[Reader-list] <nettime> new rules for the new actonomy

[geert]

thanks jeebesh. let me just briefly explain the title.
it is an ironic reference to new rules for the new
economy, written in 1998 by one of the senior
editors of wired magazine. rules here is sort of
used in the context of guidelines and contexts
in which activism operates. it is actually a
thesenpapier, a wonderful german way of
discussing in which you write down what you
think that need to be done, defining together
the direction of a movement summarized in
seperate propositions. The dictonairy says
thesis or theory. OK. The point here is that in
Ango-Saxon context, I think, much too little
is being discussed about the direction, the
strategy. People are afraid to be labelled as
moralist. I think we should try to overcome that
fear and get rid of PC loops of deconstruction,
leading nowhere. There is a fear that if we cannot
speak on behalf of each other (because of 
difference) we can only talk singular. I. And I
cannot have a strategy. I can only have an 
opinion. What do you think? Ciao, Geert