space

alex galloway (agalloway@rhizome.com)
Fri, 13 Jun 1997 21:05:38 -0800

at jordan's suggestion, i'd like to provide an alternate description of
this list. this will help us all digest the list's objectives as stated in
jordan's post of yesterday "<documenta X><blast> fields."

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the blast list takes "space" as a contemporary keyword.

within that notion of space, the list claims that technology changes the
nature of space, and from that premise aims to explore how space - be it
social space, public space, net space, etc. - is produced, structured and
navigated.

possible discussion topics on blast:
What is netspace?
How is the idea of transportation/movement changed by digital technology?
Is there an "architecture" of the web outside of the computers and wires?
At the level of discourse, what rules govern transfer of information?
How do people *read* space? How to people *speak* into that space?

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ideas? comments? ==> blast@forum.documenta.de

-ag