[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> no people.

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

I'm not sure how to answer this since it's already cut into the fabric of
an in-joke.

What is nettime exactly? A place for cultural work, cultural politics? A
place of discussion? A place of textual dissemination? Of cultural produc-
tion?

It's all of these. I write texts; these particular ones deal with the
stereotyping of others - animals whose characteristics are related
primarily to those of first-grade readers, at least in the United States,
at least when I was a child. The 'noble lion' and so forth.

So this is nothing more than a list of these characteristics and their
negation and a somewhat edgy denial of the negation, the whole in quota-
tion marks.

I think nettime has room for my work and Kenji Seratori's and NN's and a
variety of textual practices, all of which from one or another viewpoint,
might leave one clueless; I know when I first saw Kenji's work, I didn't
know what to make of it, for example.

Having been at the ELO awards and the EPoetry conference - both within the
past few weeks - I feel there's place for many modes of thinking, working
through ideas.

I apologize if you feel that this is a nettime in-joke; in fact, I feel,
like many others, outside of the nettime mainstream, such as it might be.
But I also feel there's room for all of this.

Finally, not sure what you mean about invisible quotation marks; mine are
evident in the piece, but beyond that, I'm not quoting anyone.

Alan






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