Clones, ink, social networking

I actually found taking notes in the theaters a little difficult.

Anyway, The Social Network was definitely not something I had expected. In a good way. Watching it, the thing that hit me most was how the camera and the narrative was everywhere, it was literally a mash-up of time. Although the three timelines were in chronological progression (events of 2003-4, lawsuit with the Winklevoss twins, lawsuit with Eduardo), they were meshed together in a way that was reminiscent of what Mitchell had called a 'new sense of time' in the age of biocybernetic reproduction. The biocybernetic part comes to play with the nature of Facebook replacing face-to-face interaction (as discussed in class today) in a world of information technology.
The film is also related to biocybernetics to an extent, I thought, because the film is about a 'real person' and 'real events'. It is literally a recreation (and re-interpretation) of humans through digital means - somewhat like clones, but intentionally made to be a little different from the original (the film is 'fiction'). This would justify the 'new sense of time' in the movie, which jumps back and forth and all over the place.

On a side note, there was an interesting quote I managed to get down - "The internet is printed in ink" as said by Erica in accusing Mark about insulting her on his blog. The internet, the digital medium, *printed*, in ink? It could be referring to the increasingly internet-dependent nature of today's literacy, as it emphasizes how things published on the internet holds a lot more influence than it might have in the past. But considering the volatile nature of the material online (susceptible to updates and changes, and is more flexible), compared to the fixed nature of the printed ink on paper, it might also point out how the internet and its lack of stability (it has no physical form) is meshed with the material reality in an ironic way. This could be a comment on Facebook (digital) replacing, or interlocking with, the real-life relationships (material, physical).