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@vt.edu> To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; "Hugemusic" <hmusic@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.