via my fibreculture subscription, an open invitation:

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You are invited to join ::fibreculture:: – a community of critical thinkers, Australia-wide, engaged with new media / internet theory and practice. We are people who think, read and write about the design, application and cultures around new technology.

::fibreculture:: is a mechanism for sharing work in theory, design, art, policy, education, activism and research with and about new media technologies. While we certainly hope to stimulate real debate about culture and technology, this is not a space for polemic or adversarial confrontations.

The list, website, events, publications and other ::fibreculture:: initiatives are coordinated and produced through collaborative ‘steering’ taskforces. Invitations are posted on the main fibreculture list for people to join ad hoc groups off-list to achieve particular objectives. These off-list groups then report back to the main list. ::Fibreculture:: is not a formally constituted organisation, but a collaborative and distributed group of people with similar interests. New ideas and initiatives are welcome.

The ::fibreculture:: email list was founded in January 2001 by David Teh and Geert Lovink, and has around 750 members (October 2003). The list is not a primarily a conversational space, but a forum for exchange of productively critical articles, ideas and arguments about Australian IT policy in a broad political, cultural and economic context. List subscribers include theorists, critics, journalists, academics, artists, activists, media producers, designers and other information-workers. See details of how to subscribe and post at the bottom of this message.

If you want to get an idea what is being posted on the Fibreculture list, please visit the web archive of the e-mail list.