Are Flagan on Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:58:33 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> From Tactical Media to Digital Multitudes |
To have multitudes, then, we need a gathering idea for them, which quickly brings us back to the proverbial Catch 22. The first symptom of this stalemate conundrum is arguably how it is theorized here. Operatives like left and right, mass and mob, network and empire are passive placeholders for multitudes that are conveniently pushed around into pigeonholes carved by persuasive rhetoric, as if they were not already deeply conflicted "multitudes" themselves. This is of course how one traditionally arrives at a general idea about the specific, tellingly called theory from its Greek root. The first step toward the stated aims must surely be to cease this nonsense and interject on less grandiose terms. As one of the heralded beats remarked on leave from the asylum: "A star is as far as the eye can see and as close as my eye is to me." -af # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net