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to AoIR 30th January 2002

 Ben,

No I live in Toronto, but of course I am 
very familiar with South East London. 

I taught at Goldsmiths College in 1994-96, 
and I am working on an electronic project 
called Coalition – ‘against hate online 
and racism anywhere’ which is a 
co-publication of Thirdnet Limited (my
publishing company) and the Centre for 
Urban and Community Research at 
Goldsmiths. It incorporates memories 
and witness of the growth of diversity, 
community, and justice in Lewisham 
drawn from Joan Anim Addo’s work and
the lifelong work of others. It is 
dedicated  to everyone who knows or 
remembers Laurie Grove SE14 and the 
remarkable community of researchers 
there, and it celebrates affinity
across and in spite of the processes
of globalization.

 I am familiar with your action research 
in Ethical Strife. I am sure Morley,
McRobbie and Geraghty at Goldsmiths will 
be interested in it too, hence I cc to 
them.

Perhaps we can chat about your work in Internet and the Large Group sometime.

Big up the Marquis of Granby for me.

No trouble or strife, my opener is just a reference 
to the blocking of a post I made. I 
have a few points as a scholar of Internet, 
and as a Dad, to make to the assembled 
Association of Internet Researchers at this critical time in defining public service internet and commercial internet and the 
ethics and the Law that applies to each.

Take care

Lachlan Brown


Don't know yet..

I live just down the road from Goldsmiths - do you live in this part of
London?

Ben



> Hello, my name is Lachlan Brown and I do Cultural Studies.
>
> Anyone got a problem with that?




