Lisa Goldman on Sun, 12 Sep 1999 05:00:24 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Linux wins Prix Ars due to MICROSOFT INTERVENTION |
over the last few days, it has been interesting to watch the discussion resulting from the hoax email and to consider whether an elegant algorithm could, in fact, be considered "literature." however, i feel compelled to submit that this was not a question that preoccupied the .Net jury in our deliberations this year. the jury was looking for works that reflected a net aesthetic - derrick de kerckove coined the term "webness" to describe this quality. we thought of this as work that is distributed, community-driven, evolutionary in it's form and development, and that actually couldn't be created without a network. Using this criteria, Linux seemed to us to be an outstanding example of what the net makes possible, and to be well deserving of the prix. _Lisa Goldman (really) On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, David Garcia wrote: > >it is probably a posthumous outrage that Einstein never _was_ awarded the > >Nobel literature prize. In >hindsight he has been a crucial influence on > >western literature ever since the publication of his relativity >theory. > >Freud should have had one too, by the way... # 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: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net