>>>> ³I'm not sure I feel like a citizen of the net. . it (citizen) [also}] means 'A person who is legally recognized as a member <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/member> of a state <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/state> , with associated rights and obligations¹ and I'm not sure I feel any of those things about the Net."
All true @Edward, all true but, I leave with you with the following Tweet I sent out yesterday (with some embellishment) : #netartizens <https://twitter.com/hashtag/netartizens?src=hash> : the #Internet <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Internet?src=hash> as our own self-proclaimed #nation <https://twitter.com/hashtag/nation?src=hash> not requiring hierarchical authority from above to be [granted the rights of] citizenship [of our own domain]. Once again, it gets back to the idea of the artist as modeler, breaking the status quo, the artist as illustrator of new ways of seeing the world. I'm not sure I feel like a citizen of the net. The word 'citizen' has the same root as 'city' and partly means 'living in a city or town'; it also means 'someone who lives in a state which is not a monarchy' - hence the French revolutionaries addressing each other as 'citizen' - but it also means 'A person who is legally recognized as a member <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/member> of a state <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/state> , with associated rights and obligations' (Wiktionary), and I'm not sure I feel any of those things about the Net. I do, on the other hand, feel a sense of community - a word which is connected both to 'communication' and 'common' - a sense of sharing and fellowship - but not with everyone else on the Net, or with all other parts of the Net, just with certain circles or associations in which I have become involved, like Furtherfield and NetBehaviour. I'd like to put forward the word 'NetArtisans' as an alternative to 'NetArtizens', because I don't feel like a citizen of the net, but I do feel like someone who takes material off the net and tries to hand-make new artefacts out of it (if you can call mucking around with bits of software hand-making). - Edward _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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