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   [Date]: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:18:08 +0200
   [From]: Gerhard Haupt <haupt@uinic.de>
     [To]: Cultural Exchange via Internet <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Re: [forum1] Lady D was a prostitute

Hello everybody,

Juan Jose's provocative subject line [which surely made everyone of us
to read his posting ;-) ] reminded me of some ideas, developed by
Michael H. Goldhaber about the conditions of production and distribution
of art in the circumstances of a new "Attention Economy". Since 1996 the
online edition of the German magazine Telepolis has been publishing a
lot of his articles, texts and a column, as well as contributions on the
issue by other authors (Florian Roetzer, Georg Franck).

It's impossible to resume this complex theory in a few words, one has to
read the texts. Here only two short quotations, to give you an idea:

"Today what counts more and more is performing, not producing in the old
routine sense of factory production. Since performance involves your
whole personality, everything about you, you are always at least
preparing, except perhaps when you are paying attention to others, which
is always to some degree effortful,and certainly requires time."

"Attention is held unequally, and the old wealth, which is money in our
case, flows to the holders of the new wealth, which is attention, and
whom we call stars, celebrities, and so on."

Quoted from:
Michael H. Goldhaber: Attention Economy and the Net - Part II, in:
Telepolis, 12 December 1997
english: http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/eco/6202/1.html
deutsch: http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/eco/6200/1.html

See also Part 1:
english: http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/eco/6097/1.html
deutsch: http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/eco/6195/1.html

and another text:
Michael H. Goldhaber: Art and the Attention Economy in Real Space and
Cyberspace, in Telepolis, 9 January 1998
english: http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/kolu/2241/1.html
deutsch: http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/kolumnen/gol/2240/1.html


Best wishes,
Gerhard Haupt