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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 15:24:23 +1000
From: Stephen Cairns <Stephen_Cairns-AT-muwayf.unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: Re: LYOTARD- proposal for WW


        Reply to:   RE>LYOTARD: proposal for WWW bibliography project

The WWW Lyotard bibliography sounds great.  I have scrounged up some
interesting and strange Lyotard material over the last year or so, it would
be nice to find a home for it.

Steve

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Date: 19/6/95 3:40 PM
To: Stephen Cairns
From: lyotard-AT-jefferson.village.virg
Greetings. Some of you may be aware of the discussions going on on
list-proposals right now about the dynamics of mailing lists. If nothing
else, we're learning how little we really know about how to use the
resources we have at our disposal. Partially in response to those
questions, and partially in the hope that the 75 or so of us here on this
list might find we had something to talk about if we found a place to
start, i want to propose an ongoing project - one which i hope might be
picked up by other of the Spoon lists, but which might as well start here. 

In the next day or so, i'm planning on putting up a WWW page at the
Spoon/IATH site with the brief bibliography of Lyotard's book-length work in
English that circulated here a few months back. With any luck, i should be
able to add a list of English-language essays soon after that. That sort
of information on the WWW ought to be an asset to folks working on Lyotard.

However, we could clearly compile/compose a much more useful resource if
we pooled our various knowledges and expertises. So, i'm going to commit
myself - as "list-owner" and Spoon-member - to maintaining a Lyotard
Readers' Guide page or pages, to which list members could contribute
additional bibliographic information, corrections, abstracts or reviews of
books and essays, critical material, links to other resources. We might
post items to the list and allow a certain amount of time for comment,
before adding them to the page(s). 

The advantages for researchers, which ought to include most of us, ought
to be fairly clear. With folks like Lyotard, some guideposts along the way
are very useful. But this sort fo project has some other advantages, the
most significant perhaps being that we can work where we are with the
material, without having to agree on a text for grop readings or whatever...

I'm happy to maintain this space as an arena for potential discussion. My
own interest in Lyotard's work makes the upkeep worthwhile. However, while
we're all here, presumably interested in the same thing, perhaps this sort
of project might serve to help bring our various voices into contact. 

How does that sound?

-shawn <swilbur-AT-bgsuvax.bgsu.edu>






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