actually I think just the opposite - the new forms of social media - wipe out public spaces - they privatize them - no one exchanges ideas - Listserv's are the closest that the internet ever came to creating a public space where one could almost have a discussion - what has happened to a great extent with this listerv is it has been turned into a series of private conversations - it is not a place of inquiry - no one any longer stops by to requist some expertise or insight - or to resolve a problem - instead each person recycles their pet peeve as if it were face book- in other words unlike frameworks, or the Spectre, etc this listserv seemingly has stopped being public space
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:45 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote: > Has the time passed for lists such as this one? Have twitter and other > modes of > communication all but suffocated the value of a list that is supposedly > dedicated to thoughtful commentary? It looks that way to me but I am not > up to > date with the technology involved. > > I think it's a shame if lists like aesthetics disappear under the waves of > quicker, sound-bite communication. Something very valuable is being lost. > Or, maybe our listers have just grown tired of thoughtful, crafted > communication. After all, if you write a whole sentence some sort of > grammatical order must be used. But when you write forty letters of the > alphabet, oops, my limit is passed. > > wc > > S a u l O s t r o w *Critical Voices* 21STREETPROJECTS La Table Ronde 162 West 21 Street NYC, NY 10011 [email protected] www.21stprojects.org
