t.whid wrote:

> (let's make a rule that whenever talking about hypothetical
> situations
> that deal with net art we have to use MTAA as the example artists.
> Does
> everyone agree?)

This is a point I originally considered including in my essay on meritocracy: fame as a phenomenon created by a linguistic necessity.

Certain phenomena happen in our society for which we have no words. The more abstract they are, the more inconvenient it is to describe them. For instance 'Generation X