[rohrpost] vorwaerts, rueckwaerts, seitwaerts -> step

[Henning Ziegler]

Hm, bevor jetzt der zitierte Beitrag aus Nettime auf Rohrpost bezogen 
wird, sei noch schnell kommentiert:

 > Because the former [profiteers + propagandists] have an achievable *goal*
Ja, und ein fragwürdiges noch dazu

 > higher universal ethical level
Ganz schwierige Formulierung...

 > 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.
Beispiel für die Perspektivenlosigkeit, speziell die der 
US-amerikanischen "Linken"

 > 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.
Beispiel für das Aufmerksamkeitsdefizitsyndrom, speziell das 
US-amerikanischer Undergraduates


Matthias Weiß schrieb:

> mit dem seitenblick auf große vorbilder: kommt einem das bekannt vor?
> 
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> From: - Sat Jan 10 07:37:55 2004
> Return-Path: <owner-nettime-l at bbs.thing.net>
> Received: from bbs.thing.net ([64.115.210.50]) by
> Received: (from majordomo at localhost)    by bbs.thing.net (8.11.6/8.11.6)
> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:38:50 -0800 (PST)
> From: Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: <nettime> Era of LibreSelf-Deception Society  Manifesto
> To: nettime-l at bbs.thing.net
> Sender: nettime-l-request at bbs.thing.net
> Reply-To: Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi at yahoo.com>
> 
> 
> 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 at bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body
> #  archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime at bbs.thing.net
> 
> 

-- 
* * *

Henning Ziegler
+49 (0)179 102 61 62
mail at henningziegler.de

Hannaford-Green Cultural Management
+49 (0)30 417 149 75
hannafordgreen at yahoo.com

Website
http://www.henningziegler.de

"Everything was done in photography by the 30s. All you can do now is
to take pictures of your own time, and hope that people like them."
- David Bailey


* * *