of course! looking forward to seeing how it develops and to participating... m.
--- On Wed, 10/21/09, marc garrett <[email protected]> wrote: > From: marc garrett <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] DIWO is back, but with a difference... > To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" > <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 2:07 PM > Hi Michael, > > I agree with much of what you say, and and very interested > in seeing how > it is explored by anyone on their terms local and > non-local, networked > or non-networked... > > I think that the ironies will be 'ironed' out (scuze pun) > as the process > of it all begins to expand, beyond the literature's remit > thus showing > alternative visions that take the theme yet in ways to > allow a > re-invention accordingly. > > I see that the DIWO aspect will bring light and > ideas/imagination to it > which conventional behaviours have not touched upon yet, > lets see... > > marc > > I'm sure this will be a really interesting project. > The last DIWO thing was great. I am glad, however, that > there is a question mark after the title. > > I find stuff like this (from the manifesto): > > > > "The idea of civilisation is entangled, right down to > its semantic roots, with city-dwelling, and this provokes a > thought: if our writers seem unable to find new stories > which might lead us through the times ahead, is this not a > function of their metropolitan mentality? The big names of > contemporary literature are equally at home in the > fashionable quarters of London or New York, and their > writing reflects the prejudices of the placeless, > transnational elite to which they belong." > > > > profoundly worrying. The privileging of the local (and > the imagined rural) in this way would have felt quite > uncontroversial to Heidegger and his more thuggish friends > and "metropolitan mentality and equally at home in ..London > and New York" has for me a close to the nerve echo of > "rootless cosmopolitanism" (Google it). > > > > I hope, furthemore, the irony of the call and much of > the subsequent work and discussion taking place on the > internet (which could only have meaning, let alone > exist, at a certain level of civilisation) isn't lost on > anyone. > > > > Of course none of that means it can't be a useful and > interesting starting point for work. Of course it is. Let's > keep our critical faculties sharp around any accompanying > discussion though. > > michael > > > > > > > > --- On Wed, 10/21/09, marc garrett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > >> From: marc garrett <[email protected]> > >> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] DIWO is back, but with > a difference... > >> To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed > creativity" <[email protected]> > >> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 1:17 PM > >> Hi Dave, > >> > >> Excellent - it's going to be a 'THRILLER'... > >> > >> An update on the press release for this project - > I will > >> not let the > >> outside world know about this till tomorrow > afternoon now. > >> > >> There are couple of other factors which need > ironing out > >> before then, > >> but I thought it would be useful to mention it > before the > >> intensity of > >> it all suddenly just happens. > >> > >> wishing you well. > >> > >> marc > >> > >>> great marc > >>> > >>> I'll do something! > >>> > >>> dave > >>> > >>> 2009/10/21 marc garrett <[email protected]>: > >>> > >>> > >>>> Hi Netnehaviourists, > >>>> > >>>> Well, DIWO is back again and as before, > anyone can > >>>> > >> get involved. > >> > >>>> All contributions will be shown at the > HTTP > >>>> > >> Gallery again - > >> > >>>> http://www.http.uk.net/ > >>>> > >>>> We will also have the same policy of open > curation > >>>> > >> like last time, where > >> > >>>> people can view hanging via a web cam and > chat on > >>>> > >> IRS, as well as other > >> > >>>> collaborators visiting the space on a > selected > >>>> > >> day. > >> > >>>> There are 2 extra elements this time as > well as > >>>> > >> the collaboration > >> > >>>> happening within the email list: > >>>> > >>>> 1 - we will be asking contributors to send > work > >>>> > >> via snail mail > >> > >>>> (traditional postage), as well as/or > alternately. > >>>> > >>>> And we have a theme this year: Do It With > Others > >>>> > >> at the Dark Mountain? > >> > >>>> Before taking part we are asking everyone > to read > >>>> > >> the Manifesto below: > >> > >>>> UNCIVILISATION THE DARK MOUNTAIN > MANIFESTO > >>>> http://www.dark-mountain.net/about-2/the-manifesto/ > >>>> > >>>> Then contribute with the theme in mind... > >>>> > >>>> We will be releasing a press release to > the rest > >>>> > >> of the world, and on > >> > >>>> this list later on. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> wishing you all well. > >>>> > >>>> marc > >>>> > >>>> > _______________________________________________ > >>>> NetBehaviour mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ > >>> NetBehaviour mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> NetBehaviour mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > NetBehaviour mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
