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12.04.00, 9:34 p.m.
Um, okay, hi. I drew these pictures on the site.
Please do not do as Tony O. Champagne, staff artist for the
Times-Picayune in New
Orleans, did and use them in illustrations without my permission. One, I
appreciate being notified of their use, and two, it's totally lame to
just take 'em, use 'em for an article about weblogs and not even bother
asking. Let alone not even mentioning or citing the source or URL
anywhere. That's doubly rude. Jerks. (Thanks to the other Icky for
sending the paper, though.)
8:05
a.m.
To: "CULTSTUD-L: A listserv devoted to Cultural
Studies"
Subject: Re: [cultstud-l] Globalization = shift in the
permeability of boundaries.
<<I'm suggesting that
the impulse toward "globalization" was
energized
when white persons began to break through the rigid structures of
their own society, and that black persons were the first "other" that
inspired them to
do so.<<
I so did not want to get into this globalization
discussion, but I do need to point out that the "defiance" of white individuals
who (for instance) "go native" or otherwise seek to emulate/absorb/consume "the other" hardly constitutes
a radical shift in uneven social relations, and sometimes
reiterates them, global or not. (See Harvery Keitel's character in
"The Piano.") And I don't think this phenomenon began with
globalization nor that globalization is all that benign (i.e., in the "we
are the world" sense). Moreover, I'd also argue that whiteness is
incredibly agile and capable of absorbing all kinds of imagined "transgressions," and
the quality of "inspiration" is most definitely up for debate
(i.e., what's the line between inspiration and appropriation? how does
it function within the context of historical and social
relations?).
No coffee for me, but definitely a cold pill or
two. Cough, cough....
Mimi Nguyen
Comparative Ethnic
Studies
UC Berkeley