From: "jurriaan bendien" <Jbendien-AT-globalxs.nl> Subject: Re: the whatchamacallit thingy connected to the other thingyconnected to.. Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 23:08:34 +0100 Thanks cyberdiva for a wonderful poem. Slurpy stuff. Jurriaan. ---------- > From: cyberdiva <radhik-AT-bgnet.bgsu.edu> > To: sa-cyborgs-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU > Subject: the whatchamacallit thingy connected to the other thingyconnected to.. > Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 7:05 PM > > that helps me create > "nonlinear" > > and yet oh so linear > linear > lean ier > > digital > images > > interactive projects > intuitively > > clicking the thingy called the mousey > > whatever > > whatchamalit thingumajigs > > if i choose not to speak the language > > of the mechanical > cyborgs > > inhabiting the technological spaces > > if i refuse to mystify the act > of mere programming > > > if i tell them to stuff it > > when they throw those > > whatchamacallit beeg names around > > will my skill dis > appear? > (what the hell *is* skill if not learned? > that anyone can l- > earn) > > > > if i do not speak the language > > nay shout the phallic symbols > > will i be silenced? > > we shall see... > > > meanwhile the thingamajiggeess > the clicking mouse thingies > > the video whatevers > > and the blinking screens the whatchamacallits > > > enable me to "speak" in doing > > expressing > > > still within the realm of the great big > > panopticon > > the whatchamacallit... > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Radhika Gajjala > Assistant Professor > (Multimedia, New Technologies) > 316B West Hall > Dept of Telecommunications > Bowling Green State University > Bowling Green, OH 43403 > > (419)372-0528 > webpage: http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~radhik > ____________________________________________________ > > > ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? > ? "I thought fiction was fiction ? > ? it is theory ? > ? i thought theory was the solution ? > ? it is practice." ? > ? ? > ? - Ruthan Robson ????????? > ????????????????? > "When one says `writing,' it means... kind of structuring the limits of the > power of practice, knowing that what is beyond practice is always > organizing practice." - Gayathri C. Spivak > ///////////////////////////////////////////// > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / > > "Thus every writer's motto reads: > > *mad I cannot be, sane do not deign to be, neurotic I am.*" - Roland Barthes > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ > >
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