Shaun Rolph on Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:07:50 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> re: Era of LibreSelf-Deception Society Manifesto |
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Morlock Elloi wrote: > > > Generic "capitalism bad something else good" essays are FUCKING > > BORING. NO ONE READS THAT. MAKES YOU LOOK DUMB AND NOT BEING LAID IN > > MONTHS. Morlock Elloi conflated sexual frustration and the jejune pleasures of writing an Open Source manifesto. Terry Eagleton ,who lives in a rectory, (and how delighted Porculus must have been to read that ) would have us choose between French philosophy and French kissing. Now I can't see a dilemma without wanting to resolve it. So : Why not GPL relations between the sexes ?. The FLOSS mob make global claims for openness.They say it can re-engineer the whole system of social relations. But how can anything claim universality that fails to treat with the whispers of a lover or a secret smile across a crowded room ? Can we take seriously any politics that does not obtain at the nexus of cock and cunt ? The open source movement must enter the boudoir. <nettime> will lead the way. How else can we have a cultural politics of a 'net whose traffic is mostly porn.? # 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