the_web.txt

Each of these "areas" of chaos could be represented by topographs similar to
the Mandelbrot Set, such that the "peninsulas" are embedded or hidden within
the map--such that they seem to "disappear." This "writing"--parts of which
vanish, parts of which efface themselves--represents the very process by which
the Net is already compromised, incomplete to its own view, ultimately
un-Controllable. In other words, the M Set, or something like it, might prove
to be useful in "plotting" (in all senses of the word) the emergence of the
counterNet as a chaotic process, a "creative evolution" in Prigogine's term. If
nothing else the M Set serves as a metaphor for a "mapping" of the TAZ's
interface with the Net as a disappearance of information. Every "catastrophe"
in the Net is a node of power for the Web, the counter-Net. The Net will be
damaged by chaos, while the Web may thrive on it.