Re: choose-your-own adventure: a brief history of nettime

Dear Nettimers: "McLuhanite technological determinism" . . . !! As maybe the only person from the Wall Street "wing" of the technology industry (with at least one confirmed *weird* "assignment" from the CIA) to ever participate in nettime -- starting with that late-night phone-call from

Re: choose-your-own adventure: a brief history of nettime

A bit late on the thread -- I concur with Jaromil -- a fair, well-written, and inclusive (as far as that goes) account of the list, kudos for taking the time to compose it. Age does (productively or not) bring on reflection on the past, and at two decades, well, it's now a collective history.

Re: choose-your-own adventure: a brief history of nettime

> On 4 Nov 2015, at 9:23 a.m., Brian Holmes > wrote: > The crucial intervention so far has been the unprecedented injection of some > 12 trillion USD into the global monetary system by central banks, which know > very well what each other are doing. The next

Re: choose-your-own adventure: a brief history of nettime

This is an intricate text with a lot of angles on the subject - not a bad thing, since the subject in question is now 4,500 people! I want to look behind just one sentence: "From the beginning, served as an environment for experimentation with the new medium and, beyond that, as a