nettime Peace offer snubbed as Nettime Brouhaha approaches third week

2006-10-19 Thread Danny Butt
ANYTOWN, U.S. (AP) - In a dramatic move to end the 'Nettime Brouhaha', listmember James Smith today sent a private email rather than publicly continuing the conflict over gender issues, which is now entering its third week. The email, sent to a number of recent contributors, expressed

Re: nettime WayneFUD

2006-10-11 Thread Danny Butt
On 12/10/2006, at 3:23 AM, Wayne Myers wrote: Suppose Kali Tal were just Sondheim playing. Wayne, There is a nettime history of Alan Sondheim and Kali Tal outside of this particular discussion; there is an Internet outside of nettime where those names have a history, and a world outside

nettime Re: feminisms

2006-10-11 Thread Danny Butt
On 12/10/2006, at 5:35 AM, Benjamin Geer wrote: If you like, take my comment as a reflection on one man's experience of the feminist discourse that seemed to be in the air in American universities in the 1980s and 90s, rather than on feminism as a whole Ben, you might find the work of

Re: nettime Gender and You

2006-10-09 Thread Danny Butt
Let's try this another way. Alan, you forwarded a piece called Gender and You to an overwhelmingly male list. If you're that interested in gender, maybe you'd familiarise yourself with a few decades of feminist philosophy and criticism (empirically the largest body of work on gender issues) and

Re: nettime Arun Mehta: Unpacking Internet Governance

2005-04-16 Thread Danny Butt
I know many on this list will be aware of the various technical and factual inaccuracies in Mehta's piece (WiFi vs Bluetooth? a new one on me), even outside of the techno-determinist rhetoric and unhelpful equation of governance==government. Two alternative sources below that I think give a

nettime Some notes on visiting Sarai, Delhi, December 2003

2004-03-03 Thread Danny Butt
Kia ora all I had hoped to deal with my visit to Sarai in a more substantial way, but haven't had time and so thought I should just forward something that makes the the main point. Danny The high-tech is an epistemological constraint I want to escape. That's the secret of

nettime Re: Report: Creative Labour and the role of Intellectual Property

2003-10-09 Thread Danny Butt
There's a lot to digest in Ned's excellent report on Creative Labour, and I'll be sifting through the correlations between the multitudes and disorganised creative labour for some time. Even if Ned's somewhat cavalier methodological orientation grates a little up against Hall et al's classic