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i also feel like this archives emails well since they started to die in about march 2020, dms started to die in about june 2021 imo ...... >.3

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a long sentence from hillis miller about jd's macbook....' to the word processing ‘‘application,’’ such as Microsoft Word or the more primitive MacWrite that Derrida persisted, somewhat perversely, in using, to the ‘‘chip’’ with its ‘‘Random Access Memory’’ (Intel Core 2 Duo running at 2.33 Gigahertz in my laptop, a MacBookPro), to the ‘‘hard drive,’’ whose extraordinary powers (two gigabytes in my present machine, that is 2,000,000,000 bytes by decimal measurement, or 2 times 1,073,741,824 bytes, that is, 2 times 10243 by another common definition; a byte is eight bits; a bit is either a zero or a one in the binary counting system computers use) the word processing ‘‘program’’ appropriates and organizes, and then in an instant to the screen, where zeroes and ones are turned back into letters and words, is a spectacular example of what Derrida (and Nancy in his own somewhat different way) mean by the absence of any direct immediacy or presence in a ubiquitous detouring technicity that is already present in the unaided hand touching its own other hand or the hand of another, touching oneself touching the other, se toucher toi, or picking up the pen to write...'

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