Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 09:38:00 -0400
Subject: periodic info


[Last updated on: Sun Apr 29  8:25:39 2001]

SA-CYBORGS IS A (Moderated) LIST BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE SPOON COLLECTIVE

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NOTE: when sending a message to the list check for relevance - check
archives - please participate in the interactive exchange of creative
expression - and if using a web-based mail program like hotmail or yahoo,
make sure to disable the html/rich text format - not all subscribers recieve
messages through a web-based interface.

No messages to this list will be sent out without moderator approval.
Moderator approves creative writing, conversational,
reactions-to-writing-on-the-list type posts and other posts based on
relevance and appropriateness to the framing of this list and if they are
not rude, sexist, lewd etc - however in certain cases she will
either not approve and/or consult with sa-cyborgs consulting/advisory
collective (members tba) regarding the appropriateness of the response/post. 

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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... "wo-men" produce "writerly texts" [writerly texts -see Barthes -
interrupt 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 is thus necessary and invited ...
 
Note that the focus is on "wo-men's" subjectivities and *self*writing. The
editorial collective and consultants will decide if your writing qualifies
as such. There are implicit rules now (contradictory as this may sound -
there are a variety of theoretical and practical reasons based on my
experience online since 1995 that I can cite - feel free to try and discuss
these with me *off-list* sometime). 

Further updates to the list info are being written.

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) .

http://www.cyberdiva.org/wryth/sa-cyb2.html


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Radhika Gajjala
http://www.cyberdiva.org/
http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000/4425/
http://moo.hawaii.edu:7000/599/
http://scape.uta.edu:7000/3027/