Michael H. Goldhaber on Wed, 8 Apr 2015 14:12:10 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> nottime: the end of nettime |
Thanks Ted and Felix for revealing that you weren't completely serious, as well as for your incredible energy in editing all through the years, bringing many lively thoughts and fascinating conversations to us in what has seemed like "real time." I note that when I began to subscribe, at Bruce S's suggestion, back in the 90's, Deleuze and Guattari's thought seemed the polestar by which all else was reckoned. It has utterly disappeared, without replacement, as far as I'm aware. My guess is this is not peculiar to nettime, and may not be a bad trend at all, but it is in some ways a sobering fact that obeisance to some kind of possibly vague but "higher" thought is understood as no more needed or helpful. To be sure much of that was a kind of academic posturing at one time likely to help in certain careers, but no longer. Still one misses the poetry of it, a bit, along with the sense in retrospect that the world was then young and full of mystery, or at least of "miasmal mists." Does someone else or perhaps you, Felix and Ted, have a clearer sense of why none of us see fit anymore to enclose our writings in that kind of gift wrapping? Best, Michael > On Apr 7, 2015, at 6:44 PM, dan@geer.org wrote: > > Dear Moderators, Thank you for your thankless work. <...> # 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