Re: <nettime> nottime: the end of nettime

[Thomas Gramstad <thomas@ifi.uio.no>]

+1

Thomas Gramstad


On Thu, 2 Apr 2015, Claire Pentecost wrote:

> 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.


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