Having spent two otherwise useless hours reading posts, I feel inspired to become an active producer in the community (I will NOT be a lurker, I will NOT be a lurker). I have constructed this to be a kind of autobiographical meta-post (or, a self-indulgent post about posts) complete with academic chapter titles. Virtual Abjection: Me/Not Me Conflicts in Cyber Culture(s) Those of you who look to see who these messages come from may have guessed that my given name is not Stewie but probably Stewart. Though the name pretty much boxed me into a life of geeky academics, it has never caused any real trouble; that is, until now. Perhaps due to the fact that I have never heard the name Stewart used to identify someone besides myself, I am now filled with joyous expectation that someone has or is about to acknowledge me whenever I see Stewart, Stew or Stewie (Stew Dawg also works). So I was on a bit of an emotional roller coaster these past two hours as the name was mentioned quite often - producing expectation - yet never in reference to me - producing disappointment. I guess I should have expected this as the one thing we all have in common is a band with not one but two Stuarts (though I don't think they spell it right). Does this ever happen to people called Rachel? The Radical Body in Motion Mad props to Cay Cola-Cube for the Emma Goldman Signature. You've reminded me to get my own. Nation-state-ness as Performance: Utopian/Democratic Rhetoric, Distopian/Fascist Desire (This is a response to Mike's right-on rant.) When I was in the process of getting onto this list, I, like a good listee, read about the crush thing. My first thought was - I shit you not - "This is great!! I'll meet someone from Scotland, England or some other non-U.S.A. country and get married and, in addition to having the love I have always dreamed of, I will become a citizen of someplace besides this place." I don't want to make some sort of whinny argument about it, but if sides are being drawn in accordance to national boundaries (which, interestingly enough, are all but irrelevant to the corporations that are the biggest global terrorists) then I think I am in the wrong spot. Not that Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Philippines, Iraq or any other poor nation Bush is trying to annihilate seems better (or that Scotland, England etc. are totally innocent) it just really pisses me off that this blood thirsty cow boy takes his (highly questionable) election as a mandate to speak for everyone and does so like we all agree. Please don't think we do and please, someone, marry me soon. Anyone from Sweden? I'm a great kisser and I have a Volvo and an Ikea ... uh ... catalog ... uh ... somewhere ... Well, now I'm all flustered which should make class interesting. Take care and if you can't be good, be good at it. Stewart [Amour Fou is always illegal, whether it's disguised as a marriage or a boyscout troop--always drunk, whether on the wine of its own secretions or the smoke of its own polymorphous virtues. It is not the derangement of the senses but rather their apotheosis--not the result of freedom but rather its precondition. - Hakim Bey] _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+