ed phillips (by way of pit@contrib.de (Pit Schultz)) on Sun, 9 Mar 97 05:37 MET |
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nettime: Whose goofy leftist? |
"If you'll be my bodyguard, I'll be your long lost pal." I've missed the food fight on the Well; I'm not a member. As a reader of nettime, I've watched some of the wrangling through the refractions of x-posting and rumor. I understand, through rumor, that humble lower case edphil has come in for some jibes. Perhaps Well members can post x-posts somewhere so that those who are receiving such jibes may at least see why their ears are turning red. I'm posting on Electric Minds because it is an open forum and has the potential for substantive discourse. Nettime is an excellent place to publish an essay, but conferencing systems are good places to swap information and references as well as hold conversations over time. I've enjoyed Mark Stahlman's contributions on eminds, and i'm happy to say that I have never accused him of "paranoia," a pathetic clinical term. I have no use for such diagnostical bludgeons. I have used Ricouer's term "hermeneutics of suspicion" ad nauseum to describe Mark's efforts at a historiography of cybernetics. I wish him the best in his writing efforts and look forward to his provocations and turns at poking the "hot tub." If my efforts at a "hermeneutics of retrieval" leave me open to charges of naivete and/or brainwashing, then that is the risk of taking the tack that I do. I'm plenty aware of the pitfalls of the court poet. I don't work for GBN, yet. <g> -- * 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