Subject: YNT: New poco list/group blog
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:37:28 +0200


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Kimden: owner-postcolonial-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU bu kişinin yerine: Amardeep Singh
Gönderilmiş: Paz 28.11.2004 17:29
Kime: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
Konu: New poco list/group blog



RIP Postcolonial List!

I'll be starting a new postcolonial email list & group blog.

Email me at **amardeep-AT-gmail.com** if you are interested. The format will be the
same as this list, though that might be negotiated/discussed by participants.
The technical component will be very simple. The goal is to build a **public**
space for discussion of issues interesting to postcolonial scholars.

Amardeep
http://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/blog.html


> Dear all,
>
> It has been a pleasure to learn about listing and moderating and to engage
> in discussion here on the postcolonial list these past 9 years since I took
> up the task of facilitating the list. I am now leaving Spoon and will also
> no longer be moderating the postcolonial list. I have various interfaces
> already in existence that are mutations and per - mutations of my interests
> in postcolonial theory and the internet etc and those exist outside spoon
> and will continue in  various form(at)s - so I am not altogether
> disappearing from cyberspace.
>
> My work with the spoon collective has allowed to me to continue
> investigations regarding the email list interface, management, moderation
> and communication. I have encountered all sorts of people and machines. I
> started the third-world-women list, women-writing-culture list and the
> sa-cyborgs list because of spoon (some histories of these spaces are
> available in my book cyberselves) - all these are now silent and closed
> down by default sorta. I may consider re-starting an offshoot of sa-cyborgs
> via yahoo or something sometime next year - or not. Meanwhile those
> interested are welcome to participate in my blogspaces, my theoryhead
> formations and so on (see links in sig file).
>
> Below is a message from Malgosia Arkansas of Spoon explaining our
> collective decision to shut down:
>
>
> >This decision is part of a wider set of decisions having to do with the
> >present circumstances of the Spoon Collective.  The Collective, of which I
> am
> >the sole surviving founder, has been operating continually for over 10
> >years.
> >Of the 8 people who currently constitute it, 3 have been in it basically
> from
> >the very beginning, and almost all the others for almost as long.
> >
> >When the Spoon Collective was originally created, a crucial aspect of its
> life
> >was our own passionate involvement in the lists we created or took over.
> >As  vehicles for bringing into mutual contact and confrontation thinking
> >people from all over the computerized world - people from astoundingly
> >different walks of life and with astoundingly different ways of thinking,
> >but with a shared passion for more accurate perception and deeper
> >understanding
> >- these lists seemed to us to present a stupendous potential for evolving
> >new modes of thought and new modes of life.  And it is essential to note
> that
> >when we were motivated by a thirst for new modes of thought and life, it
> was
> >for _ourselves_ that we wanted them.  Our project was not about providing a
> >public or academic or political service, discharging a societal duty, or
> >providing platforms for this or that political organization or orientation
> -
> >rather, it was about changing life - the life we think and live - right at
> the
> >present moment.
> >
> >Over the years, however, our relationship with our lists gradually changed,
> >and we now find our collective endeavor basically reduced to an indifferent
> >performance of a not-excessively-bothersome piece of labor.  The reasons
> for
> >this are undoubtedly complex - the first and simplest one, perhaps, being
> >that
> >the same group of people has been doing the same thing for 10 years.  If
> our
> >goal had been less the stability of existing lists and more the
> preservation
> >of our own passion, we probably could have done better.  In any case, we
> find
> >ourselves a bunch of burnt out and apathetic bureaucrats.
> >
> >I personally find thie prolongation of this situation no longer tolerable
> or
> >sensical.  As a result, I have (1) announced that I am quitting the Spoon
> >Collective; (2) decided to close down a number of lists that I have been
> >responsible for; and (3) declared the end of the Spoon Collective as a
> >certain historic formation, and stipulated that the name no longer be used
> for
> >whatever the present members may undertake in the future.
> >
> >A number of the other members of Spoon have expressed an interest in either
> >continuing their present lists or initiating other collective projects at
> >Virginia.  We very much hope that no matter what develops, the Spoon
> >archives,
> >which, in large part, constitute an eminently useful and fascinating
> >resource,
> >can continue to be housed in their present location.  In addition, a copy
> >of the archives is being installed at the domain driftline.org, where they
> >will soon be accessible over the Web.
> >
> >Yours,
> >Malgosa Askanas
>
>
> Radhika Gajjala
> http://www.cyberdiva.org
> blogs: http://www.cyberdiva.org/cyberdiv/october
> research and teaching: http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik
> Collaborations on Theory heads, MOOing and tinymushing -
> http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000/4425
> "Object Stares Back" at http://cyberdiva.mudmagic.com/
> http://www.pmcmoo.org:7788/16287
>
>
>
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