Subject: Re: silence
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:10:32 -0500


Radhika,
This just made me feel i have to say something so i guess to some extent
your message came through to me!
I will say that I don't post too often cos I am not writing too much right
now and certainly not anything that i can share in this medium. Once my film
is done  I would like to post stuff appropriate to this list.  I enjoy
reading most of the stuff that gets posted and certainly your
writings/poems/musings.  I respond when i feel I have something coherent to
say. Which may or may not be the case here!
Keep up the list is all i can say right now.
Uma
-----Original Message-----
From: Cyberdiva <radhik-AT-bgnet.bgsu.edu>
To: sa-cyborgs-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
<sa-cyborgs-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 8:31 AM
Subject: silence


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>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...
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>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:).
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>sometimes i wonder if my writing shuts up everyone because they're not
>sure *what* the darn stuff is;)
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>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)
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>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
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>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.
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>so how do we do this? suggestions?
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>silence....
>:)
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>Tell me about this silence...
>what makes a list silent?
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>lack of purpose?
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> purpose under whose definition?
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>content?
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> content validated by who?
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>or is it the way we approach the word
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>as too sacred to throw about?
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>too sacred not
>to rhyme
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>as Shakespeare
>did
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>too sacred not to prose
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>as Bacon did
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>too sacred not to
>Theorize and pontificate as
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>so many of us academics do
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>too often...
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>i wonder.....
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>we had 109 members a couple days ago - and i can only wonder why we don't
>just have 1...
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>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.
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