[NetBehaviour] thinking about Lichty's comments

helen at creative-catalyst.com helen at creative-catalyst.com
Wed Sep 5 06:12:53 CEST 2007


perhaps - but if you're constantly exploring what you don't know, when do
you have time to go deeper with & reflect on what you do know?

i don't want to be running all the time ...

h : )

Original Message:
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From: Alan Sondheim sondheim at panix.com
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 00:07:38 -0400 (EDT)
To: netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org
Subject: [NetBehaviour] thinking about Lichty's comments




which really hit home. But also I worry - in my life, not anyone else's - 
about nostalgia. I'm teaching film and distribution/media/alternative/ 
digital/bandwidth systems are changing at such a high rate of speed - it's 
better I think to work with what is here and now and a month forward; 
otherwise one is trapped in a history that's increasingly depressing as 
the world totters towards greater and greater suffering.

Instead of thinking, well, this is what the lists were, it's maybe more 
productive, again speaking for myself, to think, what are the available 
technologies now, what offers the greatest hope of communication, communi-
ty, culture interest? This isn't to abandon the past, but not to create 
the 'generation' thing. Some of my students in their beginning 20s can't 
keep up - it's not so much generational as attitudinal.

I keep thinking, we've got a short time on the planet, why not explore 
whatever we don't know and keep going that way? Lots of people are along 
for the ride!

Alan, sleeping over at the Brown faculty office


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