Phil Graham on 26 Sep 2000 06:45:24 -0000 |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Water-shedding |
Ahhh ... sorry. I've been so used to listening to discourses about the death of the writer, the linearity of text, the obsolescence of the book, etc etc etc, that I didn't here the prosody of "yeah, right", the double-positive of ironic negation (or something) ... 8( < = two fried eggs on face, no cheese. regards, Phil At 10:03 PM 25/09/00 -0400, Joshua Goldberg wrote: >It was a slightly tongue in cheek statement. More than slightly. Online, >nobody can hear you nuance. > >I myself spend hours each day building virtual sandcastles. I can't write >well, and I wish I could. > >I am fully aware that the art I create is impermanent- far more so than >simple words. I worry about the CD-ROM as an archival format; I hope he is >also keeping copies on paper. > >I always forgive questions. They beat flames any day. ;) <--please note >smiley denoting bemused forgiveness and ingratiating humor. > >best > >j > >on 9/25/00 10:25 AM, Phil Graham at phil.graham@mailbox.uq.edu.au wrote: > > > At 08:34 AM 25/09/00 -0400, Joshua Goldberg wrote: > >> "Anyone working as a digital artist is building castles made of sand." > >> > >> -- Jaron Lanier. > >> > >> I suppose Alan Sondheim can be forgiven for being mostly a writer. > > > > Why would a person need "forgiveness" for being a writer? Are you > > dispensing forgiveness to all us writers? Would you also forgive musicians > > too, since they are even more prehistoric than writers? > <...> > >-- >Josh Goldberg >josh@goldbergs.com > >"It's OK, my sheet's got a hole in it!" > ># 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 _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold