Monday, November 12, 2007

Hopeful Monsters

I just stumbled on this quotation (used as the pre-script for an article entitled, "Introduction: monsters, machines and sociotechnical relations"):

"I said 'I think they might also be what are called "hopeful monsters.".'
She said 'What are hopeful monsters?'
I said 'They are things born perhaps slightly before their time; when it's not known if the environment is quite ready for them.'" (Nicholas Mosley, Hopeful Monsters, p. 71).

Such a lovely concept.

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