Kenneth Michael Florence

  Co-authored by   Daniel Townhead This article  was also published on the Symbolic World blog . AS SHE WALKED FROM the Louvre, she seemed to sense some articulated structure shifting to accommodate her course through the city. The waiter would be merely a part of the thing, one limb, a delicate probe or palp. The whole would be larger, much larger… Of course, she thought, of course: It moves around me constantly, watchful and invisible, the vast and subtle mechanism of Herr Virek’s surveillance… “A man like Virek is incapable of divesting himself of his wealth. His money has a life of its own. Perhaps a will of its own. He implied as much when we met… While I walked here, I imagined a structure, a machine so large that I am incapable of seeing it. A machine that surrounds me, anticipating my every step.” – William Gibson,  Count Zero 1 In the first part of this series , we recounted the history of egregores as a concept, showing how in the modern era it has tended towards describing ‘