Re: [-empyre-] seeking exteriority

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@uiah.fi>]

> i may have falsely assumed that jh was referring to the switch to 
> payment based subscriptions rather than free access + the 
> conversations that change created in terms of the [open/closed]ness 
> of rhizome.org + the attendant [agreements/contracts/conditions] of 
> those relationships.

yes, the general migration from something more open to something less 
open... or more distributed to more controlled...  the details about 
and opinions on that process are disagreed upon and such, but the 
general process seemed to be IMHO driven by non-distributed 
motivations in the wrong direction...

but also the attendant move/evolution towards a hegemonic structure 
that now 'dictates' or arbitrates the 'history of net art' to many 
except perhaps the actual participants...  the reification process 
that goes along with historicization.  imagine a mailing list that 
doesn't archive itself, a twiki that is erased each month, with a 
sole web page left over saying "error 404 -- you had to be there."

jh