File spoon-archives/french-feminism.archive/french-feminism_1997/97-03-25.044, message 188


Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:17:48 +0930
From: Teri Hoskin <ti-AT-camtech.net.au>
Subject: anarchic


Hello, just some notes re spamming and what sin whats out,

>Judith:
>>
>My concern is less with protecting an alleged "sanctity" of free speech
>that with keeping the authority of the list as decentered as possible

Here I have to agree. In my observations the list subscribers generally
partake of a particularly academic discourse, whilst I think this is often
engaging it does exclude a lot of other types of discourse. As an artist
with a background in academia who chooses most often to speak/write/think
poesis I am very intereseted in the ruptures that may occur from time to
time and also encouraged by these glitches in the smooth to participate.

>Baynard:
>>      We are talking about how to maintain a certain kind of
>> productivity.

here i wonder, like Kenneth, what this certain kind of productivity could
be. Obviously it is plurality that signifies feminisms, not the singular.
>
I think I probably agree with these observations, but again, what _I_
>would want is for the community of the list as a whole to deal with the
>logistics of maintaining this "certain kind of productivity," rather than
>appealing to the technocrats to do it for us.
>
>>
>I'm well aware that the limits of "pure tolerance" have not been tested
>on french-feminism; in fact I often marvel at how civil and productive
>our list discourse continues to be. So I'd say this is a point well-taken.
>
 Baynard:
After all, even anarchy is a system
>> of production.  And one not particularly like to coincide with a
>> feminist agenda at that.

I don't have a feminist 'agenda'. feminism is integral to any identity 'I'
might be today and anarchy seems to me to be a humanist word for a free
thinking radical. and i've always found the notion of agenda to be
hopelessly linear- though practising (and sometimes missing) an anarchic
approach to being always rubs against the necessity for agendas, political
action etc. one always juggles whilst walking the tightrope. it is probably
good for the spine.
>
Judith:
 rather to suggest the
>possibility of conceiving a feminism that doesn't appeal to or derive
>itself from transcendentals.

I am very new to email conventions. Hopefully I have not missed any
terribly important ones.

I am involved with the Electronic Writing and Research Ensemble, styling
writing/visuals for the site in general and working on a project  called
Tableau...always changing and quite new.

<a href="http://www.va.com.au/ensemble/">Selbo.</a>

regards, and thanks for the fab list,

ti
>

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