Following on from last post's comment on gendering of the Web... it occurs to me that the Web won't be or can't be successfully gendered by in the way I suggested. Just because feminine terms out-rank masculine terms, etc. Bibliometric brute force won't make the Web pink nor blue. Many reasons for this (maybe more on the subject later), but the main idea is that since we can't 'gender' the Web, it remains for the Web to increasingly disrupt basic identity categories of us... that is, the tabs that we use to build up identity (gender, race or ethnicity, languages, others) will be subverted and (forgive the term) fractalized by the Web's presence in/on our bodies. There's something important here about the body really becoming a proving ground now for Haraway's feminist cyborgs, but I haven't thought it through yet...
Libraries as repositories for gestural web choreography?
Librarians as break dancing cardboard kings, pulling up the ghostest in the machine with the mostest?
Library programs on new paralanguage affectations based on efforts to disguise covert face-to-face real-time tagging of your interlocutor?
Wild stuff on its way.
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re: haraway more:
http://criticalanimal.blogspot.com/2009/06/biopolitics-of-michael-pollan-and-donna.html
http://bumblejim.blogspot.com/2009/06/21st-century-relationships-did-donna.html
http://dprpatterson.blogspot.com/2009/05/in-1985-donna-haraways-now-famous-essay.html
http://rantnrave-88.livejournal.com/6460.html
http://www.iqdupont.com/blog/2009/7/12/communication-control-haraways-investigation-of-the-shift-fr.html
http://yasminlist.blogspot.com/2009/07/re-yasmindiscussions-r-re-ethnic-cyborg.html
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