RE: [-empyre-] Size matters?

["Charlotte Frost" <charlotte@digitalcritic.org>]

>>Into the "nagging woman" box I suspect :7
Touché!!! Lol!!! This made me smile for the duration of the email! Nagging,
moi?!

I like your idea of listening, I might let that one reverberate for a while,
I certainly hadn't though of it like that, and it raises an interesting
issue with the amount of interest/disinterest involved...

>>Of course, gender (and race, and..) suffuses the questions of what we see
as our shared world as well as our strategies >>for making reference to it
through explicit or implicit links. And then of course there are the
intra-group reactions, >>where, for example, a female brings up a number of
questions around sociality that are met with a number of
technical/philosphical "solutions" that kind of miss the point lol.

I think this is why I was looking for more responses from some lurkers (like
me), because I will look like I am nagging if I take up Mathieu's suggestion
of reposting! It also made me feel a little like he was saying 'shhh Jim is
speaking, ask me later' - which I?m sure wasn't his intention! ;-)

The stereotypical testosterone text that Eryk Salvaggio refers to has been
brilliantly subverted in Marc Garrett?s Sleazy Art Meetings or SAM diaries.
He uses very sexually charged text to describe arts related encounters, but
the voices are female. This simple switch can turn it into pseudo-academic
porn. Check out SAM 9, which has an audio...
http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett/the_sam_diaries/docs/sam9.htm Anyway
this is another subject entirely, and I don't want to digress into too many
discussions of what characteristics constitute the opposite text!

>>Not that I'm not responsible for much of the same non-listening myself at
various times, but as a new list-owner >>(http://www.place.net.nz) I'm
fascinated by these questions - how long is an acceptable silence? how do
people feel that >>they're being heard? how do the decisions made by
moderators around the list's positioning, their own posts [or their nom de
plumes lol! I never suspected Melinda!] or that of others structure what is
or isn't possible to say? 

I am sure we all have listening issues, but at what levels and what can be
done to turn up the volume on the voices that are missed in all the noise.
Before I started this stint on empyre, I began to wonder if lists are less
about discussion and more about the exquisite corpse, where merely adding is
what is important or if that which is always missing is equally as
important? I believe Josie Berry Slater said lurkers are important because
they provide the element of the unknown which can unsettle even the most
prolific poster. So maybe lurkers have to lurk? In which case I should just
shut up! ;-)

>>but I'm probably showing too much length already. 
Hang on, if I am a nagging woman, aren't I supposed to think size DOES
matter?! ;-)

Charlotte