David Garica on Thu, 2 Apr 2015 18:33:24 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> nottime: the end of nettime |
Brilliant- I don't for a moment accept that it was a simple April Fool. It was deadly serious. But still on April 1st Ted & Felix found the only legitimate way to break the golden rule of Nettime: no meta discussions! Alongside skilful and authoritative moderation the no meta-discussion rule was one of the principal secrets of Nettime's longevity helping to avoid destructive inward spirals that had destroyed many earlier on-line forums. So by threatening to pull the plug the meta-discussion genie has jumped out of the bottle. So now what ? Will it prove to have been the 'suicide pill' or the risky surgical intervention required to revive the comatose patient? The answers to Modsquad's painfully forensic critique (ouch) lie in our hands. So lets put some concrete propositions on the table, before hastily reinstating the golden rule. Heres a starting pint; it may just be coincidence but I would say that the list was most vibrant when nettime people found ways to get together in person, spending days together in inspiring and strange locations. Either connecting to festivals or conferences or off its own bat. So for at least one more time (and hopefully more) lets revive this lost part of the original model? In the original post the Mods referred to a Bucharest 20th birthday plan that didn't fly. Well maybe we should put some other scenarios on the table. I am sure there are many places that would happily host this. I have some thoughts on how this might look but as usual they are hopelessly Amsterdam centric... I am happy to report (I am sitting there now busily "anthologising") that a new generation of uncynical people and possibilities are emerging from the ruins and demonstrating the resilience of this culture. But of course thats just my historical bias I'd happily travel to pastures new. One other thought though there is much talk of 'sharing' nettime writers used to share (and risk) far more. I may be mistaken but as the community (dangerous word) and its discourse has developed it has also professionalised and not always in a good way. Where once writers would have rehearsed their ideas here in rough form I suspect that the pressures around academic/publishing commodification creates a greater a reluctance expose the ideas before publication. Could this be why it feels a less risky, energetic and generous space or am I (as usual) being nostalgic. Thank you to you Modsquad David Garcia # 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