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On the arc of the shift to the small, one could plot many points: In 1665, Robert Hooke published Micrographia, the first great work of microscopy. In 1839 the Royal Microscopical Society was founded. Georg Cantor’s set theory — his finding the infinite in the space between one and zero — went to press in 1874. The electron was discovered in 1897; Bohr’s planetary model was presented in 1913; the onset of the Atomic Age began in the 1930s. Claude Shannon’s dissertation and his theory of “bits” in 1948; the invention of the microchip in 1958; The Blue Marble in 1972. The internet: 1969; the outbreak of social media: the early 2000s. In his 1985 essay “To Shrink,” philosopher Vilém Flusser attributes the interest in the discovery of worlds within the infinitesimal to a kind of revulsion for the body, a contempt for physical size that, he argues, “represents a regression, a distancing.” It was a sign of how we were becoming “less solid,” diminishing the importance of the corporeal “to the

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