Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:21:40 -0500 (EST)
Subject: silence




very often, I wonder about the silence on this list and why people bother
to remain subbscribed to a list that doesn't have much exchange... 

sometimes i think that if i write enough drivel, it will drive subscribers
off and i can have a comfy list of one - why not? I'm the only one who
really posts:).


sometimes i wonder if my writing shuts up everyone because they're not
sure *what* the darn stuff is;)

sometimes i wonder if the lurkers just lurk coz they're too lazy to figure
out how to unsub ( if so send me a message and i'll unsub you)

as for shutting down this space - i wouldn't dream of  it - but we could
re design it. 
Now when i say "we" of course i'll be picky about which "we's" ideas i
incorporate into the actual re-designing of this space (there - right then
i shut someone up before they even hit the r key) ....
but we can talk... visibly - so the archives are witness to my autocracy
if you like

I want to hold on to a "feminist" space. I want to hold on to a space
that encourages awareness of race, gender, class (the trimurtis of ...
whatever) and critique of privilege, at the same time I don't want it to
be a pure theoretical discussion list (we have too many of those floating 
around already). I don't want this list to become just another
"postcolonial" list.

so how do we do this? suggestions?

silence....
:)

Tell me about this silence...
what makes a list silent?


lack of purpose?

		purpose under whose definition?

content?

			content validated by who?


or is it the way we approach the word


as too sacred to throw about?


too sacred not
to rhyme

as Shakespeare
did

too sacred not to prose

as Bacon did

too sacred not to
Theorize and pontificate as

so many of us academics do

too often...


i wonder.....

we had 109 members a couple days ago - and i can only wonder why we don't
just have 1...


i mean there can't be much "backchanneling" going on when no one knows
who's on the list - except the off-list stuff i recieve in response to
what i post.


r