Some Definitions
Open:
1. as in “Welcoming,” “Hospitable” or “Democratic”:
Submissions are sought from anyone investigating culture, media, or communication. This should be interpreted as widely as possible: academics, artists, poets, cartographers, detectives. Contributions of any kind are accepted at any time.
“Pure and unconditional hospitality, hospitality itself, opens or is in advance open to someone who is neither expected nor invited, to whomever arrives as an absolutely foreign visitor, as a new arrival, nonidentifiable and unforeseeable, in short, wholly other.” Derrida in Philosophy in a Time of Terror
2. as in “Open Source”:
This site is based on principles of community or polyvocal production learned from the open source movement.
3. as in “Not Closed”:
The writing in this space is ongoing. These are works in progress because all work is. Once published, authors and users are encouraged to continue developing a piece by submitting their comments.
4. as in according to 4 pragmatic principles:
(1.) interaction, that is
(2.) pluralist (open to and protective of individual difference- in terms of technology and content) and
(3.) framed by communities (open to and protective of difference on a more complex, collective scale) because of a final principle of
(4.) growth (long term, like seven generations).
Open.touchbasic.com is interested in sustainable and healthy growth both inside and outside of the Internet environment; in creating an engaging (and even sometimes fun) space of interconnections between fields and ideas; and in responding to the interests of our readers.