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> From: Heiko Recktenwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Sensitive Issues
> Date: Friday, March 31, 2000 12:35 AM
>
> > Is it possible not to have a context? I don't see how it could be.
> > "Contextualization" would only be making the context explicit. In this
case,
> > analyzing and stating motives.
>
> Well, that is what "contextualisation" meens. But I think, we must be
> grown up enough, to take things for themselves. Like the pissoir in the
> museum. Did Duchamps, well, I am in another league ;-), make
> context "explicit" ?
>
> Please wake up.
>
Well, but the pissoir was not on the street corner (which is essentially
what the internet is)--the point of the pissoir was the context--a high art
type art show with a revolutionary edge.
Also, they exist in very different realms. The pissoir assaults only the
artworld; the daterape site proposes assaults on live human beings. Hate
material is different from "shocking" material.
Not particularly wanting to debate this, but there are 2 legitimate sides
here--
AK
