| richard barbrook on Sat, 5 Feb 2000 17:42:26 +0100 (CET) |
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| Re: <nettime> New York Observer: The New New Strategy |
Hiya, ...or should this be an old, old strategy? In 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions', Charles McKay says that - at the the peak of the South Sea Bubble in April 1720 - "an unknown adventurer" announced the launch "a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." After successfully selling all the initial offering of shares in just one day on the London exchange, McKay recounts that this "man of genius... was philosopher enough to be contented with his venture, and set off the same evening for the Continent. He was never heard of again." (pages 55-6, Wordsworth edition). Later, Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Richard Barbrook Hypermedia Research Centre School of Communications, Design & Media University of Westminster Watford Road Northwick Park HARROW HA1 3TP <www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk> +44 (0)171-911-5000 x 4590 ------------------------------------------------------------------- "While there is irony, we are still living in the prehistoric age. And we are not out of it yet..." - Henri Lefebvre ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you would like to keep in touch with what is happening at the HRC, you can subscribe to our Friends mailing list on: http://ma.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/lists.friends.db # 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: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]