Re: [-empyre-] nettime and alan, mez, nn.

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@transmediale.de>]

folks,

before you descend into nettime-bashing, i would suggest that we get 
some clarification on what has or has not been posted there, and why 
this is interesting for the current debate on empyre.

nettime has a long history - it was started in 1995 - and it has gone 
through many such discussions, and many transformations which have 
been alienating for some, while for others they have saved the list 
from falling into disarray.

a crucial question that has shown up around net-performers like mez 
and nn has been whether such lists should be open for the ongoing 
performance activities by individual artists, or whether these 
sometimes excessive activities disrupt the lists too much. think of 
the 711 list, or palais_tokyo, etc. i don't want to go into the old 
discussion of whatever happened to the original syndicate list, but i 
think it is worthwhile to check the kind of channel that develops 
when the performers take over: 
http://sympa.anart.no/sympa/info/syndicate

it is a matter of choice, whether you want that.

as far as i am concerned, nettime still offers interesting 
discussions which are mostly net/political, sometimes other.

http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0408/threads.html

the fact that Florian Cramer spent a few hours every week putting 
together the unstable digests is great.

http://www.netzliteratur.net/cramer/unstable_html/

to reprimand him for stopping that in the middle of finishing his PhD 
thesis seems a bit awkward, given that it was voluntary work which i 
am sure alan or anyone could just continue if s/he thinks that it is 
important that it gets done.

best regards,

-a