<nettime> "the sounds of silence"

[Allan Siegel via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Dear Nettimers.
*“Hello darkness my old friend / I’ve come to talk with you again…*” 
(Simon & Garfunkel)

My reading of the Podinskii email (and Brian’s earlier posting) was that 
it intended to bring into focus an awareness of the alarming nature of 
this historical moment; and further, how cultural organisations and 
groups of people were responding to the crisis in Gaza and Israel. As 
well as the political and social ramifications of multiple crises: the 
war in Ukraine, COP etc. The consequences cannot and should not be 
underestimated. It is far better for people to voice their various 
responses to these cataclysms then to be silent; NETTIME exists as an 
important discursive space within which the diversity of our collective 
voices can heard.

Also,  I don’t understand the usefulness of referring to “The Left” (as 
in the example below) as if it was some homogeneous entity; there is a 
wide variety of political groups and collectivities that are responding 
to the crisis in Palestine and Israel; the diversity should be valued 
and not reduced to some imaginary entity.
'For a consistently democratic and internationalist left' 
https://leftrenewal.net/. ; “We have written this text as a critique of a 
common sense that has come to predominate across much of the left.”

Best
Allan
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