The Internet and the Perfect Crab

There are few books I have read as many times as Italo Calvino's critical testament Six Memos for the Next Millennium. What makes it such a remarkable text is how he simultaneously embodies and performs the indispensable literary qualities that form the 'memos' in the text: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, and the satisfyingly unfinished consistency. Just read how he finishes off the quickness memo with an indicative story and think about our obsession with the 'speed' of the Web and digital transformations all around us. In many ways these shifting tectonic Internet...

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