[-empyre-] The Metaversity

["Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>]

This is a productive and enjoyable discussion that I hope continues.

Education is the discussion of texts in groups, as well as the 
economies and Economics that enable the production, storage and 
discussion of texts in several kinds of collective and collaborative 
(or shall we say 'collegiate') ways.

 Its nice to see how early anticipations of the global/international/
world internetworking capabilities of these electronic media and communication, (some of the earliest approaches emphasising the 
textual over the 'multimedia' 'immersive' ideations of 'virtual 
reality' were at RMIT (Elizabeth Reid), are proven in an educational/curational environment and indeed (edcuational/artistic) marketing context (since the conference, the books of invited guests, 
as well as the nature of Blogging and its users, readers, producers, consumers, nodes and networks has become a little more clearly defined).

 Its great to see what some of us knew all along, despite tremendous
resistence to the idea from those whose power investments appeared threatened, that it is perfectly possible to discuss an object in a learning environment, in a rigorous way, :) , one that permits through maturity of approach and use, I suppose, the incorporation of the intermittent, the non sequitorial, the interruptive, the occasional 
and disruptive aspects of our everyday media and communication lives,
with other contexts and economies of education. 

I hope this object oriented online discussion of a Blog in the context 
of Blogs writ large, jill/txt, and video streaming format continues 
here and on other lists, in other contexts, as there are a 
range of questions technical, representational, art historical, 
economic and ethical, as well as several contexts in the politics 
of curation and education that have emerged and will no doubt inflect 
other debates here in this PLACE (the objects/texts help fix our bodies/positionalities in this space eh?) and in all of our places.

The production of questions and the economies for their inquiry is the 
work of the production and reproduction of knowledge, and its good to 
see openness in academic, artistic and critical inquiry here, while in 
other places these faculties appears to be in rather less demand than 
they were a few years ago.

Thanks Melinda, for the intelligent format and Adrian and Jill for 
helping to illuminate the field of digital culture.



Lachlan Brown

Toronto



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