Hi Renée,
RE: I tend to make egregious typos & grammatical mistakes that I don't catch 
until it's about a week later. 
Same with me, i'm dyslexic and much prefer making and programming as a way to 
understand the world. On social media, particularly Twitter, I've learnt not to 
worry so much, though Nettime is a more intimidating space... 
Tom 


On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, at 6:20 AM, Renée Lynn Reizman wrote:
> Been a lurker on here for about 2 years. I am constantly thrilled by the 
> names I see popping up on this listserv. Seems like there are many members on 
> here who write or create things I admire. The conversations can be a bit 
> intimidating sometimes, but mostly I avoid chiming in because I tend to make 
> egregious typos & grammatical mistakes that I don't catch until it's about a 
> week later. 
> 
> Anyways, just wanted to say hello!
> 
> Renée
> http://www.reneereizman.com
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 9:51 AM <nettime-l-requ...@mail.kein.org> wrote:
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>>  Message: 1
>>  Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2019 12:47:10 -0400
>>  From: v...@voyd.com
>>  To: nettime-l@mail.kein.org
>>  Subject: Re: <nettime> Nettime is in bad shape. Let's see if we can
>>  change it.
>>  Message-ID:
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>>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  Thanks, Sean and all for these salient replies.
>>  I have often been active here, but had been offline more than I like 
>> related to living in Arabia; some things you'd imagine, others not. More 
>> than anything else, I have been creating a VR research center and doing a 
>> snowstorm of paperwork. My intentions are to be here more, as my research is 
>> revving up again.
>> 
>>  I value Nettime a great deal in that it remains one of the places where a 
>> high concentration of fine minds, whether they pop in or out like virtual 
>> particles int he cyber-aether, usually pop out clear thought.
>> 
>>  Another thing is that for the past three years, I have been traveling into 
>> Central Asia, Married an Iranian, coming to know the Eastern Hemisphere, and 
>> seeing what Geert Lovink and I had long discussions on here in Abu Dhabi 
>> relating the slide of Krokerian Bimodernism to American global colonial war 
>> capitalism under the Plan for the New American Century to the collapse into 
>> spheres of influence with the rise of Trump.&nbsp; Actually a lot more than 
>> this, but the flood of understanding has taken a while to coalesce.
>> 
>>  Looking forward to more conversation.
>> 
>> 
>>  On Sat, 8 Jun 2019 15:21:58 +0000, Sean Cubitt wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  I've been active long ago, and lurking for a decade or more, with only 
>> sporadic comments and adds: this look like a good prod to get us silent 
>> majority out of the closet.
>> 
>>  &nbsp;
>> 
>>  the thing that keeps nettime valuable is a) the 
>> contributors,&nbsp;timeliness, and&nbsp;swift smart dialogues and b) that 
>> there still seems to be a common purpose.&nbsp;
>> 
>>  &nbsp;
>> 
>>  social media start taking the forefront about ten years ago. The 
>> neo-populist right begins to replace the neo-liberal right about ten years 
>> ago. Is there some shared diagram?&nbsp;
>> 
>>  &nbsp;
>> 
>>  Other lists died for their own reasons: one because it seemed like 
>> everything interesting was on blogs, back when the blogosphere was a thing. 
>> Another because a concept / art movement / political trajectory could be 
>> exhausted so fast it scarcely seemed worth inventing new concepts etc.&nbsp;
>> 
>>  &nbsp;
>> 
>>  Mailing lists are asynchronous, which is great: more time to think; less 
>> kudos for fast reaction times. More consideration in every sense of the word
>> 
>>  &nbsp;
>> 
>>  in a few days I'll try to post something closer than this reflection on the 
>> medium to what I think this list is for: the aesthetics,&nbsp;politics 
>> and&nbsp;aesthetic&nbsp;politics of the early C21st --&nbsp;consideration, 
>> wonder and hope
>> 
>>  &nbsp;
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  Sean
>> 
>>  &nbsp;
>> 
>>  &nbsp;
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> change&nbsp;&nbsp; it.
