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It’s funny because it’s true. Why’s it so compelling a mistake?
Part of it for me is just habit. Part of it is also craving a certain sort of intellectual interaction that can sometimes happen via electronic communication (but rarely does, and even less so if the goal is to prove someone wrong, it requires instead I think a commitment to rigorous but friendly collective effort). A great deal of my formative intellectual and political education occurred through informal electronic interaction. Remembering that, or half remembering it, is part why the habit is so hard to break despite its only occasional success.
we should go on strike against the internet… seriously
Comment by todd — June 25, 2009 @ 6:52 am
The internets have certainly resulted in the rise of mediocrity–whether that of the DailyKOs frat house, porno, or the xtian-stalinist movement of Kotzko’s gang.
Ergo, jus’ another mis-applied techno-fetish. Pynchon at one point claimed the Net had the potential to become an instrument of control for cops of all sorts. We are probably reaching that point–tho’ I suspect when the copters and black suits finally arrive, they’ll be multicultural hepcats (and hepcatettes), maybe quoting Lacan when yr stuffed in the cyber-boxcar.
Comment by Perezoso — June 25, 2009 @ 1:31 pm
I love it. Did you draw this?
Comment by Adam W. — June 27, 2009 @ 7:16 am
Nah I just live it…
Comment by Nate — June 27, 2009 @ 9:14 am