Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:32:36 -0500
Subject: Re: list focus


in my grad seminar, i might ask my students - what are the contradictions
emerging in this situation;-)

meanwhile fili - the url you sent to the list suggests that you are hardly a
silenced majority on the net.

r

At 07:43 AM 3/13/01 +0530, you wrote:
>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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