At Sat, 6 Mar 1999 17:45:22 -0800, you wrote:
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>Reed wrote of credit:
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>>A way of thinking about this shift is in McLuanesque
>>terms (equally in terms of Bruno Latour)..the medium
>>is the message. The faith of transaction becomes so
>>IMPLICIT that it drops out of our conscious perception.
>>We just assume it, without need for justification..the
>>question doesn't even occur to us to ask.
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>Like in the case of <cash>. As we all know, at one time currency
>represented something (gold in a vault somewhere, for instance), now it only
>stands for itself. The question "cash or credit" is really more like,
>"which form of credit are you using for this transaction?"
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>-Prof. Tim
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Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher