Hi Everyone, I think we need some guidance; both Ruth and Marc seem unhappy with Netbehaviour as it is. I'm not sure myself whether to post or not. Certainly calls could be put out to all the subscribers to indicate whether they want to continue as such or not. It's all about "as such or not" I think. Technically, Marc and Ruth are list-owners, I believe. Ultimately they're responsible for the direction of the list in the sense that any of us could be unsubscribed at the very least. There are times I've had to unsub people and that's always painful, as would be, at least for us, shutting the list down. I have no idea what to do. I find the situation hugely depressing. Netbehaviour may be derailing, certainly as a commons. And the longer this discussion is drawn out, the worse things will get, at least that's been my experience.
Meanwhile I keep writing/performing/worlding, whatever I do. Best, whatever that is, Alan On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 5:57 PM Johannes Birringer < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello all. shapeshifters! > > just watched Alan's video and also realized it may be the last one, as he > may not be posting his poetic writing and music here, anymore.... > so I watch it as the last one Alan! thank you.... > > The conversations about how we might shift this "net- behavior" and become > more attuned again to what Ruth and Marc may have imagined - > "a place for free and open artistic experimentation with networked media, > and community building" is very intriguing. I just reread the many > postings here, and am stimulated and confused, loving all the responses, > disagreeing with some......as it should be. I try to be short; Ruth's > parables of the forest (and our poor presence as merely "ethnographic > peculiarities") inspired me: >a campfire in some unmanaged ancient > woodland...>>......>>The woods around the campfire are full of watchers and > listeners (who knows who??)<< > > ...the analogies resonated with me, especially over the last 14 months in > a pandemic that made me leave academia and spend more time in the forest, > recording, performing, linking up, in the valley, with my village > community, inventing new rituals, listening to others and what they thought > the "latende Allmende" (latent commons, as Anna Tsing calls it in her book > on mushrooms and living in the ruins of capitalism) might be like. No one > knew exactly, but we talked, and took our masks off.... and walked along > the river [see pic] > > Well.. what is our "latende Allmende" going to be, with other (younger) > participants? do we know the age and gender of the members who post here? i > don't, and it never mattered, nor the the number of subscribers ("we don't > really know much about us") ? 643, 1625? 59? > is that true? > > well, if the commons are evoked, and Furherfield's new director, and new > policies or strategic aims (inclusivity, intersectionality, link to local > neighborhood) are mentioned in the organization's remit, now what exactly > do you want us to do, in our shapeshifting? Have we not actually been > engaged....learning/contributing "about what it means to aim for a commons > of diverse cultures in connected physical to digital realms. It requires > careful planning, partnership building and a lot of production work"...... > > yes, it does. and we do. > > > with warm regards > Johannes Birringer > > ________________________________________
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