Subject: so what is this list about anyway?
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 11:21:21 -0400


not just "creative writing"
not just "women writing"

not just "cyberculture writing"

thus the continual listmutations...


>SA-CYBORGS IS A LIST BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE SPOON COLLECTIVE
>
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>This list focuses on interactive, experimental creative writing with an
>implicit focus on gender, race, class, caste, sexuality, age, geographical
>location.... etc identity issues pertaining
>to voice and voicelessness, silence and resistance, Self and Other
>narratives...
>
>perhaps, maybe
>mestiza ecriture (see http://www.cyberdiva.org/erniestuff/wryth/mestiza.html
>perhaps, maybe not
>
>If you have questions, send a message to radhik-AT-bgnet.bgsu.edu (Radhika
>Gajjala - technical liason and moderator of sa-cyborgs)
>
>see archives from http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons.
>
>________
>also see for a glimpse at some of listmutations - (the listmutations are a
>part of my quest to see if we can indeed "design" interactive online sites
>that are actually dialogic in some way - this includes listmutations that
>occured in relation to the technicalities and everyday "duties" related to
>managing a list (which aren't much, usually, but as list-owners know
>there's a different back-stage organizational - or chaotic - perspective
>added on ...)- leads to questions of what really *is* "dialogic" in virtual
>practice - yadayadayada)
>
>http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~radhik/wryth/sa-cyb2.html

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What kind of migratory subjects emerge in Digital Diaspora, at the
intersection of the local and the global? Is writing in "cyborg- diaspora "
(Karamcheti, 1992) across contexts necessarily "empowering"? What issues
and dilemmas are posed for resistant "native informants" and "diasporic
postcolonials" within digital spheres of interaction? What happens to
"postcolonial" subjects/texts when they emerge online? What bodies and
boundaries seem to matter in cyberspace? What tactics and strategies might
postcolonial digital subjects (often analogous to the
postcolonial intellectual), adopt in trying to deny the neocolonial gaze, and
activate their role as "unreliable narrators" (Visweswaran, 1994) without
totally
disappearing themselves from the digital sphere and silencing themselves?

Addressing such questions will entail a discussion of the manifestation and
reconstitution of a colonialist, developmentalist discourse in relation to the
transnational/global digital sphere and an interrogation of (im)possible
subject
positions as "native informants," "representative Others" and "postcolonial
intellectuals" in relation to questions raised in debates that emerge within
postcolonial feminist and transnational feminist theories. Rather than
examine the
postcolonial subject within the binary framing of "victim/victor," it might be
better to examine the subject that emerges along the axes of complicity/
resistance,
metonomy/metaphor (Jarratt, 1998) and to examine the (im)possibities for
examining emerging subjects and their identities as "mestiza ecriture"
(Lunsford,
1998).