| Peter Lunenfeld on 9 Aug 2000 16:53:34 -0000 |
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| Re: <nettime> Interview with Peter Lunenfeld |
Dear Richard -- There was no misunderstanding to clear up. In fact, your rephrasing, "the New World makes good things and thinks lazy thoughts," rankles even more than the original. It should come as no surprise that some of the earliest critiques of West Coast techno-libertarianism originated cheek to jowl with the hype. Take "Teenage Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000" by Vivien Sobchack. Sobchack originated this dead-on dissection of "optimistic cynicism" and "the ambivalence of mondoid desire" as a short piece for Artforum in 1991 while she was still living in Santa Cruz, and then expanded it for Mark Dery's Flame Wars in 1993, after she had moved to LA. So, don't blame California (much less the whole of the New World) if too many Europeans took WIRED at face value. "The New World: Thinking rigorous thoughts since 1776." Yours -- Peter # 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]