>>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (John Preston)
>>  &nbsp;&nbsp; 2. The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors;
>>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; throws in the towel (Bruce Sterling)
>>  &nbsp;&nbsp; 3. Re: Nettime is in bad shape. Let's see if we can 
>> change&nbsp;&nbsp; it.
>>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (John Preston)
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>> 
>>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>>  Message: 1
>>  Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 15:06:56 +0100
>>  From: John Preston &lt;wcerf...@riseup.net 
>> <mailto:lt%3bwcerf...@riseup.net>&gt;
>>  To: nettime-l@mail.kein.org
>>  Subject: Re: &lt;nettime&gt; Nettime is in bad shape. Let's see if we can
>>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; change&nbsp; it.
>>  Message-ID: &lt;07a59428-bf8f-419b-841a-ea06bddb2...@riseup.net 
>> <mailto:lt%3b07a59428-bf8f-419b-841a-ea06bddb2...@riseup.net>&gt;
>>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>> 
>>  Just forwarding this up.
>> 
>> 
>>  -------- Original Message --------
>>  From: Karim Brohi &lt;ka...@trauma.org <mailto:lt%3bka...@trauma.org>&gt;
>>  Sent: 8 June 2019 14:35:45 BST
>>  To: John Preston &lt;wcerf...@riseup.net 
>> <mailto:lt%3bwcerf...@riseup.net>&gt;
>>  Subject: Re: &lt;nettime&gt; Nettime is in bad shape. Let's see if we can 
>> change it.
>> 
>>  Nettime is in bad shape - as are most (all?) of the email based discussion
>>  groups on the Interwebs now.
>>  I run another mailing list, started in 1995 in a medical specialty area- -
>>  which finds itself in the same state.&nbsp; Back then email was cool.&nbsp; 
>> Now, for
>>  most, email tends to be a flood of work stuff and a pseudo todo list.
>>  Drafting an email is now work, and not associated with pleasure or pure
>>  intellectual pursuit.
>> 
>>  But there's no other suitable medium either.&nbsp; Social media platforms 
>> are
>>  too brief to develop ideas.&nbsp; Too easy to fire back "your idea is 
>> stupid".
>>  Blog posts and newsletters are too one-sided.&nbsp; Developed/owned by a
>>  specific individual/group of individuals, Comments never have the same
>>  precedence as the original post.&nbsp; The post 'belongs' to the 
>> originator, not
>>  to the community.
>> 
>>  Maybe usenet/google groups comes close, but nobody uses them - perhaps
>>  because there's no (effective) 'app for that', and there has to be an
>>  active process of logging in.&nbsp; (Email alerts end up in... email).
>> 
>>  In brief - I think it's the medium not the message.&nbsp; The whole Internet
>>  needs a new medium that encourages long-form discourse and thereby deep
>>  community.&nbsp; That was email, but now it isn't email.&nbsp; I don't know 
>> what&nbsp; is
>>  now.
>> 
>>  Karim
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 21:34, John Preston &lt;wcerf...@riseup.net 
>> <mailto:lt%3bwcerf...@riseup.net>&gt; wrote:
>> 
>>  &gt; Just adding my two cents, as per the call. :)
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; I only discovered nettime in the last few months. I'm a computer-child,
>>  &gt; I've grown up on the net, and one of the people who now take a more
>>  &gt; conservative or critical approach to tech. I came here because I am 
>> trying
>>  &gt; to develop as an artist, working with the net as a medium and 
>> reflecting
>>  &gt; critically on the net and its constituent parts. I don't post in to 
>> every
>>  &gt; thread because a lot of the time I don't have anything worthwhile to 
>> add,
>>  &gt; but I appreciate reading: most of the contributions on this list are 
>> really
>>  &gt; insightful.
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; The fact that people are posting meta threads like this is a good sign 
>> to
>>  &gt; me, I appreciate a community that can take a critical view of itself. 
>> If
>>  &gt; nettime does rap up, let me know where you all go, I'd like to talk 
>> more. :)
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; John
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; On 7 June 2019 18:38:46 BST, nettime mod squad &lt;nett...@kein.org 
>> <mailto:lt%3bnett...@kein.org>&gt; wrote:
>>  &gt;&gt;
>>  &gt;&gt; Nettime is in bad shape, don't you think?
