[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Interview PLW

["Pieter" <smallaxe@xs4all.nl>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Armitage" <john.armitage@unn.ac.uk>
To: "'Pieter'" <smallaxe@xs4all.nl>; "nettime int"
<nettime-l@bbs.thing.net>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 9:06 AM
Subject: RE: <nettime> Interview PLW

> Isn't it about time we all stopped playing along with this silly game?
>Forthe record, PETER LAMBORN WILSON IS HAKIM BEY -- the 'Prince of
>Liteness'.

> John.

Well, no, quite the contrary I believe. Moreover, I haven't noticed "us
all" "playing along w/this silly game"; everywhere you look on the
internet or in zines, people seem to find it necessary to blurt out on
line 1 that the two are identical (a well-established fact by now I
should think). Then why use an alias at all? With all due respect and so
forth, I get the impression that this sort of thing has more to do with
the contributor's ego: Oh, but *I* know who he is, and now I'm gonna
tell you all.

For your bookkeeping, Sakhra -l'Assal hasn't quite been himself lately
either ;)

Best,

PB

"Nevertheless, there's the principle of the thing: secrets
should be respected. Not everyone needs to know everything! What the
20th century lacks most--& needs most--is tact. We wish to replace
democratic epistemology with ``dada epistemology'' (Feyerabend). Either
you're on the bus or you're not on the bus."

-- The Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade Collective, *Radio Sermonettes*


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