Morlock Elloi on Sat, 10 Jan 2004 06:12:12 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> Era of LibreSelf-Deception Society Manifesto |
Why do I have feeling that profiteers' greed, propagandists' exposes and the like are on the higher universal ethical level than the drivel that appears on nettime, the impotent pseudo-intellectual masturbation along the lines "they are bad and we are good" and polluting the namespace with variations of Free Libre etc etc etc. Because the former have an achievable *goal*. The truth is, no one really gives a fuck about manifesting on nettime. Publishing here is free and gives you near-zero stature. Don't waste your time and my time pretending that you're publishing in highbrow magazine with "influence". If I want to read that I'll buy one. Nettime used to have a good "have something to say/pathological impulse to publish" ratio. Generic "capitalism bad something else good" essays are FUCKING BORING. NO ONE READS THAT. MAKES YOU LOOK DUMB AND NOT BEING LAID IN MONTHS. I am writing this because lately I caught myself automatically skipping articles of more than 15-20 lines. Because they tend to be content-free. Free-form forums like this one are good for propagating actual viral ideas, stuff you cannot see published in more specialised venues. So here is one: write no more than 20 lines. ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net