Re: Latin as revolutionary act?

2019-11-10 Thread Garnet Hertz
Retreating into a dead language is the most idiotic thing I've heard in a while - unless this is a symbolic parody of how isolated much of the academic humanities is. Why not just stick w the outdated 1970s critical theory that everyone already regularly invokes? Garnet Hertz On Sun, Nov 10

Re: The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors; throws in the towel

2019-06-22 Thread Garnet Hertz
more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l >> # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org >> # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: >> >> >> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission >> #is a m

Re: The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors; throws in the towel

2019-06-18 Thread Garnet Hertz
l version of monetizing > making. By not welcoming (and also actively discouraging) a bunch of his > audience, he limited some of the scope of the Maker movement. > > --xx--xx-- > > Best wishes -- > > Geoff > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 04:02:26PM -0700, Garnet

Re: Periodizing With Control

2019-06-17 Thread Garnet Hertz
meone "on the ground", anyway. if you're uncomfortable with a > division of labor whereby academics do this and other people do other > stuff, take my and probably most other nettimers' lives as evidence that > such a division is not fixed > > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 1

Re: The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors; throws in the towel

2019-06-15 Thread Garnet Hertz
> >> P.S. Was talk of the death of Nettime somewhat premature? >> >> = >> >> On 12/06/2019 15:20, Adrian McEwen wrote: >> >> >> There are people in the space who see it as a way to bootstrap their >> startup, and there is a risk that it c

Re: Periodizing With Control

2019-06-14 Thread Garnet Hertz
I'm likely going to get torn apart for saying this, but in regards to "Periodizing With Control"... who cares? What are the implications of this? Seb is super smart and this is nicely crafted and researched - but this lacks any sort of case study, place, context, time or any connection to the

Re: The Maker Movement is abandoned by its corporate sponsors; throws in the towel

2019-06-10 Thread Garnet Hertz
gt; about what they liked about locally and counter-culturally produced > material culture, as Garnet Hertz did with his zines [ > http://www.conceptlab.com/criticalmaking/]. But in most ways it exposed a > lot of people to the idea of getting involved in material production in an &