"An artistic movement is forming," writes David Shields in Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, "What are its key components?" His answer is randomness, spontaneity, reader participation, a fascination with artifice and authenticity, "a blurring to the point of invisibility of any distinction between fiction and nonfiction: the lure and blur of the real".
Among its hallmarks are the incorporation of "seemingly unprocessed" material; "randomness, openness to accident and serendipity;... criticism as autobiography; self-reflexivity;... a blurring (to the point of invisibility) of any distinction between fiction and nonfiction".
Just as with ChromeOS, we still hear caveats and shadings about the disruptive qualities of these WebOS strategies, but simultaneously the boundaries between these two seemingly different paradigms are blurring to the point of disappearing.
Still, for most consumers of both platforms, the cost of the operating system is blurred to the point of complete obscurity.
Blurred to the point of near anonymity, these images are poetic representations of how institutionalization forcibly removes individual identity by amassing offenders into a singular and heavily disdained mass.
I would argue that the spectrum of possibilities today is so nuanced and varied that this dividing line blurs to the point of collapse.
The F sharp minor Prelude was blurred to the point of messiness, and his stamina flagged in later numbers.
They implied that Mr Blunkett had allowed his private and professional life to become dangerously blurred to the point of abusing his office.
As Hollywood has co-opted (and arguably corrupted) so much of the geek canon in recent years, the line between true-nerd and faux-nerd has become blurred to the point of illegibility.
"I'm her, and she's me," Diamond Lil's author said in later years, and there was no demur; over the years that followed, the line between the stage character and the woman who played her had become blurred to the point of extinction.
