>I think I'll just say that I have become post-postist. I hear about post-digital/New Media/Internet/Human/etc that I believe that this only succeeds at placing us in a corner of opposition or refusal and makes no suggestions. For all my distrust of it, at least New Aestheticism posited something. Surfing clubs did. Post-ing does not.
Post-ism paints us in the corner of refusal without proposition and little else. It breaks the discourse into a molecular one without any potential coherence; it is Babel-ism at its height, and paints the writer into a corner. I think it is some to begin framing new discourses not as "new" propositions, but as new propositions, like perhaps the age of convergence or integrationist, or mixed-reality art or even going back to intermedia. I am still a pluralist; not into master narratives, but I want propositions for the present, not mere refusnikism. I want something that says something, not just that "We're over that", because I'm over being over things. Patrick. # 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: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org