Re: [AUT] Hardt interview

["Nate Holdren" <nateholdren@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi Tahir,

It's pretty clear to anyone who has been on here a while that the list
has declined majorly. When I first was on here, Chris Wright and
others were on here who were very active and came from a general left
communist perspective with interests in Hegel and Hegelians. The next
wave was people of a more anarchist bent and people interested in
Deleuze and Negri etc in a philosophical way. Along the way
discussions of world and movement events and events in people's own
workplaces (the latter was never much of a topic) came up as stuff
came up in the world off list. After Steve Wright, Angela Mitropolous,
and Thiago Oppermann signed off the list went down in a big way
compared to before and hasn't ever recovered.

At the same time, for as long as I can remember people have
periodically posted things like you are here, saying basically "this
list isn't doing what it should be doing, let's talk about something
else" without much of a suggestion of what that something else should
be. That's never worked as far as I can recall. Unfortunately even
when people have made suggestions of specific stuff there's often not
enough of a critical mass of people with time and energy. The good
conversations that have happened on here (I'm sure you remember, there
used to some really good ones, I know I learned a ton from aut-op-sy,
my political perspective would be much much worse has this list never
existed) have sort of just happened. Personally, I don't see that as
very likely at least in the near future.

To be honest, though, I prefer aut-op-sy as it is now to some of the
ugly name calling that's happened on the list before, said name
calling being a big part of why many of the better members of the list
have left on multiple occasions.

take care,
Nate



On 4/17/07, Tahir Wood <twood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> Thomas Seay <entheogens@xxxxxxxxx> 04/17/07 1:13 AM >>>
>  After all, at this point, let's face it, anything that is written is
> as good as anything else
>
> How about that? I thought I was the only one who had identified this
> tendency of this list. I feel entirely vindicated now, after all this
> time.
> Tahir
>
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