[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> publications [11]

["Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>]

No, Difference Engine is a casualty of war along with http://third.net. Difference Engine was public for precisely 2 days before a shut down. Cogent cultural criticism causes far too much collateral damage I'm afraid.

Ignorance is bliss. 

I'll be in touch about it again.

The downtime is voluntary and temporary.


Lachlan 


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Table of Contents: 
Difference Engine 1994-2001 
"Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com> 

7s01 -- final report? 
SCP-New York <notbored@panix.com> 

cfp: hosting@cddc 
jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> 

Interview Yourself - New Fall Season 
Amy Alexander <plagiari@plagiarist.org> 

Re: <nettime> The Algebra Of Infinite Justice 
"b g" <brucegottlieb@hotmail.com> 

In Conversation Lev Manovich and Aaron Betsky 
Nat Muller <Nathalie.Muller@skynet.be> 


"Luchezar Boyadjiev" <luchezb@cblink.net> 

Avatare - Take The Biscuit! 
Guenter Eger <guenter.eger@mailbox.tu-dresden.de> 

SlamPoetryPictures 
jimpunk <jim@jimpunk.com> 

current work 
Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> 

M/C Call for Contributors: 'work' issue 
"Axel Bruns" <mc@mailbox.uq.edu.au> 


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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:32:29 -0500 
From: "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com> 
Subject: Difference Engine 1994-2001 

That Ludic Impulse - Lets Do It Again. 

For those who may have missed it first time around, Difference Engine 1 1994-2001 
is here http://www.third.net/001a.html. It is the earliest online publication addressed to broader readerships than specialist IT communities or specialist post-modernist (remember that?) academic communities. 

The idea was to spend around seven years exploring the possibilities and limitations of Internet as publishing in a practical way, before implementing online publishing (via Third.net) while also employing the site to help research a range of beliefs, policies and legalities among a number of producer and consumer constitutents of Internet as it emerged in culture through aesthetic, political and legal spheres. 

I include a picture of me not for vanity's sake (well...not really) but to 'humanise' the endeavour, as well as to counter a recent poor representation employing a pic of me from around 1995. IBM's Blue Velocity 'IN' ad campaign employs a digitally enhanced (aged and distraught) photograph of me from around 1995 to illustrate 'The Hacker'. 'The Hacker' is the only figure specifically excluded from a range of 'figures' from the services and benefits of the Blue Velocity programme. My pic comes with the text: 'Hackers can't get IN'. 

Need I say that I am not a 'hacker' I am a part time researcher in cultural studies. I view the use of my image by the marketing company that handles IBMs account as a remarkable admission by an agency of global corporate capital that the very thing it seeks to deny: that 'class' matters. Global Corporate Capital's self-representation 'cracked'? 


Lachlan Brown 
lachlan@third.net 
http://third.net - alternative media, alternative media servers 
http://coalition.org.uk - drawing the line on hate online and racism anywhere 


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