<nettime> hands up, put the keyboard down slowly digest [lebkowsky, acey]

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Re: Striking at the Heart of the Grammar Police State
     "Jon Lebkowsky" <jonl@well.com>
     camille acey <camillesname@yahoo.com>

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From: "Jon Lebkowsky" <jonl@well.com>
Subject: Re: <nettime> Striking at the Heart of the Grammar Police State
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 19:33:32 -0500

> My point was apposite: Nettime isn't a mirror, reflecting our diary entries
> and dream-journal jottings and Notes To Myself, in ASCII. It's one-to-many
> medium, with two thousand minds on the other end.

Or perhaps a one-too-many medium, with two-thousand-too-many minds at the
other end?

I'll have another noosphere, please, on the rocks...!

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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:18:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: camille acey <camillesname@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: <nettime> Striking at the Heart of the Grammar Police State


1. IS A CALL FOR CLARITY AND CONTEXT IN NETTIME POSTS REALLY A TROJAN HORSE
FOR A CULTURAL-CONSERVATIVE AGENDA WHOSE ULTIMATE GOAL IS THE IMPOSITION OF
SOUL-SHRIVELING GRAMMATICAL AND STYLISTIC STANDARDS INTENDED TO SUFFOCATE
ARTISTIC EXPRESSION, AVANT-GARDE INNOVATION, AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY (BE IT
AFRICAN-AMERICAN, DIASPORIC, FEMINIST, NON-ANGLOPHONIC "ENGLISHES," OR 
WHATEVER)?

i do not think so. though i have been hesitant to
respond as i feel i lack the wit and vocabulary to
accurately express my opinion, i think mark's request
was a simple one:
context would have been nice. 
i too was a bit confused by "no people" and
considering the fact that the writer had such a
specific stimulus in writing it, i think it only fair
that the reader be clued in 'cos the inspiration for
this piece was not made any more obvious by READING
the piece multiple times. 

camille
http://www.geocities.com/camillesname

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