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It is interesting, to me, what you say, Renate, about the "chance to
wait and perhaps go back at a later time" in the light of Johannes's
predictables--leading somewhere--and perhaps missing the retrofitted
loco of linear history or listserv discussion. Why not sit this one out?
This thread, this post, this presidential tenure?
And earlier, Renate, I think you mentioned the potential for division
between theory and practice which has haunted the list (but is it eerie
or weird? something eerily absent? or weirdly present that ought not be
there?)
The choice would for me rather be between which response is active and
which one reactive, theory or practice, waiting or doing something, now
or later. (Some time ago I was developing software (suggestively, on
Rails) for exactly the sort of nonlinear discussion platform that would
support action at a distance of time, tagging renewal of interest in
past topics, new comments on old threads, and divorcing the active
theoretical or practical choice from the present; some government
support for establishing commercialisable IP, but insufficient funding
for development led to the idea being shelved.)
best,
Simon
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