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| <nettime> ADMINISTRATIVE: Expiring Words and Phrases [v0.1 03191999] |
The Language Compliance Section of the Zentral Kommittee is distributing this notice as the first in a series of periodic reminders that many commonly used words and phrases will irrevocably expire as of 11:59:59 P.M. on 31 December 1999. Recipients of this notice should immediately take any and all necessary measures to ensure that the words and phrases enumerated below are employed and/or invoked with a frequency that diminishes at a progressive rate such that community-wide zero-level utilization can reliably be projected by the target date. In particular, it is vital that administrators redistribute this notice to subordinates and associates in a timely fashion: as this directive is put into practice, it will become increasingly difficult to utilize legacy institutional channels, which rely heavily on these words and phrases to express and exercise their traditional prerogatives and procedures. In keeping with this directive, the introduction to this periodic notice (i.e., what you are now reading) will itself progressively dispense with expiring words and phrases as the target date approaches; it is our hope that this will serve as an example for those to whom this directive pertains (i.e., everyone). Please note that the global substitution or euphemization of non-expiring terms for expiring terms is not an acceptable or adequate solution. The conditions under which various terms are expiring are not universal or homogeneous; in certain cases, they are being decommissioned due to excessive use, in other cases due to structural failures in the underlying or referenced concepts. Since the appeals process has been strictly limited due to the pervasiveness of the problem, the Language Compliance Section has determined that the most prudent procedure is to harmonize the basis for expiration under the rubric of "structural failure"; consequently, euphemistic substitutions are unacceptable. Persons and/or entities that choose to make use of euphemism risk sanction and/or expulsion from the Linguistic Community. This list is a work in progress. Research teams are scheduled to return reports citing candidates for expiration on a biweekly basis up to the target date; these reports, in turn, will be reviewed and synthesized, and public notices will be circulated on a schedule approximating a monthly basis. Because we have every reason to believe that this list will expand dramatically, it is all the more incumbent upon recipients to undertake compliance measures immediately, lest they find themselves speechless toward year's end. Implementation note: Initially, this list will be circulated in human-readable form to facilitate recipients' need to fasmiliarize themselves with the expiring items. However, as it becomes more thorough and the target date approaches we will make it available in a variety of supplemental technical formats, for example, discretionary user dictionaries for word-processors (these will recommend replacing expiring words and phrases with dummy text, e.g., strings of dashes), grep expressions, alternative character encoding (e.g., UNICODE), etc. In the interim, recipients should interpret the appended list broadly, i.e., as incuding all declensions, conjugations, negations and/or inversions, expansions through prefixes, suffixes, and so forth. Your cooperation is appreciated. [Signature] Charmin Parnell for the Language Compliance Section Zentral Kommittee Expiring Words and Phrases v0.1 03191999 18th 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 19th 20th 21st 2D 3D abstract access accountable activism administration agent alimentary alternative America Amsterdam anarchy art as attack author authority autonomy avant-garde avatar bandwidth Berlin bottleneck boundary brink broadcast browser business conscious California capital censor century channel chaos charity chat room CIA clean closed closure co-opt code colonial commercial committee communist community compete complex complicate compulsive conceptual conservative conspiracy contemporary content contestation context contract cool copy copyright corrupt create crisis critic critique cutting-edge cyber- data death decade deconstruct democracy derivative desire development digital dirty disinformation distributed DOD domain dominant duplicate Dutch dystopia east echelon economy either electronic end engineer experiment exploit extremist fail fake fascist FBI feed festival fin-de-siecle first amendment free fund geek genealogy gentrify Germany gift global government graphical hack hegemony heterodox heterogeneous high-tech highly hip horizontal hotly hypocrite hypothetical identity ideology illegal info- information infrastructure institution instrument integrate intellectual intelligent interactive interface internet interrogate intervention intervention invest kiddyporn kill knowledge last late lawsuit left legacy liberal license limit local low-tech media modern mainstream manage margin market memo method military minority mode monopoly multiplicity multiuser naive narrative necessary negative neo- net Netherlands network New York NGO nice nondisclosure normal north NSA NWO offline oligopoly online open opertaive opportunity or organize orthodox other paranoia pedophile pentagon perform persona personal perspective PGO philanthropy pirate position post- power practice private privatize problematic process project property propaganda proposal psychology public rational radical random react real reduction reinvent relapse render repetition represent resource revolution right risk stream same schizophrenic sector sell out silicon site sophisticated south space specialize speculate spook spy startup state strategy surveillance target technology television terror theater theory thread threaten totalitarian trade trademark user underdeveloped unify utilize utopia venture verticle virtual war war wealth webcast west wrong zone --- [end] --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@desk.nl and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@desk.nl