And so as the boundary between off and online disappears and as the internet flattens into reality, the novelty, fear and excitement fade. The distinction between the author and the internet disintegrates, as the internet becomes no longer the source of waste material for a detached poet to process, but a collaborator in the active, endless work of self-creation and expression. It is no longer a separate place to go for information, but the medium in which we are ourselves.
Charles Whalley, « This Has Been a Blue Green Message Exiting the Social World », in Post-Internet Poetry (http://postinternetpoetry.tumblr.com/post/132597769861/this-has-been-a-bluegreen-message- exiting-the)









