| Michael Century on 14 Aug 2000 13:27:54 -0000 |
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On the recent crossfire between New and Old worlds on who has priority for saying sensible critical things about (in this case) "WestCoast techno-lib". Take a moment, pause - think how we in Canada look on at this jousting. New and Old. No need to go back to 1776, to the Revolution (which we never bothered with). Somehow, few of you out there ever seemed to understand that McLuhan was always a *satirist*, much more than a techno-optimist. That's in part why it was so insufferable for us to see him sanctified as he was, on the Wired masthead. Michael Century # 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]