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 --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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