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Subject: Re: <nettime> net.<foo> From: { brad brace } <bbrace@netcom.com> Date: 7 Aug 1997 17:36:01 +0200 * * * * * To: Nettime <nettime-l@Desk.nl> In-Reply-To: <19970807022747.22827@panix.com> Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9708070843.A24264-0100000@netcom10> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-nettime-l@Desk.nl Precedence: bulk On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, t byfield wrote: > ... Erich's suggestion, IIRC, that dots connote hierarchy was > correct, I think--but more than that, they suggest a *path*... The 'forward slash' usually indicates a path/ And then there is the 'reverse solidus' after which my web-site is named. I currently reside between the pictorial dots in Wired. The lumpen ranks of alienated citizens are swelling. The social imperative is to think anew rather than retreat inward. Like it or not, this will require people to reimagine themselves as social beings on a larger stage, not helpless cogs in an awesome market system, and to glimpse the all-encompassing possibilities that the global revolution has put before them. The challenge is not to abandon old identities and deeply held values, but to enlarge them. If capitalism is now truly global, what are the global social obligations that accompany it? -- { brad brace } <<<< bbrace@netcom.com >>>> ~finger for pgp The_12hr-ISBN-JPEG_Project ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace continuous hypermodern ftp.teleport.com/users/bbrace imagery online ftp.rdrop.com/pub/users/bbrace all-the-time ftp.pacifier.com/pub/users/bbrace -- Usenet-news: alt.binaries.pictures.12hr/ a.b.p.fine-art.misc Mailing-list: listserv@netcom.com / subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg Reverse Solidus: http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html -- --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de