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>    tumble weed idles down the mainstreet of Nettime towards the chicken ranch at th
>      "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>                                            
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>    Re: Tragedy of the Commons/Tragedy of Capital, some notes                       
>      "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>                                            
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>    Bring me my Bow.                                                                
>      "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>                                            
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>    The Tragedy of Capital                                                          
>      "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>                                            
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> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:20:38 -0500
> From: "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>
> Subject: tumble weed idles down the mainstreet of Nettime towards the chicken ranch at the end of town...
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> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:53:37 -0500
> From: "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>
> Subject: Re: Tragedy of the Commons/Tragedy of Capital, some notes
> 
> 
> Re the Commons
> 
> Its important to make a distinction between 
> American models for 'the commons' and British/Commonwealth takes on 'the commons'. 
> The 'commons' in the American imaginary 
> seems to be equated with 'the frontier-
> middle landscape' transistion in Turner's Frontier Thesis. 
> 
> The notion of 'the commons' in Britain inflects, among other things a tradition of public service altrusim (and of course Internet can be understood only in terms of the translations of this British and Commonwealth public service altrusim in several different contexts.) 
> 
> If Internet governance is to employ 'the commons' as a metaphor in the management of 
> change in Internet, then the several genealogies of 'the commons' as well as contemporary articulations of 'the commons' 
> need to be known; to help inform one or two insightful, and one would hope foresightful, re-articulations of an idea of 'the commons' that might be cited in a combined social/natural contract.
> 
> Lachlan
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> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:34:53 -0500
> From: "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>
> Subject: Bring me my Bow.
> 
> 
> I got a message to say that Hunsinger, Jones and Cubitt were involved in 'burning the evidence' over at AoIR. See Archives 24th -26th January, 2002  
> http://www.aoir.org.
> 
> Jones appears to be involved in "The Archive"
> at The Library of Congress. Some of you may
> recall the erasure of 
> 
> Of course, the whole point of my research 
> publication was to tease out reaction. May
> we now 'mark' the grave of History? 
> 
> 
> Lachlan
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> - -----Original Message-----
> From: "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>
> Sent: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:24:19 -0500
> To: air-l@aoir.org
> Subject: Bring me my Bow.
> 
> 
> >was Re: my email archives
> 
> >>One day no doubt the world will mourn the >loss of my juvenilia. <cubitt>
> 
> >I doubt the world will mourn, Sean, the loss >of your ‘juvenilia’, as long as it did not 
> >and does not impact the rights of others.
> 
> 
> Turn yourself in Cubitt and stop babbling.
> You are distracting, but then this is your
> ideological function in the field of new 
> media and digital culture, the purpose of 
> my intervention in AoIR.
> 
> 1. The Primary producer has a right to the fruits of his or her labour. We cite sources in scholarship for a range of reasons that I am sure scholars of AoIR would like to list.
> 
> 2 Yes, erasure is an art of power. However the
> trace of erasure leaves an impression that has permanance. My research has teased out instances far more remarkable than any you 
> may presently have in mind. So, shut up
> and let things unfold.
> 
> 3. Contemporary Culture is a wee bit less
> ephemeral than you might like it to be, matey. There are memories, there are histories and as I am sure you will dimly recall, there is foresight.
> 
> I shall introduce myself to the scholars of
> AoIR. Shut up and sit at the back.
> 
> Lachlan Brown
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >Hey Lachlan
> 
> >Yes but
> 
> 1. there  are engines for the storage of our missives that we wot but
> little of (I'm constantly ego-surfed by students checking my credentials
> who then ingratiate themselves by quoting 'publ,ications' I never knew I
> had, a common enough thing, and) as Cap'n Beefheart once said I'd like to
> give my music away for free, it didn't cost anything where I got it from.
> The internet is a self-archiving entity by nature, so why privatise memory
> when it can be socialised?
> 
> 2. the privilege of the personal archive reduces to one thing only: the
> right to erase. Exercise of this right reveals only a hankering for a
> pre-modern Enlightenment privacy. Unless of coursxe you are an Enron
> executive, member of the unelected government of the USA, recovering
> alcoholic in charge of genocide against the Palestinians or otherwise
> disgraced person, in which case you have forfeited the right to be treated
> with the usual ethical obligations reserved for mammals
> 
> 3. The contemporary culture is intensely ephemeral. Those dull Derrideans
> who wrte endless preambles to the foreward before the preface believe they
> are writing in the sprit and style of the events they understand to be
> a-foundational. Perhaps we shd on principle delete everything in the intray
> on the principle that because it is in the intray it is obviously
> out-of-date (incidentally a phrase which first appeared in popular
> journalism circa 1896 . . . )
> 
> Now keep out of trouble, and delete this message
> 
> 
> 
> s
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> Sean Cubitt
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> was Re: my email archives
> 
> > I'm not quite sure what you mean by "archiving." <warschauer>
> 
> >anyone else archived all their incoming and outgoing emails, <hunsinger>
> 
> >How do we keep it secure (both in the 
> sense of "private" and in the sense of "safe")? How do we think about it, if at all, right now? 
> That is, I suspect we all have this sense of the "stuff" that we have 
> on our disks and hard drives, but how does that intersect and 
> interplay with how we feel about the box of letters we keep in the 
> closet? Will we encrypt stuff, or keep it open? Will we erase some? <jones>
> 
> >One day no doubt the world will mourn the loss of my juvenilia. <cubitt>
> 
> I doubt the world will mourn, Sean, the loss of your ‘juvenilia’, as long as it did not 
> and does not impact the rights of others.
> 
> Forgive me for crashing in, but a little 
> bird told me I should take time out of my 
> intervention in Nettime (I think I have pitched things about right over there), to
> check to see what AoIR was doing under the
> duress of contemporary cultural ‘events’ and
> the impact of ‘emergency’ legislation.
> 
>  I sense unease.
> 
> This ‘e-mail archive’ thread reads a little 
> like an annual general meeting of the ‘Intellect and Imagination Temperance Society’ and I would remind 
> you four of your duties and responsibilities not merely as scholars, but 
> as members of an international intellectual community. 
> 
> After seven or eight years in which questions of archival, catalogue, 
> identity, access and availability of information and knowledge,
> gender, ethnicity, uneven distributions of information, uneven 
> accumulations of knowledge, new relations of distribution of 
> media and communications and new relations of 
> mediation in a tremendous cultural contest that 
> cast new perspectives on the nature of governance, 
> institution, scholarship, democracy, not to mention an economy 
> led like a pig with a ring in its nose by the mere ‘idea of Internet’, 
> you’d think we’d have got a little further along 
> in an understanding of technology in contemporary 
> culture.
> 
> What, one wonders, have you all been doing?
> 
> Yes, I kept all of my files and email communications 
> 1993-present. Saved, time-locked, stored, periodically. 
> I thought this was a simple matter of research scholarship, 
> quite in line with the Social Sciences Methods and 
> Approaches course I took at Goldsmiths College as 
> a requirement in undertaking PhD work. Given the 
> intense contests already apparent in 1993-94 – 
> perhaps rather more apparent then than they are now 
> - -- around the meanings and governance of the technology, 
> I would have been remiss in my scholarship to not do so. 
> 
> 
> >>>It was easy to imagine a scenario in which, say, The National Security 
> State employed archives to influence government, 
> commerce and public opinion to help render compliance to the agenda 
> of the National Security State, alternatively imagine a situation in which 
> commercial or alternative interests employed these archives to the same 
> end. Or rather, easy to anticipate the nature of a contest between these 
> interests (it’s called “the pretzel debate” apparently’) and you, pretty much,
> have something closely resembling contemporary culture…>>>
> 
> 
> Lachlan
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> Lachlan Brown
> Thirdnet Ltd
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> Cultural Studies
> Goldsmiths College
> University of London
> Toronto: M.(416) 826 6937
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>          lachlan@london.com
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> http://third.net 
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> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:17:19 -0500
> From: "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>
> Subject: The Tragedy of Capital
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> There is no 'tragedy of the Commons'. 
> On the contrary ‘the tragedy’ is not with 
> 'the commons', it is with the power 
> relations and investments which 
> throughout history have put the onus 
> of 'the tragedy of capital' upon ‘the commons’.
>  Familiar positionality, familiar enclosure, 
> familiar hegemonic foreclosure. 
> The commons are usually expected to pay 
> for the tragedy of Capital. 
>  
> This 'tragedy of Capital' is presently 
> being played out at a number of levels;
> after all Western Capital has fucked the 
> earth. The West is in knowing denial of this
> fact. Islam is supposed to pay the bill?
>  
> It is carried out in Nettime around what 
> is, essentially, a question on the nature 
> of Property, intellectual or otherwise, the 
> relationship of 'shareware + open source or 
> let's simply call it ‘public service altruism’ 
> often but not always supported by 
> public service institutions  to ‘the market’. 
> It is not a matter of  'public commonalty 
> vs private property', it is a matter of finding
> ways to make their interrelation make sense
> taking into account the social and the natural 
> contract to ensure a future for our earth and 
> for ourselves.
> 
> This is the character of the present 
> engagement or War between The National Security State and its Others. 
> 
> Lachlan Brown
> 
> http://third.net
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