Matthew Fuller on Fri, 7 Mar 97 14:09 MET |
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Re: nettime: Flash!! WIRED is Looking for an Ideology!! |
>So nettime posts are turning up on the well -- how curious. Perhaps >someone should repost stuff from the well that discusses stuff >from nettime, back on nettime. Then we can have a lively discussion of the >well's 'you own your own words' policy... Or even, start up some kind of trade-bloc war between a closed (The Well) and a relatively open (Nettime) gift economy? Whilst I don't particularly fancy having a daily dose of bitching on wired dumped into nettime - as critiquing / slagging this magazine is only really useful in terms of developing a keyhole through which wider conflicts and developments can be viewed - some of the material arising might be interesting. This reminds me that a friend mentioned, on returning from Imagina in Monte Carlo, the difference in approach to sharing technical information between US and other delegates to the conference. The former would only deliver set papers, whilst claimed >proprietary interests< demanded they couldn't answer questions - eventually annoying other delegates to the point of argument. What was the point of them being their exhibit to display their wares - as interlopers within a freer circuit of exchange? Surely not? In the end however, the only way one can ensure the non-leakage of precious thoughts is to write stuff that is totally useless so that no-one will want it - my prefered method - and one which is perhaps adopted as an extra measure by the well in it's use of the grateful dead conference as a kind of stealth cloak of dumbness? C'mon Brucie, rip off the mask. Reveal yourself to be the anarcho-communist love-octopus that you truly are. Otherwise I might just upload a .gif of the cover of the UK edition of Involution Ocean - a sight so gloriously rancourous that it blows even that disguise away. So, is there a defector ready to leak some of those precious trade secrets? Matthew -- * distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission * <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, * collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets * more info: majordomo@is.in-berlin.de and "info nettime" in the msg body * URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@is.in-berlin.de