"There are words, but they often seem to be words stripped of context, words desperately burdened by the lack of the other familiar markers of identity in this strange, ethereal realm. It is no wonder that these digitalized words, flung about among strangers and strained beyond the limits of what written language in other contexts is called upon to do, are given to frequent misreading, or that they erupt as often they do into antagonistic 'flames'. In a medium of disembodied voices and decontextualized points of view, a medium, furthermore, beholden to the fetishization of speed, the experience of ambiguity and misreading is bound to be less an exception than the norm."
