Subject: Re: list focus
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 07:43:42 +0530


in ohter wrds
dont silence me...:)
a.
----- Original Message -----
From: fili houtman <filihoutman-AT-hotmail.com>
To: <sa-cyborgs-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: list focus


>
>
> dear rhadikha,
>
> i apologize strongly about missing the point the other mail, the fact is
> that i don't see why is this mail i sent to to be considered as
> experimental, gender, culture oriented, and so that  i at least was seing
it
> while writing and sending it, both in consideration of the focus of the
> list, and the few archival i browsed a few days back. no my intention was
> also to bring more papers brought to the list which semt somehow
inexistent,
> though the focus is quite interesting and deserves attention. also because
> it is relevant to my work now as artist, and see my url:
> http://www.geocities.com/ostya_ciutat/ICenter.html
> i hope the next mail you send me will clarify further along the ways you
> want me to send my messages to the list. i don't understand anything of
the
> following, it could not be experimental, nor gender, so you could not send
> it also (excuse my anglische..) lol!!! see ya later, fili h:
> >
> >SA-CYBORGS IS A LIST BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE SPOON COLLECTIVE
> >
> >______________
> >
> >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...
> >
> >
>
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