olivier auber on Sun, 3 Nov 2019 23:49:26 +0100 (CET) |
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The loss is more important to me; the community functions as best an
online community can. I'm connected with all sorts of other networks as
well such as Furtherfield, ELO, etc. What I find worse and more
problematic is the university system including publications - I can't
afford most books that are advertised for example (which is why the
Alexandria project was so important for me); I go to conferences if I can
get a stipend, etc. American intellectual life is more of a divide for a
lot of people than Fb.
(Of course it also depends how intelligently one uses Fb; I put in a lot
of controls, use blocking, etc.)
- Alan
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Frederic Neyrat wrote:
> Thanks Alan! But I've a question, I try to formulate it... Let's say:?
>
> 1/ FB enables to create a "community," that's good for sure;?
> 2/ but in the same time, it destroys?the condition of the possibility of
> community/togetherness/Gemeinwesen/?tre-ensemble, etc. For instance, in making
> possible the election of people whose main goal is to destroy any
> community/being-in-common (note that I do not consider being quantified and
> recombined by algorithms a good way to generate some being-in-common).
>
> So, in the end, I understand?that something would be lost by leaving FB -
> hence my first question! - but would it be possible to say that the loss is
> even more important while not quitting FB?
>
> My best,
>
> FN
>
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 11:14 AM Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> wrote:
>
>
> I'm on it because there are a number of new media
> artists/writers/etc.
> including myself who form somewhat of a community - it's a way
> to
> distribute work, especially if one's not in academia or media
> industry.
> It's brutally flawed but also useful and it gives more scope to
> textual
> work than Instagram.
>
> Alan
>
> On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Frederic Neyrat wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to know if some people on this list - be they
> activists,
> > environmentalists, artists, thinkers, contributors - are
> (still) on Facebook
> > and if yes, why, being given the extreme noxiousness of this
> "social" (?)
> > network.
> >
> >Thisarticle?https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/03/facebook-pol
> itics-
> > republicans-right
> > is not the reason of my email, but its occasion.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your light on this matter,
> >
> > Frederic Neyrat
> >
> >
> >
>
> web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552
> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/wm.txt
>
>
>
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