[Nettime-bold] AIR - the Beserkr Saga becomes territorial

["Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 00:04:42 -0500
To:  <sjones@uic.edu>
Subject: Re: Subscription to AoIR


> Steve,
> 
> Oh Brave New World. 
> 
> Thanks for hosting my intervention. Just
> doing cultural studies. Let me know when 
> you dare to resubscribe me. I am 
> taking the issues elsewhere.
> 
> I recognise the difficulties of freedom
> to speak in America, I am in Toronto and things are hardly better here, but we obviously have different ideas about how to
>  respond to these difficulties. 
> 
> The purpose was to stress the need to 
> speak directly to areas of absense in 
> research despite a post-national emergency atmosphere. 
> 
> I illustrated just how easily these absenses 
> may (and probably will, if the reaction of 
> the list is representitive of an 
> intellectual community in the States) be 
> used opportunely and politically.
> 
> Something quite ugly emerged in the AIR community and I am sure that I am not the 
> only one uncomfortable with it. 
> 
> My intervention was a necessary one and 
> and it was carried out across several lists
> with responses from each. New networks 
> and affiliations as well as a new set of 
> questions have emerged. A clearer picture
> of research gaps, as well as ways to
> approach these questions more clearly 
> defined in critical as well as creative 
> approaches have appeared. 
> 
> I am drafting a brief proposal for two
> initiatives: a revival of '@party' (the 
> people who built internet used to meet in exclusive social gatherings) with people 
> from education, industry and the arts to consider the broad diversity of people with email addresses (or @party), and 'A 
> Commonwealth and European Association of Internet Researchers' which, I would hope, 
> will have less difficulty than Americans presently have with social inclusion, the digital divide, and the place of the body 
> in Internet. 
> 
> The Nordic imaginary prevailed in a curious way. It was interesting to see how the 
> humour of the British/Norwegian conversation of the early 70s has been carried through 
> to the present, but somewhere along the way
> the motives of those people to educate, enlighten and entertain, was lost to
> ignorance and the reproduction of ignorance. 
> 
>
> 
> Lachlan
> 
> 
> > No. The decision will not be reversed.
> > 
> > I would suggest that for purposes of your "interventions" that you 
> > start your own list.
> > 
> > Best wishes,
> > Sj
> > 
> > At 5:35 PM -0500 3/18/02, Lachlan Brown wrote:
> > >Steve,
> > >
> > >     I disagree. It has become clear in this
> > >list and with posts to parallel lists that
> > >a pattern is being pieced together that
> > >highlights a number of abuses in Internet
> > >education and industry.
> > >
> > >     My methods, sometimes blunt, are
> > >appropriate given the nature of the
> > >questions emerging.
> > >
> > >     Please reverse your decision.
> > >
> > >     Lachlan Brown
> > >
> > >
> > >>personal, inappropriate and harassing in nature.
> > >>
> > >>  Sj
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >--
> > >
> > 
> 

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