rather than across. What would it be to make in and for the mesh, rather than outside and use the internet only as the place of publication/distribution?

In mesh media you media things only ever exist in relations. It is a relational media. As Louis notes, nothing is ‘whole’, there is no ‘inside’ and ‘outside’. (Beyoncé’s Lemonade, what and where are it’s edges?).

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