| Jody Berland on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:54:51 +0200 (CEST) |
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| <nettime> Re: nettime-l-digest V1 #1750 |
There seems to have been big tidal waves of events that flowed past me and I didn't notice. How could I have missed Montreal?? I just came back from there. I would like to add my 2c worth to the lurking and working arguments. I don't think anyone should underestimate the fantastic space Nettime has opened up or how important it is to keep it going. But why it is important is also why it is hard. Someone commented that ... with more and more social noise blaring out of internet-boom-boxes we are moving towards entropy and inertia; we are increasingly inclined to neither hate, nor love, just to open up more.... And the more stories we are exposed to, the less inclined we are to take positions. How could we? Knowing that so many view things so differently. Personally, I agree that there is too much information coming at me from the internet, someone asked me recently how much time I spend on email/internet and I said, probably 2 hours a day. It's ridiculous. So sometimes I don't get to the Nettime postings, and after a while I just sigh and archive them. But information overload isn't really why people "don't take positions"-- I think it's because of precarity (fear of being outspoken) and overwork (burnout) and also because career paths are more and more tied up with the issues discussed on the list. As my colleagues and students become more technologically sophisticated, they also get more canny and privatized and careful. That's why we need this list -- to demonstrate to ourselves and one another that it is still possible to be intelligent, committed, and even polemical about things that matter even when you can't put it on your CV. Jody Berland ----- Original Message ----- From: "nettime-l-digest" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:32 PM Subject: nettime-l-digest V1 #1750 >nettime-l-digest Wednesday, June 7 2006 Volume 01 : Number >1750 > > > >Table of Contents: > > <nettime> hear ye, hear ye... truce for NNA discussion > <nettime> report_on_NNA > Re: <nettime> report_on_NNA > Re: <nettime> report_on_NNA > Re: <nettime> hear ye, hear ye... truce for NNA discussion > <nettime> calling all lurkers > Re: <nettime> report_on_NNA > Re: <nettime> report_on_NNA > Re: <nettime> hear ye, hear ye... truce for NNA discussion > <nettime> report_on_NNA > <nettime> The EU and democratic role for citizen? > Re: <nettime> report_on_NNA > RE: <nettime> NNA critical openings and closings > <nettime> report_on_NNA > Re: <nettime> calling all lurkers <...> # 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]