From: Mary Keller <m.l.keller-AT-stir.ac.uk>
Subject: post-colonial responses
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:04:31 -0000 


Dear Rhadika,

Thanks for the post--I'm headed to the web.  I will be giving a paper in
Nov. at the American Academy of Religions regarding Rosi Braidotti's
cyberfeminism and her move to activism with UNESCO and the WED debate
(women, environment, and development).  She's arguing for a Deleuzian model
of subjectivity as the underlying theory of subjectivity for life in the
paradoxes of globalization and the unequal distribution of resources because
she sees in Deleuze an ethical imperative for the subject to be able to
sustain itself through the experience of being shot-through by intensities,
pulsions, flows.  I'm taking a trajectory from her argument to think about
the different mileages that bodies undergo (the body of the cyberfeminist
needing to sustain itself as it is dispersed through the interface of global
reach  accumulates one kind of mileage while the body of the subsistence
farmer accumulates a radically different kind of mileage in her travels to
water sources, fields and markets, but both mileages are nevertheless
embodied and related to each other through the unequal power relations of
globalization).   I am interested in other people's thoughts on the
relationship of cyberfeminism and sustainable activism.

Mary Keller
University of Stirling