Claire Pentecost on Thu, 2 Apr 2015 13:23:18 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> nottime: the end of nettime |
Whether or not the announcement of nettime's final curtain has me playing the fool, I am happy to be provoked into asserting my enormous appreciation of this list and its dedicated moderating squad. Although I don't post, I do often read (or scan) and am grateful for the intellectual company of the regular voices here. Most of the communications developments listed in today's obituary that put nettime in the rearview mirror are in no way a satisfying substitute for this unique forum. I've subscribed since ... 1997(?) so observed many changes in the dynamic of the list; its trajectory describes in heterogeneous if not totally incommensurate detail the transformations of (mostly white and male alas) techno- subjectivity in our wildly interesting lifetimes. Of course it's only one small bit of the torrent, yes, mostly white and male, but also constituted of mostly good faith attempts to grapple with two decades of social and terrestrial convulsion. So, the frenetic world of electronic communications would/will be a little lonelier for subscribers like me (indulging in a little sentimentality here). Thank you to Ted and Felix and the long line of contributors. I suspect the prank is that, given the timing, we will think this is a joke. many wishes, claire pentecost # 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