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A Network (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a fragile achievement, as much prone to collapse and disorder as to stabilization and expansion.

A Network (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a never-stable set of such relations, comprising human and nonhuman actors alike... linked together, these chains or webs of interaction among multiple constituents become 'quasi-objects' in themselves.

A Network (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an amalgamation of human and nonhuman actors which interact together for: Moral decision making, establishing norms and meanings and, determining outcomes.

A Network (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠mobile, temporary and finite. Fatality is inscribed in the frail links.

A Network (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that to which all is reducible. Nothing is reducible or irreducible to anything else, Nothing ever exists by itself, but always through the mediation of another.

A Network (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that which, when it acts as a single block, then it disappears, to be replaced by the action itself and the seemingly simple author of that action. At the same time, the way in which the effect is generated is also effaced: For the time being it is neither visible, nor relevant.