File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1996/96-10-21.153, message 13


Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 12:08:06 -0600 (MDT)
From: Flannon <flannon-AT-odin.cair.du.edu>
Subject: A final note on Karl Carlile


Due to the recent events with Karl Carlile there are certain elements in 
the structure of this list that are in the process of changing.  In the 
past the list has been completely open and as moderator my attitude has 
been basically to sit back and watch how things unfold.  However, it is 
becoming increasingly apperant that such a state is not capable of 
producing a viable medium for the production of meaningful discourse.  
True enough, that last statment is loaded and highly charged.  I mean, 
who am I to say what constitutes 'meaningful discourse', or, for that 
matter, who am I to impose the necessity of meaningfulness?  To these 
questions I have no immediate answer, though I am willing to take up 
their ramifications with anyone who would find this interesting.  Be that 
as it may there are certain minimal restictions that I am willing to 
impose, even if it is a gratuitous imposition.  

It has always been my hope that this list would consitute a space for 
theoretical practice, that it would not only be a list about foucault but 
it would also be a space where archaeology and geneology could be taken 
up and practiced.  Throughout my tenure as moderator the list has 
approached and receeded form my ideal in various ways, which is only to 
be expected in a medium sush as this.  From my perspective there is only 
one hard and fast rule that applies here and that is that the discourse 
is engaged from a certain level of interest.  As far as I'm concerned 
flame bait is uninteresting, it bores me, and I'm assuming it bores many 
others as well.  As a result I have unsubbed Karl Carlile from the list 
and we have put some mechanisms in place so that he cannot post tot the 
list.  There's still a couple of bugs to be worked out in the system, but 
for the most part we should now be unperterbed by KC.

Having to cull the list in this manner is rather unfortuante and I don't 
see it as a long term solution, rather I would like to take it as an 
occasion to try and and problematize the medium within which we are 
engaged in an attempt to come up with what might be more viable 
solutions.  Since such a meta-discussion of lists is not everyone's cup 
of tea I would invite anyone who is interested to sub to the 
list-proposals this.  To do this send a message to 
majordomo-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu, leave the subject line blank 
and in the body of the text write "sub**ibe list-proposals" (without the 
"" and the *'s).


Flannon




   

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