marc on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:40:23 +0100 (CET)


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Re: <nettime> Definitions


- but how will it be re-processed, re-historicized, controlled if there 
is no specific product to define?

marc

>Is it really that important to spend all this time and bandwidth 
>defining the term 'new media'? In the end, no matter how anyone 
>defines it, the gods of language are not going to carve it it stone. 
>It will still never be a final, definitive definition and will always 
>be interpreted somewhat differently by each person who uses the term. 
>Whatever it means to you is what it means. Now get back to work and 
>make some new media...
>
>R.


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