Re: [-empyre-] publishing

[Danny Butt <db@dannybutt.net>]

Kia ora Geert / all

The point of electronic communications for me is that they make publication
(i.e. making public) of material more conversational and the exchanges more
explicit and immediate. So as Tobias suggests I don't see a hard line to be
drawn between lists and publishing. Isn't the whole point of academic
publication for example based around dialogue and info exchange, even if the
form made that dialogue difficult?

Anyway, I treat many (but not all) of my long posts to lists as publication
- they're made relatively public, and they're not warmups for any other
"real publishing", but on lists it's a bit clearer who the audience is
(although, many people find work via archives who are not subscribers to the
lists). Ideally it's publishing, info-exchange, and dialogue - all at once.

x.d

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On 8/17/04 8:52 PM, "geert" <geert@desk.nl> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> to turn a nettime posting afterwards into a publication does not make
> each posting or txt or response automatically into a publication. to
> turn lists into publication channels to me has always meant the death of
> that channel and even that medium. many people are not interested in
> publishing and prefer dialogue and info exchange, in whatever way,
> including txts. nettime publications were always edited, the posting to
> the list are not, that's another difference.
> 
> geert
> 
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