Bruce Sterling on Tue, 3 Sep 2002 04:02:34 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Tranzis, Up Against the Wall |
*I don't want to hammer this thing into the ground like a circus tent-peg, but I have to wonder if there is *anybody* on nettime who *isn't* a tranzi. I mean, I wouldn't be at all upset if there was some Latvian nettimer who believed that Latvian national government, religion, ethnicity, costume, cuisine and folk music were all ultimate goods and that all multinational movements, governance bodies and social groups were somehow subversive. But *why* would such a person ever *want* to be on nettime? Why would he want a computer with a net connection? Why would he want to speak English, even? Why would he be here? How could he hear me? * If you are on nettime, and you loathe and fear tranzis, would you send me some private email enlightening me? I'm bruces@well.com and I promise not to bite. *Isn't the Internet itself the ultimate Tranzi organ? I mean, think about it. *And isn't an anti-Tranzi basically a nationalist in sentiment, and therefore a Nat-zi? But that coinage already seems taken. bruces From: "N Jett" njett@hotmail.com Reply To: njett@hotmail.com To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net Subject: <nettime> Tranzis (or, "i'm just a sweet transnational") Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 20:01:42 +0000 All we need now is a scary looking symbol to put on flags and armbands... http://www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=2002/8/30/121900 Nazis and Commies and Tranzis ... Oh My! Richard Poe Aug. 30, 2002 # 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: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net