Re: An external boundary; a circuit.

[Catriona Black]

Title: Re: <ambit> An external boundary; a circuit.

It's worked the other way round for me - I'm in a diverse range of lists, and frequently get postings 3 times, but one time recently there was an unexpected crossposting which really surprised me, as if the North Pole and the South Pole had somehow momentarily collided.  That's when life and art gets really interesting - I wonder if it's possible to rig some sort of network of lists, where each day, or each week, you're hooked into some other, unassociated list, to see a new world from the inside?  Anarchy?  Voyeurism?  Eye-opening?  Or just irritating?

Catriona

From: "gair dunlop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

the above being a definition of "ambit"
the idea of being "entrenched in cyberculture" takes on interesting connotations.
I wonder if it's worth thinking about who ambit people are?
who amongst us is embedded deeply in a network of different lists, boards, groups etc?
And if we are, what are the downsides of this: we think we're getting a diversity of viewpoints but they are a self re-inforcing circuit. If we get touchy about things being forwarded that "everybody knows/has seen already" then we're making a lot of assumptions about who "we" are and become a self-perpetuating elite...