dear all this month, all the floodgates have opened it seems, my mailbox can barely cope with the netbehaviors, Randall, that you so valiantly tried to collect (@BishopZ's mesh up also delighting a part of me), and I have no problem with the effort you make to moderate and synthesize, it's been such a lively stream, to look at....... and yet can't help feeling, and here I join Alan Sondheim, though a bit late, time has passed quickly, and I lost my cue, so can't help feeling I'm not needing to be part of your/a database world or its falsifying taxonomizing tools, and if we want to critique and discuss a notion such as nation, state formation, community here, or there, online social engagement, terror...... then the various expressions and postings, verbal visual, or musical, contribute something, but we'd need time, and now I've lost the initial point, was it an illusion of a tangible digital, or our labor as artisans on virtual grounds, the future ever-present past that we've lost, our wild preserve here, Randall you are up to something, a conference loom, distance wise? and what will you make of the database here, and all the intermedial audience actors there? "The Art of the Networked Practice" - a huge topic.....(for me also not necessarily only referring to online, but rather to work on the ground, primarily, bodies interacting and touching). I feel remote today, and anxious, that I cannot follow the flood.
regards Johannes Birringer ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Randall Packer [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2015 2:18 PM To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] A Behavior of Catalogs @BishopZ, your groupings are masterful, thank you! And @Isabel too for the pictorialization. The idea of a catalogue of social taxonomy of net behavior was not intended to categorize the participants, rather, it was an effort to identify (seriously & playfully) the various types of behaviors we (and everyone else) exhibit in our networked practices, online social engagement, and the socio-political perspectives we formulate from our net experiences. Our conversation over the first week was a richly layered collection of net behaviorisms: an opportunity for reflecting on these tendencies to better talk about them, analyze them, critique them, and understand them. None of us exhibit only one type of net behavior, whether it be cynicism, or poeticism, anger, or play: in our everyday lives we are all multi-textured individuals. In the world of database technology, the word category is synonymous with taxonomy, which is simply a tool for grouping concepts hierarchically. The hierarchical approach to sorting out concepts & ideas is fundamental to how we learn, analyze, and extract meaning & symbolic value. So categorization is a powerful means for conceptual reasoning: in this case I excavated our own utterances to assemble a list of tendencies in order to initiate a larger, constructive dialogue concerning the main topic of this discussion: netbehavior. So please excuse if any you thought you were being pigeon holed or unduly categorized, rather, it was my intent to use our discussion as a laboratory for critique, a sampling of comments from highly accomplished individuals of the networked practice to serve as a case study for our discussion concerning the impact of the net on the way we work, play, think and engage with one another. I look forward to the continuing conversation and of course your artistic renderings. Randall _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
