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Tom Coates

19:53 / 17.06.01

Quite interested in changing the name of the Head Shop into 'Intelligence' and the Switchboard to something like 'Resistance' - opinions?

ynh

19:57 / 17.06.01

Resistance sounds good... I wouldn't mind Theory (Head Shop) and Praxis (Switchboard) either.

Lee

20:01 / 17.06.01

Yes please. I never could tell the difference between the two, to be honest.

Ellis

20:03 / 17.06.01

They both sound good Tom.

Theory sounds cool too, but not to sure about Praxis though, just don't sound right.

Tom Coates

20:04 / 17.06.01

In a weird way they've been one for theory and one for practice. You want to talk about Feminist theory, you go to the Head Shop. You want to talk about a Feminist demonstration, or a news story about a feminist demonstration - you go to Switchboard.

ynh

20:06 / 17.06.01

Um, yeah. I figured that out fairly quickly. I was thinking Intelligence would re-confuse the two, since Intel can be data, or theory?

Tom Coates

20:09 / 17.06.01

True. Ok. I like the idea of making the switchboard more clearly 'Resistance', but I'll agree with you that we need something else for the Head SHop. Something that carries most of the same associations, but is distinguished a LITTLE more stronly from Switchboard.

minor 9th

20:15 / 17.06.01

as an aside, i like the new description for the music section

Lee

20:40 / 17.06.01

I kind of miss having somewhere to just talk about the news, and offer up imbecilic and ignorant commentry on current events like an old man on the porch, without getting bogged down in theory or activist credentials. Neither forum seemed right for that.

ynh

22:41 / 17.06.01

The Conversation forum, maybe?

Lothar Tuppan

00:58 / 18.06.01

The only thing that currently come to mind for the head shop is either: Theorem or Theorematic(weren't the Theorematiks a punk band?)

I don't really like either but maybe it'll spur a good idea in someone else's wee noggin.

Rosa dLuscious

06:28 / 18.06.01

I like the idea of renaming, but could we keep in mind how we had this conversation last time, and a lot of people seemed to think that lateral, metaphoric names worked better to inspire people to post stuff than simple labels.

And Lee, what I love about this place is the theory and/or stupid wanky activist credential element. How else are we supposed to learn anything?

(Then again, I think I've always been on the vanguard end of the Barbelith political spectrum. Without ever meaning to.)

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:10 / 18.06.01

I hate to be a stick-in-the-mud conservative, but I like them as they are...

sleazenation

07:23 / 18.06.01

I'm with zen here

Lee

08:20 / 18.06.01

quote:Originally posted by Rosa dLuscious:

And Lee, what I love about this place is the theory and/or stupid wanky activist credential element. How else are we supposed to learn anything?

Oh I like these things too, really. What I miss is the more casual, subjective review of current events in something like The Information. I don't think The Conversation fulfills this and, at least in their descriptions, The Switchboard and Head Shop seem to exclude it.

Eloi Tsabaoth

08:20 / 18.06.01

Alternative names for the Head Shop:
The Think Hut
The Mind Kennel
The Brain Jacuzzi
The Cerebellum Winnebago
The Idea Hutch
The Thought Tent
The Question Condo

The Return Of Rothkoid

11:39 / 18.06.01

The Conundrum Semi-detached?

Goodness Gracious Meme

12:04 / 18.06.01

don't like 'the theory', or things derived from that, too constricting.

grant

13:08 / 18.06.01

How about just "Thinking" and "Doing"?

MJ-12

13:19 / 18.06.01

The Psychic Wankfest

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:19 / 18.06.01

grant: 'thinking' sounds a bit vague, not to mention overly accessible. I very much like the idea that the Head Shop should sound a bit intimidating, like it's somewhere where people should try and apply some degree of intellectual rigour... It's only by forcing ourselves to think hard that we reach useful conclusions.

Goodness Gracious Meme

13:28 / 18.06.01

True, but i'd still argue against explicitly naming it as a 'theory' forum, ties discussion down to an unhelpful degree in my view...

Lothar Tuppan

14:21 / 18.06.01

I think the image of us riding around in a Winnebago is pretty damn funny. It might make a lousy name for the forum but it's still pretty funny.

ynh

18:03 / 18.06.01

"Oh, Honey, I wanted a Diamond RV."

All this discussion after Tom patently shat on Theory... How about Think Tank? It's intimidating, violent, has conservative overtones, and saying it out loud makes your tongue feel abused.

Lothar Tuppan

20:59 / 18.06.01

If we have a think tank then we *have* to have a Shadow Cabinet

grant

15:20 / 19.06.01

Idealogues
and
Bomb-tossers?

Headspace
and
Meatspace?

Generals
and
Privates?

or...

Thinking Caps
and
Combat Boots?

ynh

15:28 / 19.06.01

Thinking Caps? grant, have you read Rucker's 'Ware books?

Lothar Tuppan

16:34 / 19.06.01

I like Grant's suggestions of
Headspace
and
Meatspace

or

Thinking Caps
and
Combat Boots

Lothar Tuppan

19:41 / 19.06.01

quote:Originally posted by Howard C Green:
Madison Jeffries

Oh man. That was bad.

Perfect Tommy

19:44 / 19.06.01

I like "Head Shop"--I knew what that was pretty immediately. But um, I still don't know why the Switchboard is called the Switchboard. So I'd actually like the Head Shop to remain and only the Switchboard be renamed. (Well, okay... I like "The Think Tank" too for all the reasons given.)

The stupid suggestion that leaps to mind is "The Machine Shop." Unfortunately, that suggestion sucks.

Is plain ol' "The Resistance" too simple? The Trenches, The Barricades, Jodie Foster's Army?

(pop!)

How about BARB WIRE for the Conversation????

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