Keith Hart on Thu, 2 Apr 2015 05:23:34 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> nottime: the end of nettime |
Felix and Ted, I can understand that you might be fed up after all those years. Thanks for your heroic labour. If no-one else wants to take it on, so be it. But there is something intellectually dishonest about the historical, social, demographic and geographical reasons you give for winding it up. It boils down to saying that the mission identified in the 90s doen't work any more. I know that Geert is desperate to find a new mission in the age of anti-Facebook. But nettime doesn't need a purpose. It is itself. No doubt we each have our own use for it. I find a uniquely eclectic assortment of links that members pass on. I get to read Brian, Patrice, Michael Gurstein, even Felix and Ted occasionally. I have been very ill and I'm making a comeback now. The network provides an ideal audience for some of the things I want to say. It doesn't matter that it's archaic. So is email, they say. The repertoire evolves, but retains the old forms with the new. Nettime absorbs less than 2% of my onlin, but it nourishes me and I have nourished it. It must be onerous to be a 90s internet activist who feels he is past his sell-by date. It is true of course. Avant-gardism of that kind has had its day. I don't feel alienated by what succeeded it, since I was never a cutting edge techie in the first instance, just a fellow traveller. Yet the network has character, built out of the layers of its accretion. It is brutal to cut nettime off in this way. Of course, there may be no takers to succeed you. In which case RIP. But having held on for so long, is it a case of apres moi le deluge? Keith On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 7:35 AM, nettime mod squad <[1]nettime@kein.org> wrote: Dear Nettimers, present and past -- <...> -- Prof. Keith Hart [15]www.thememorybank.co.uk 135 rue du Faubourg Poissonniere 75009 Paris, France Cell: +33684797365 References 1. mailto:nettime@kein.org 2. http://in-berlin.de/ 3. http://desk.nl/ 4. http://material.net/ 5. http://thing.net/ 6. http://waag.nl/ 7. http://kein.org/ 8. http://bitnik.org/ 9. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9810/msg00048.html 10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettime 11. http://nettime.org/info.html 12. http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l 13. http://www.nettime.org/ 14. mailto:nettime@kein.org 15. http://www.thememorybank.co.uk/ # 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: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org