>>  &gt;&gt;
>>  &gt;&gt; It has still a lot of goodwill, and more generally there's renewed
>>  &gt;&gt; interest in formats of exchange and collective thinking that
>>  &gt;&gt; aren't defined by the logic of social media. But the dynamics that
>>  &gt;&gt; social media companies exploit are hardly limited to a handful of
>>  &gt;&gt; platforms. For example, nettime has its own 'influencers' -- a 1%,
>>  &gt;&gt; so to speak -- who generate the vast majority of list traffic.
>>  &gt;&gt; That's been true for years. The discussions they sustain may
>>  &gt;&gt; variously seem interesting or annoying, but either way they've
>>  &gt;&gt; become somewhat formulaic. An attentive reader knows more or less
>>  &gt;&gt; what to expect based solely the subject and the sender; and even
>>  &gt;&gt; meta-discussions about whether the list is dominated or by this or
>>  &gt;&gt; that tendency are largely dominated by the same few people.
>>  &gt;&gt;
>>  &gt;&gt; Some might argue the debates that have animated nettime over the
>>  &gt;&gt; last year -- the trajectories of postwar society, neoliberalism,
>>  &gt;&gt; the 'digital,' complexity, surveillance and big tech, Brexit,
>>  &gt;&gt; media and elections, Assange, even the Anthropocene in all its
>>  &gt;&gt; terrifying inclusiveness -- are the defining issues of the day.
>>  &gt;&gt; Maybe so. But if the nettime project had settled for a consensus
>>  &gt;&gt; model of the defining issues of the mid-'90s, it would never have
>>  &gt;&gt; gotten off the ground, and it certainly wouldn't exist almost 25
>>  &gt;&gt; years later. The challenge, we think, is to maintain a space that
>>  &gt;&gt; attracts ill-defined ideas and uncertain issues -- things and
>>  &gt;&gt; not-things that don't quite exist yet and yet haven't been buried
>>  &gt;&gt; under torrents of authority and theory.
>>  &gt;&gt;
>>  &gt;&gt; So, what can we do?
>>  &gt;&gt;
>>  &gt;&gt; In the past, we've asked people to think about outreach -- say,
>>  &gt;&gt; inviting new people from new contexts. It seems like that's had
>>  &gt;&gt; limited success; but at a time when nettime has been limping
>>  &gt;&gt; along, it's hard to get excited about inviting people to join an
>>  &gt;&gt; environment so heavily defined by habit. We've also joked that
>>  &gt;&gt; shutting it down before it fades into complete senescence might be
>>  &gt;&gt; best. But that joke wasn't really funny, in part because it wasn't
>>  &gt;&gt; meant to be: it was a way of expressing serious concerns about the
>>  &gt;&gt; list's increasingly parochial status.
>>  &gt;&gt;
>>  &gt;&gt; Now, we have a simple proposal: let's switch roles.
>>  &gt;&gt;
>>  &gt;&gt; It goes like this:
>>  &gt;&gt;
>>  &gt;&gt; If you've posted more than others to the list in the last 60 or 90
>>  &gt;&gt; or 120 or 180 days -- the math matters less than the spirit -- take
>>  &gt;&gt; a break. Let others define nettime, a space made up of nearly 5000
>>  &gt;&gt; subscribers.
>>  &gt;&gt;
>>  &gt;&gt; If you haven't posted to the list -- say, because it seemed like
>>  &gt;&gt; your ideas, concerns, or whatever you want to share wouldn't fit
>>  &gt;&gt; with nettime's habits -- maybe that will change.
>>  &gt;&gt;
>>  &gt;&gt; Think of it as an un-grand experiment: a way to see what else
>>  &gt;&gt; might happen, who else might speak, what less familiar ideas,
>>  &gt;&gt; perspectives, or styles might spring up. Maybe the list will fade
>>  &gt;&gt; into silence, and we'll be left with a paradoxical object, a list
>>  &gt;&gt; composed *entirely* of lurkers -- not such a bad non-end for
>>  &gt;&gt; nettime. Or maybe not. There might be many ways to find out. For
>>  &gt;&gt; now, rather than the 1% debating how narrowly to define good
>>  &gt;&gt; manners, let's see if a different 'we' can change things.
