Vector-24.

With the commodification of information comes
its vectoralisation. Extracting a surplus from
information requires technologies capable of
transporting information through space, but also
through time. The archive is a vector through time
just as communication is a vector that crosses
space. The vectoral class comes into its own once
it is in possession of powerful technologies for
vectoralising information. The vectoral class may
commodify information stocks, flows, or vectors
themselves. A stock of information is an archive, a
body of information maintained through time that has
enduring value. A flow of information is the
capacity to extract information of temporary value
out of events and to distribute it widely and
quickly. A vector is the means of achieving either
the temporal distribution of a stock, or the
spatial distribution of a flow of information.
Vectoral power is generally sought through the
ownership of all three aspects.

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