Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 21:53:23 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mark Logan and Kathleen O'Grady" <kerouack-AT-nic.wat.hookup.net>
Subject: Re: Cyberfeminism with a difference



This is a quick response, and perhaps has more to do with taste or style 
than anything, but I thought I would add my 2 cents worth!



On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, J Poxon wrote:

> 
> I'm not going to attempt to respond to all of Kenneth's questions, but 
> having read through about half of Braidotti's essay (which, honestly, 
> might be all I can take, since it seems at mid-point to be dis-integrating 
> [!] into self-indulgent rambling), I have a few thoughts apropos of the 


I just have to say that what Judith saw as "self-indulgent rambling" was
my favourite aspect of the Braidotti essay!  I felt it was raw, rough, and
passionate.  Her essay is very much all over the place, but I saw this as
a deliberate stylistics -- a "webbing out" if you will -- rather than a
linear argument.  I loved the network of associative links that bind her
personal "ramblings" to the more scholarly essay.  As I said, it was my
favourite part! ( ;  

I am not of the mind, as many are, that ANY personal ramblings necessarily
make an academic essay better, or that this methodology in itself cannot
fail (I've read some terribly self indulgent pieces of this type) but I
happened to think it worked well here.  And I also thought it was
well-written.  But then, that is a question of taste more than anything!
( ;


But I enjoyed the other comments very much.  

Now that a full blown discussion of this essay seems to be taking place, I
think I will read it once again and keep soem of the questions and
comments raised in mind.

Kathy

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