Happy Lurker agrees. nathaniel stern http://nathanielstern.com
> On Jun 12, 2021, at 9:03 AM, Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour > <netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > > Dear everyone, > > Thanks so much for helping me to work through some of my niggles with the > list. I now have a much better sense of what its value is to some of us at > the fireside and a few of the people from the woods. I've also been greatly > enjoying the recent exchanges! > > I also found Adam's email beautiful. Especially personally resonant because I > lived for a year in Penryn unaware of the history of the Ordinalia there. I > find the format of passion plays - "acts" of faith "performed" by people in > the places where they belong - enthralling.Thanks for that Adam! > > Annie's response was also really helpful for me. The revolutionary impulse of > the early media art initiatives that interested me was tied up with > infrastructural critique and a desire to create a new art context together. > This revolved around efforts to create open access, and co-ownership of the > media and platforms we needed for collaboration. Bringing together FLOSS and > Art. There is still a lot of inspiring work in this area Constant > https://constantvzw.org/ <https://constantvzw.org/> for example. > > While I "get" the Occupy vibe here, it doesn't feel so useful as an analogy > for this list/community as it stands at the moment. Occupy's central > commitment was to participatory democracy. The location of occupations were > chosen for their symbolic significance to state-corporate capitalism, right? > I guess we could think of this list as a prefigurative community resisting > corporate platforms (I share everyone's love of this as an advertising-free > space). But I detect less interest among this group in the question of how > bottom-up decisions should be made to ensure fair distribution of power, and > how that might in turn lead to the overthrow of capitalism. Occupy activists > developed social technologies (some digital platforms, some gestures and > techniques for use in large groups of people gathered physically) to make ALL > the decisions together about all the things - from collective vision to > organising waste-disposal. It's more emergent here. > > If we can agree that Commons are "shared cultural or material resources > managed by communities for individual and collective benefit" then maybe this > is what we have been working out here over the last couple of weeks and > Netbehaviour is a kind of commons. If we can agree that we (all subscribers) > collectively own this place, and are willing to reflect on this occasionally > - that's more than enough for me. We can stay with furtherfield legacy > infrastructure and near-zero moderation by Marc and me for now (if that suits > everyone). > > Finally, I would be curious to hear your feelings about this proposal for > list renewal. > ======================= > > Over a 1 month period starting xxx > We invite all subscribers to do one of 3 things > > 1. Make a post on any topic or responding to anyone else's post > 2. Send an email with "Happy Lurker" in the subject header > 3. Do nothing. > > At the end of this time, moderators could > 1. gather a list of everyone who posted > 2. unsubscribe everyone else. > > In this way we will know who we are, we will be able to see ourselves > collectively and know who is in the woods. > > This is something we can do intermittently. > ======================== > If you all love, hate or have alternative suggestions to this idea I'd love > to know. > > warmly > Ruth > > -- > Ruth Catlow > she/her > Co-founder & Artistic director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts Lab > +44 (0) 77370 02879 > > *I will only agree to speak at events that are racially and gender balanced. > > **sending thanks > <https://www.ovoenergy.com/ovo-newsroom/press-releases/2019/november/think-before-you-thank-if-every-brit-sent-one-less-thank-you-email-a-day-we-would-save-16433-tonnes-of-carbon-a-year-the-same-as-81152-flights-to-madrid.html> > in advance > > Furtherfield disrupts and democratises art and technology through > exhibitions, labs & debate, for deep exploration, open tools & free thinking. > furtherfield.org <http://www.furtherfield.org/> > > DECAL Decentralised Arts Lab is an arts, blockchain & web 3.0 technologies > research hub > for fairer, more dynamic & connected cultural ecologies & economies now. > decal.is <http://www.decal.is/> > > Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company Limited by Guarantee > Registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205. > Registered business address: Carbon Accountancy, 80-83 Long Lane, London, > EC1A 9ET. > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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