Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:13:09 -0500 (EST)
From: "Cyberdiva (a.k.a \"Radhika Gajjala\")" <rxgst6+-AT-pitt.edu>
Subject: Re: Diaspora


Okay - I'm back really and virtually in front of my own computer.

anyone have any comments on how "diaspora" is  implicitly (or even
explicitly) part of the
commodification of and celebratory rhetoric about
"cyberspace" as "space" for a community not always possible "IRL"

(I don't know if i pointed this out before - but my use of "RL" vs
"Cyberspace" binary is purely for "convenience" - the academic need to put
everything in binaries etc, i guess - but i do consider this separation to
be false and the binary itself is part of the commodification of the
internet as [and here i'm kinda citing someone i met recently] a "utopia"
with no boundaries - a *glob* or a *blob* - remember the mci add?)

also in response to Judith's earlier post about "guilt" etc as
psychoanlaysis - i do agree (Debbie Gordon has an article in "Women
Writing Culture" that discusses the academic ritual of "situating one's
self" - and increasingly i think this is becoming nothing more than a
performance of honesty)- but i do think that exploration of one's own
location should be necessary....



more later,
R

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