Date: 	Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:57:35 -0500
Subject: list focus


Fili,

I am glad you like it - however I would like to request you send your 
personal emails to me to my personal email address and not to the 
whole list. Please keep in mind what the focus of the list is when 
posting to the list.

thankyou,
r

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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/political/economic/spacio-temporal/geographic...
issues pertaining
to voice and voicelessness, silence and resistance, Self and Other
narratives... we produce "writerly texts" [writerly texts -see Barthes -
interrup conventions of reading/writing and require readers who participate
in meaning making - online this can happen visibly only if you participate
on-list..."readerly texts" on the other hand, are those which fulfill our
expectations of conventions that allow readers to be passive consumers...
this is not the goal of this "list"]
participation and disruption are thus necessary and invited ... if you wish
an uncritical appreciative non-dialogic audience for your writing - join
another list.
But rude, sexist, racist, classist and so on interruptions will not be
tolerated. join with an open adventurous mind. don't expect to understand it
all. There are no organized dictionaries for the unsaid, yet-to-be-said, the
silences and refusals of counter-hegemonic narratives.... nor should there
be...


perhaps, maybe we produce
mestiza ecriture (see http://www.cyberdiva.org/erniestuff/wryth/mestiza.html
perhaps, maybe not

There is a "moo" component for sa-cyborg-writing - if you  wish to join
cyberdiva/cyborgwati in co-creating - just drop by - at linguamoo or
mediamoo - sign on as guest if you are not a regular on those moos and find
Diva's shack (media moo) or Diva's Hut (lingua) - if you need more details
or have never "moo-ed" and would like to experiment - or wish to set up a
"staging" time, contact me at radhika-AT-cyberdiva.org . To quote Lee-Ellen
Marvin a moo performer - "The experience of being logged into a MOO is
something like participating in the rough draft of a novel" or prose
poem...?

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.

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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 (see http://www.cyberdiva.org/diaenetworks.html) .


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At 1:38 PM -0500 3/12/01, fili houtman wrote:
>so i have read it Radhika. i think it s a fairly good idea to do it. 
>i encourage you warmly all the girls in the USA who have something 
>to say.
>I am myselves a white girl, with that difference i have only the 
>Native blood in my veins, and also i too like sex (the clito, is 
>that how do you say in anglishe) in french we say la pipette :] but 
>i beleive each pipette is working differently anyway :]
>
>thanks for the papers
>
>Fili Houtman
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