File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9801, message 98


Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:12:25 +0200
From: "John K. Noyes" <noyes-AT-iafrica.com>
Subject: Re: PHONE COMPANIES GANG UP AGAINST THE INTERNET


Guess what, those of us using the Internet from South AFrica where we
really *need* it (severly restricted bandwidth makes university
connection hopelessly slow) and really *can't* afford it are being
charged per minute already, since we have a Telkom monopoly here. Sorry,
but I find it hard to invoke sympathy for my North American colleagues
on this one. It's an aspect of postcolonial studies that deserves some
attention. If we believe the phrase about power/knowledge that Foucault
put into all our mouths, then what about the economic restrictions to
information access that are imposed on us here and in similar parts of
the world as part of global capitalism's uneven development? 
-- 
John K. Noyes
German and Theory of Literature
University of Cape Town

FAX: +27 21 650 3726




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