>>  &gt;&gt;
>>  &gt;&gt;
>>  &gt;&gt; -- the mod squad (Ted and Felix)
>>  &gt;&gt;
>>  &gt;&gt; #&nbsp; distributed via &lt;nettime&gt;: no commercial use without 
>> permission
>>  &gt;&gt; #&nbsp; &lt;nettime&gt;&nbsp; is a moderated mailing list for net 
>> criticism,
>>  &gt;&gt; #&nbsp; collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the 
>> nets
>>  &gt;&gt; #&nbsp; more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l
>>  &gt;&gt <http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l&gt;&gt>; #&nbsp; 
>> archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
>>  &gt;&gt; #&nbsp; @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in 
>> Subject:
>>  &gt;&gt;
>>  &gt;&gt; #&nbsp; distributed via &lt;nettime&gt;: no commercial use without 
>> permission
>>  &gt; #&nbsp; &lt;nettime&gt;&nbsp; is a moderated mailing list for net 
>> criticism,
>>  &gt; #&nbsp; collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
>>  &gt; #&nbsp; more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l
>>  &gt <http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l&gt>; #&nbsp; archive: 
>> http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
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>>  Message: 2
>>  Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2019 16:21:37 +0200
>>  From: Bruce Sterling &lt;bru...@well.com <mailto:lt%3bbru...@well.com>&gt;
>>  To: nettim...@kein.org
>>  Subject: &lt;nettime&gt; The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate
>>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; sponsors; throws in the towel
>>  Message-ID: &lt;a342ce24-4f26-441e-bdbe-38f833458...@well.com 
>> <mailto:lt%3ba342ce24-4f26-441e-bdbe-38f833458...@well.com>&gt;
>>  Content-Type: text/plain;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; charset=utf-8
>> 
>>  *Well, so much for the O?Reilly Web 2.0 version of popular mechanics.&nbsp; 
>> Fifteen years is not too bad a run by the standards of an increasingly 
>> jittery California Ideology.&nbsp; Now what? ? Bruce S
>> 
>> 
>>  Maker Media goes broke
>> https://hackaday.com/2019/06/07/maker-media-ceases-operations/
>> 
>>  Over the years we?ve had the dubious honor of bidding farewell to numerous 
>> companies that held a special place in the hearts of hackers and makers. 
>> We?ve borne witness to the demise of Radio Shack, TechShop, and PrintrBot, 
>> and even shed a tear or two when Toys ?R? Us shut their doors. But as much 
>> as it hurt to see those companies go, nothing quite compares to this. Today 
>> we?ve learned that Maker Media has ceased operations.
>> 
>>  Between the first issue of Make magazine in 2005 and the inaugural Maker 
>> Faire a year later, Maker Media deftly cultured the public face of the 
>> ?maker movement? for over a decade. They didn?t create maker culture, but 
>> there?s no question that they put a spotlight on this part of the larger 
>> tech world. In fact, it?s not an exaggeration to say that the shuttering of 
>> Maker Media could have far reaching consequences that we won?t fully 
>> understand for years.
>> 
>>  While this news will surely come as a crushing blow to many in the 
>> community, Maker Media founder and CEO Dale Dougherty says they?re still 
>> trying to put the pieces together. ?I started the magazine and I?m committed 
>> to keeping that going because it means something to a lot of people and 
>> means something to me.? At this point, Dale tells us that Maker Media is 
>> officially in a state of insolvency. This is an important distinction, and 
>> means that the company still has a chance to right the ship before being 
>> forced to declare outright bankruptcy.
>> 
>>  In layman?s terms, the fate of Make magazine and Maker Faire is currently 
>> uncertain?
>> 
>>  ***
>> 
>> https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/07/make-magazine-maker-media-layoffs/
>> 
>>  Financial troubles have forced Maker Media, the company behind crafting 
>> publication MAKE: magazine as well as the science and art festival Maker 
>> Faire, to lay off its entire staff of 22 and pause all operations. 
>> TechCrunch was tipped off to Maker Media?s unfortunate situation which was 
>> then confirmed by the company?s founder and CEO Dale Dougherty.
