Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 08:43:55 -0400
Subject: list info - update on changes ...     


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*The theme* for this period starting July 1999 -

The politics of "virtuality" in relation to place, culture, race, gender,
class, religion, caste and so on... 
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This list focuses on interactive, experimental creative writing with an
implicit focus on gender, race, class, caste etc identity issues pertaining
to voice and voicelessness, silence and resistance, Self and Other
narratives...

It is an actively moderated list, in that , posts will be approved by the
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reviewers - sought out on the basis of their understanding of issues
surrounding the focus of this list, their understand of being interactively
online among other things and their sympathy for experimentation in
writing... ) will be making "editorial" decisions. 
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suggested. Feel free to suggest themes.

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Gajjala - technical liason and moderator of sa-cyborgs)


> What are the boundaries between "RL" (real life) and "VL" (virtual 
>life) if any - what are the boundaries between "global" and "local" - where
>are we going with writing (wrything) online, where writing is existence 
>and not-writing disappears voices...
>
>what are the possibilities and (im) posssibilities of our 
>transborgized selves merging textually into each other's context - the
>implications of which are not yet fully (may never be fully) understood... 
>what can we produce in these dangerous encounters of the "self" and "other" and
>"other" as "self" - the blurring, the surfing, the wrything....
> 
> cyberculture and identity. wrything the cyborgian body.
> cyber-chronicles, "rl" chronicles, sci-fi articulations, doing the
> cyborgian dance on a cyber-kailasham -
> 
> the fears, the uncertainties, the excitement, the cynicism, the
> transborgification....
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> this is the list.
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