Re: nettime A Puff Piece on Wikipedia (Fwd)

2003-10-04 Thread Brian Holmes
Keith Hart writes about anonymity: So what's the point for nettimers or wikipedia? I have several in mind, but I prefer for now to ask you, dear reader, what you think it might be. I reckon (a little crudely I guess, but y'all know me by now) that the point will become obvious when someone has

Re: nettime A Puff Piece on Wikipedia (Fwd)

2003-10-04 Thread porculus
If Locke, Voltaire, Diderot, Montesquieu, and D'Alembert were all in the habit of publishing anonymously, why is it their names are so familiar (and attached to their writings,usually) some 250 years later? Was anonymity merely a ploy, with clues provided somehow for true authorship? In the

nettime New Media Education and Its Discontent

2003-10-04 Thread trebor scholz
New Media Education and Its Discontent ³Š home are the people for whom I take responsibility.² --Vilem Flusser in ³The Freedom of the Migrant² The Brazilian philosopher Vilem Flusser wrote much about the exile freely taking responsibility. I am in the fortunate position to enjoy