[Air-l] Community "Critical Mass"?

[Hugemusic]

Sorry, forgot to add smileys to that last post .... :-)

:-)

Cheers,
Hughie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hugemusic" <hmusic at ozemail.com.au>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Air-l] Community "Critical Mass"?


> Fair enough.  I was waiting for someone to run the postmodern interference
> on this play.
>
> So, are we interested in answering the question *as best we can* or do we
> just wanna swap digitised abstractions of inter-personal mediated
> communications about why the question can't be addressed because it's not
> really the question, just a digitised abstraction of the question?
>
> Or perhaps the question is not really the *right* question ... or
> abstraction of what would be the right question if it wasn't an 
> abstraction
> ... because the problem the question seeks to address is only an 
> abstraction
> of the problem about which we're asking an abstracted question ...
>
> Spare me!
>
> Cheers,
> Hughie
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeremy Hunsinger" <jhuns at vt.edu>
> To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>; "Hugemusic" <hmusic at ozemail.com.au>
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 1:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Community "Critical Mass"?
>
>
>>
>> On Dec 21, 2006, at 10:06 PM, Hugemusic wrote:
>>
>>> Why? Because it answers the question that was asked.
>>
>> actually... no, it doesn't.  what it answers is the abstraction or
>> representation of that question that you can create into quantifiable
>> terms... that is rarely if ever the question asked.    sometimes it  is
>> very close though.
>>
>
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