File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2002/postcolonial.0205, message 137


Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 11:21:03 -0400
From: "Anthony McCann" <mccannat-AT-si.edu>
Subject: Re: Alternative to this list -- 'H-Postcolonial' (proposed)


For me it's not a question of isolating from 'the masses'. I am on a lot of lists and there is a distinct dominance of Israeli/Palestine discussion, which is fine, but I am already subscribed to lists that provide me with such discussions and I didn't subscribe to this one to get inundated with the same. There is also a high proportion of flaming here compared to other lists I have been on, and if I were in a room with such interaction I would soon walk out. 

In my view, the researchers
and scholars (and other professionally minded people in postcolonialism-
whatever that means) have a duty to be on lists like this to temper, ignite,
orient and rectify the flows of argument.>

Honestly, I couldn't be bothered. It takes about 10 years for a person's mind to change, so I'm not going to engage in to and fro argument for the sake of it. Neither am I interested in making other people think like me. I am interested in engaging with colleagues in ways that help me bring my thinking to new places, not in doubling back on myself all the time to engage in claim and counterclaim argumentation. Internet lists can easily get caught up in the politics of rhetoric for rhetoric's sake, and I'm not interested in that.

All the best,

Anthony McCann


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