jenny surge on Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:25:06 +0200 (MET DST) |
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<nettime> it is drunkenness |
The word is spelled drunkenness. Maybe you were drunk when you wrote this? When you speak of drunkenness you speak of elation a "sur-conscious mix", "restless culture" and a "convoluted happening called lifetime". It seems you are intent on a way out and around the close down, the scattered skepticism; this century's mal-aftertaste. You ask we discontinue romanticism while you concurrently beg a poetic embrace of the Modernism's fallout. A reclamation of the spiritual or would you say new relations with operators at the psychic level? Would you call this progress or would you call this simply update? I consider progress as steeped historical and rational. I consider update more of a happening more ahistorical. More suited to misunderstandings. I think of technology as a lucid and single-minded series of diversions. It is truly odd to consider a callout for drunkenness via a medium so sober as the internet. Your text falls apart. It is full of holes. Is this exposure? Is this a haphazard transmission that simply suggests we are one though collective dissonance? Is this your point? If so then I would hope for more. I would demand more than what I consider to be your forced comfort in futility of gesture. "There are places on the other sides of here..." Then where are those places or have I asked the simpleminded question and should instead be comforted by the un-knowing and reliability of these transmissions. --- # 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@desk.nl and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@desk.nl