Ben: > Does it have to be this way?
Yes. The academia you describe is a BOOK culture (which arose in combat with a MANUSCRIPT culture) existing under the environmental conditions of a TELEVISION culture, which is now under assault by a BLOG culture. Figure out the FORMAL causalities of these four and the inter-relationships and you will begin to understand why NO individual actions can alter this CAUSALITY. It MUST be this way. No kidding, Mark Stahlman New York City # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
