[spectre] The globalizing joys of Spectralization

[Bruce Sterling]

"The list originally emerged from a rather dense community of people  
who met quite regularly at festivals and conferences in europe in the  
later 1990s. these meetings, organised under the name of a precursor  
to this list, the 'Syndicate', wove a dense web of friendly relations  
among the two or three hundred subscribers at that time. it still  
forms an important basis of how we situate our work for the list, but  
with its now more than 1.100 subscribers the spectre-list has of  
course turned much more anonymous.

"if you scan through the postings of the past months you get quite a  
good idea of the spread of people and activities that make up this  
rather virtual community. it would be nice if some people took up the  
habit again of sending reports about trips or visits that they make,  
since those kinds of reports are often the best information sources  
you can get for understanding what is going on in a certain city, or  
region."


*Well, I was Syndicate, and me and La Tesanovic are in Amsterdam  
right now at the Lloyd Hotel.
If you're Spectre, let's have a beer.

Bruce Sterling
http:://blog.wired.com/sterling
Jasmina Tesanovic
http://blog.b92.net/blog/22