Re: <nettime> Facebook

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

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
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