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The Melancholy of Subculture Society · Gwern.net

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Internet links small groups, helping dissolve big groups; good, bad? But a bit sad.

--- title: The Melancholy of Subculture Society description: Internet links small groups, helping dissolve big groups; good, bad? But a bit sad. created: 2009-01-12 modified: 2019-02-05 status: finished confidence: possible importance: 9 css-extension: dropcaps-cheshire ... If you crack open some of the mustier books about the Internet---you know the ones I'm talking about, the ones which invoke [Roland Barthes](!W) and discuss the sexual transgressing of [MUDs](!W)---one of the few still relevant criticisms is the concern that the Internet by uniting small groups will divide larger ones. # Su

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