Code-X (2)

By: Joshua Glenn
April 30, 2014

Let’s call this code: Wired Self-Potentiation. From a market category we might call: Networked Technology.

Definition: Multitasking re-imagined as existential branching-out. Breaking the mold. Demonstrating vitality, multiplicity, and proactive refusal to conform to stereotyped expectations. All thanks to networked technology.

Notes on this code: “Self-Potentiation” is a phrase I’ve lifted from the German Romantic poet Novalis. Also a mathematician, Novalis was interested in the notion of raising the self to a higher power of itself.

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Josh Glenn, HILOBROW's editor, is a principal of the commercial semiotics agency Semiovox. He is co-author and/or co-editor of several books, including The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the bestselling family activities guide UNBORED. In the ’00s, Josh was a columnist and blogger for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section; in the ’90s, he published the zine/journal Hermenaut. He lives in Boston.