Re: [-empyre-] race, net-art, strategy

[Katherine Moriwaki <kaki@kakirine.com>]

Dear list, all:

At 16:18 31/07/2003 +1000, Ian S. wrote:

> Not "feel positively", I meant respond to positively in an evaluative sense.
> Difficult is often most challenging and therefore most rewarding.

Ian, I'm not sure what you mean by "respond positively in an evaluative 
sense."?? Could you explain a bit more?

> When I see this darker, unreasoning part of myself represented within an
> artwork I recoil. This is a successful work, in my evaluation. On the other
> hand, when I see this complex relationship with my own identity represented
> in simplistic and bombastic terms, I do not respond positively to the work
> and I get the sense that it does not have much to offer me.

Could you provide an example of this? I guess am just really confused and 
curious about how and when this occurs to white men, since it seems to 
happen to me (and I am guessing many other people who are non-white) more 
often than I can count in literature, books, tv, media, and art.

-k