Atomization

Atomization is not altogether bad, if besides developing on their own the atoms can be brought to relate to one another. Kwinter is right that the consumerist ethos works toward repressing that interaction. But perhaps there is a field of social gravity that fights that isolation. One way to encourage dialogue is to provide tools for making interrelations among texts and images and virtual spaces, and ways of referring to and mapping those interrelations so as to create higher-order texts and objects. The medium could have a bias towards interrelation rather than isolation.