One such imagination belongs to Rosalind Brodsky, who believes herself to be a time-travelling researcher employed by IMATI, the Institute of Militronics and Advanced Time Interventionality. Courtesy: the artist, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, and P.P.O.W. Suzanne Treister, Mind Control, 2006, from the project 'Hexen 2039'. If everyone (and everything) can be so easily interlinked, an active imagination can quickly trace lines of causality that play fast and loose with orthodox historical narratives, finding conspiracy and shadowy sub-plots where previously there was only coincidence. Depending on how you look at it, this can either be taken as proof of the comfortingly small world in which we live or give a vertiginous view of the infinitely overlapping networks of people and places that, in our understanding of the world, we struggle to keep separate. One theory has it that anyone can trace a connection to anyone else on the planet by no more than six degrees of separation.
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