Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 06:49:40 -0400
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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... "women" 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 creative *self*writing. 
There are implicit rules - even if not all clearly articulated in the info
sheet - see archives...  (contradictory as this may sound -
there are a variety of theoretical and practical reasons for the implicit
and explicit rules - based on my
experience online since 1994 that I can cite - feel free to try and discuss
these with me *off-list* sometime). 


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/