>> 
>>  For 15 years, MAKE: guided adults and children through step-by-step 
>> do-it-yourself crafting and science projects, and it was central to the 
>> maker movement. Since 2006, Maker Faire?s 200 owned and licensed events per 
>> year in over 40 countries let attendees wander amidst giant, inspiring art 
>> and engineering installations?.
>> 
>>  ?Maker Media Inc ceased operations this week and let go of all of its 
>> employees ? about 22 employees? Dougherty tells TechCrunch. ?I started this 
>> 15 years ago and it?s always been a struggle as a business to make this 
>> work. Print publishing is not a great business for anybody, but it 
>> works?barely. Events are hard ? there was a drop off in corporate 
>> sponsorship.? Microsoft and Autodesk failed to sponsor this year?s flagship 
>> Bay Area Maker Faire?.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  ------------------------------
>> 
>>  Message: 3
>>  Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 07:45:08 -0700
>>  From: John Preston &lt;wcerf...@riseup.net 
>> <mailto:lt%3bwcerf...@riseup.net>&gt;
>>  To: nettime-l@mail.kein.org
>>  Subject: Re: &lt;nettime&gt; Nettime is in bad shape. Let's see if we can
>>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; change&nbsp; it.
>>  Message-ID: &lt;f8f8006bb46447a36e1e1a7d5171f...@riseup.net 
>> <mailto:lt%3bf8f8006bb46447a36e1e1a7d5171f...@riseup.net>&gt;
>>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>> 
>>  Each medium of communication has a different quality and bandwidth about
>>  it, and we can use a multitude of media -- nettime doesn't have to be
>>  /just/ a mailing list. Some of us might be better able to contribute via
>>  IRC or other more real-time media.
>> 
>>  John
>> 
>>  On 2019-06-08 15:06, John Preston wrote:
>> 
>>  &gt; Just forwarding this up.
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; -------------------------
>>  &gt; FROM: Karim Brohi &lt;ka...@trauma.org 
>> <mailto:lt%3bka...@trauma.org>&gt;
>>  &gt; SENT: 8 June 2019 14:35:45 BST
>>  &gt; TO: John Preston &lt;wcerf...@riseup.net 
>> <mailto:lt%3bwcerf...@riseup.net>&gt;
>>  &gt; SUBJECT: Re: &lt;nettime&gt; Nettime is in bad shape. Let's see if we 
>> can change it.
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; Nettime is in bad shape - as are most (all?) of the email based 
>> discussion groups on the Interwebs now.
>>  &gt; I run another mailing list, started in 1995 in a medical specialty 
>> area- - which finds itself in the same state.&nbsp; Back then email was 
>> cool.&nbsp; Now, for most, email tends to be a flood of work stuff and a 
>> pseudo todo list.&nbsp; Drafting an email is now work, and not associated 
>> with pleasure or pure intellectual pursuit.
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; But there's no other suitable medium either.&nbsp; Social media 
>> platforms are too brief to develop ideas.&nbsp; Too easy to fire back "your 
>> idea is stupid".&nbsp; Blog posts and newsletters are too one-sided.&nbsp; 
>> Developed/owned by a specific individual/group of individuals, Comments 
>> never have the same precedence as the original post.&nbsp; The post 
>> 'belongs' to the originator, not to the community.
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; Maybe usenet/google groups comes close, but nobody uses them - perhaps 
>> because there's no (effective) 'app for that', and there has to be an active 
>> process of logging in.&nbsp; (Email alerts end up in... email).
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; In brief - I think it's the medium not the message.&nbsp; The whole 
>> Internet needs a new medium that encourages long-form discourse and thereby 
>> deep community.&nbsp; That was email, but now it isn't email.&nbsp; I don't 
>> know what&nbsp; is now.
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; Karim
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 21:34, John Preston &lt;wcerf...@riseup.net 
>> <mailto:lt%3bwcerf...@riseup.net>&gt; wrote:
>>  &gt; Just adding my two cents, as per the call. :)
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; I only discovered nettime in the last few months. I'm a 
>> computer-child, I've grown up on the net, and one of the people who now take 
>> a more conservative or critical approach to tech. I came here because I am 
>> trying to develop as an artist, working with the net as a medium and 
>> reflecting critically on the net and its constituent parts. I don't post in 
>> to every thread because a lot of the time I don't have anything worthwhile 
>> to add, but I appreciate reading: most of the contributions on this list are 
>> really insightful.
