Re: <documenta X><blast> fields

Alan Julu Sondheim (sondheim@panix.com)
Sun, 15 Jun 1997 01:07:18 -0400 (EDT)

I'd argue that the Home Shopping Network in fact is empowering, not
dis-empowering - it depends where you stand. It creates a site for
shopping for people who are home-bound. It's a site that's under their
control. And it's a site which includes a modicum of identity if you call
in - and if not, at least the identification with identity. Forget for a
moment it's all false, Sartre's seriality - it works for the people who
watch it.

I'd just be careful about empowering/disempowering - or at least let us
carefully define these terms.

Alan