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Geert Lovink, this is a private reply to your message "Re: <nettime>
Fragments of Network Criticism" at 25.08.1999, 15:30 Uhr +0200

> Is this also my
> impression of most academics these days? They do not feel comfortable
> anymore with the notion of theory as an intervention? (let alone as a
> utopia or manifest/proposal?). Many prefer to observe, and to deconstruct?
> working with somewhat older material? not with the latest cultural
> constructs?



rolux-list, this is a private ply of my message at 15.05.1999:

        rolux-owner, this is a private reply to your message
        "<rolux> Adilkno: The Future of Negativity"
        at 10.05.1999, 15:08 Uhr +0200


        > Will it be abstract or figurative?
        yes


        > once you get it, you can apply it to anything?
        never


        > Negativity distinguishes itself rigorously from deconstructivism?
        > Deconstruction is
        > an installation CD-ROM that always works?
        no no no
        (+1-1)


        > Deconstruction's ability to anticipate is nil. There's no future for
        > negativity, a punk would
        > say.
        hu?


        > and then a long period of hiding inside
        > normality.
        unavoidable


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