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; The fact that people are posting meta threads like this is a good sign 
>> to me, I appreciate a community that can take a critical view of itself. If 
>> nettime does rap up, let me know where you all go, I'd like to talk more. :)
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; John
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; On 7 June 2019 18:38:46 BST, nettime mod squad &lt;nett...@kein.org 
>> <mailto:lt%3bnett...@kein.org>&gt; wrote:
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; Nettime is in bad shape, don't you think?
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; It has still a lot of goodwill, and more generally there's renewed
>>  &gt; interest in formats of exchange and collective thinking that
>>  &gt; aren't defined by the logic of social media. But the dynamics that
>>  &gt; social media companies exploit are hardly limited to a handful of
>>  &gt; platforms. For example, nettime has its own 'influencers' -- a 1%,
>>  &gt; so to speak -- who generate the vast majority of list traffic.
>>  &gt; That's been true for years. The discussions they sustain may
>>  &gt; variously seem interesting or annoying, but either way they've
>>  &gt; become somewhat formulaic. An attentive reader knows more or less
>>  &gt; what to expect based solely the subject and the sender; and even
>>  &gt; meta-discussions about whether the list is dominated or by this or
>>  &gt; that tendency are largely dominated by the same few people.
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; Some might argue the debates that have animated nettime over the
>>  &gt; last year -- the trajectories of postwar society, neoliberalism,
>>  &gt; the 'digital,' complexity, surveillance and big tech, Brexit,
>>  &gt; media and elections, Assange, even the Anthropocene in all its
>>  &gt; terrifying inclusiveness -- are the defining issues of the day.
>>  &gt; Maybe so. But if the nettime project had settled for a consensus
>>  &gt; model of the defining issues of the mid-'90s, it would never have
>>  &gt; gotten off the ground, and it certainly wouldn't exist almost 25
>>  &gt; years later. The challenge, we think, is to maintain a space that
>>  &gt; attracts ill-defined ideas and uncertain issues -- things and
>>  &gt; not-things that don't quite exist yet and yet haven't been buried
>>  &gt; under torrents of authority and theory.
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; So, what can we do?
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; In the past, we've asked people to think about outreach -- say,
>>  &gt; inviting new people from new contexts. It seems like that's had
>>  &gt; limited success; but at a time when nettime has been limping
>>  &gt; along, it's hard to get excited about inviting people to join an
>>  &gt; environment so heavily defined by habit. We've also joked that
>>  &gt; shutting it down before it fades into complete senescence might be
>>  &gt; best. But that joke wasn't really funny, in part because it wasn't
>>  &gt; meant to be: it was a way of expressing serious concerns about the
>>  &gt; list's increasingly parochial status.
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; Now, we have a simple proposal: let's switch roles.
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; It goes like this:
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; If you've posted more than others to the list in the last 60 or 90
>>  &gt; or 120 or 180 days -- the math matters less than the spirit -- take
>>  &gt; a break. Let others define nettime, a space made up of nearly 5000
>>  &gt; subscribers.
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; If you haven't posted to the list -- say, because it seemed like
>>  &gt; your ideas, concerns, or whatever you want to share wouldn't fit
>>  &gt; with nettime's habits -- maybe that will change.
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; Think of it as an un-grand experiment: a way to see what else
>>  &gt; might happen, who else might speak, what less familiar ideas,
>>  &gt; perspectives, or styles might spring up. Maybe the list will fade
>>  &gt; into silence, and we'll be left with a paradoxical object, a list
>>  &gt; composed *entirely* of lurkers -- not such a bad non-end for
>>  &gt; nettime. Or maybe not. There might be many ways to find out. For
>>  &gt; now, rather than the 1% debating how narrowly to define good
>>  &gt; manners, let's see if a different 'we' can change things.
>>  &gt;
>>  &gt; -- the mod squad (Ted and Felix)
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