[Air-l] first post

[Art McGee]

> People making political arguments about the Internet, or
> commercial organisations trying to exploit the Internet,
> often try to define it as a particular type of place to
> mobilize the persuasive topos associated with that locale.
> ie whether it should be free or controlled, or how people
> should behave.

Hey, this Jonathan person is really smart. He gets to the
crux of the matter, which is that the attempt to define
cyberspace in particular ways is not benign philosophizing,
but rather, there are specific materialist (Capitalist) and
other interests which drive those persepctives. Hot damn! ;-)


Art