Thinking about the sorts cues, conversations, presences and absences that either re-place us or dis-place us - online or offline….

We will in a world on constant and interrupted conversation mode online and offline….

working on this blog post - will finish it later…

From my post to Radha ki Betiyaan pvt blog:

Okay - even though everyone [on RkB] almost is on facebook and some are on twitter - and several of you may have individual blogs. And we have once again started mass emailing each other.

This is still a different way of being, communication in this “space” we call Radha ki Betiyaan.

I am returning to posting and getting a sense of how I feel as I post in each of my many blogs - or some.

So I blogged some research notes on my livejournal - that only a. has an account on amongst all of you - and has access to when I set it to a certain type of private post setting.

I will go blog again on my cyberdiva.org blog and other spaces (all semester my students and I have been on tumblr.com because we are class blogging there).

Facebook allows different kinds of interactions - scattered and sudden and on impulse even. Twitter allows me to be very very scattered with no dialogue until I or someone else on my twitter list chooses to (similar to facebook status responses - but not with such a potentially large audience - so its not that kind of theater).

I’ve noticed that many many in P’s generation and S’s generation have a custom of keeping public blogs. The public theatricality of bloggling, facebook and twitter (and I am not even getting into youtube here because I speak only of written text) subconsciously shaping their way of being…

Add to this mix the act of posting and typing via Iphone interface.

thinking aloud and ending abruptly as always with my thoughts in-progress (and this is part of the website culture that I started out in since 1990s and that continues now in blogger culture)…

I have felt the need to disappear from the public blogosphere for the last several months.

Not because I have given up the idea of blogging or that I have not had thoughts to blog about.

Nor is it because I was shying away from public online spaces - I have been tweeting and facebooking quite avidly. But my etsy and ravelry were comparatively slow too - and my room of stash and handloom is sitting unattended as well.

I have had a lot happening research wise and personal life wise and will get back to a bit of regular blogging after I am done with more writing and reading deadlines.

Sometimes a blog is just a blog

not a place

and sometimes a body is just the body…

that cant exist without a place

news 9
Author: Lumper (asleep) (#4719)                          Subject: News
Last Update: Monday, May 12 2008

No News Is Good News
– —- — —- —-

After a long stay in our current environment, we will need to pull up
the tent stakes and migrate our server once again.  There may be some
disruption as the machine is ferried across to a countryside setting.

We may want to take the opportunity to upgrade the operating system . . .

- oom
——————–
mail
I don’t understand that.  (type `help’ for help)
@who
Participant    Connected    Idle time    Location
———–    ———    ———    ——–
cyb (#16287)   a minute     0 seconds    Diva’s_cloud

Total: 1 participant, who has been active recently.

_____look
Diva’s_cloud
a cloud of course!
But if you like
you may call it
a Theoretical Head shop.
You see diva’s tent, perhaps it’s melissa’s metaphor?, reality_tv, sv_temple, her_Indian_grandmother, Our Lady of Guadalupe, dome’s cracked mirror…, against_the_current, the_basement, and IPC411 here.

______

IPC411
lots of students. some lost, some not quite sure, some just strolling along, some having a load of fun.
You see watching_IPC and inner_circle here.
stop watching
You want me to WHAT?  (type `help’ for help)
look at watching
This is a surveillance camera.  For help on it, type: help #2886.
The surveillance camera is turned on.
Status: Recording.
help #2886
Generic Surveillance Camera (#2886):
—-
*****************************************
*     This is a surveillance camera     *
*****************************************

It records everything in the room it’s in.  From players talking to
emoting, from players moving in and out to players sitting down
or standing up.  And it records anything said by any object in the
room also.  It’s able to stay on for 24 hours (or more) and recording
everything in it’s sorroundings.  If the camera happens to be recording
and it get’s turned off, you’ll have to turn it back on and push the
record button again.  This was to make it a bit more realistic!

COMMANDS:
push record on <object name>  -  starts recording
push play on <object name>    -  starts playback
push stop on <object name>    -  stops playback and recording
push erase on <object name>   -  erases everything recorded
turn <object name> to on      -  turns the camera on
turn <object name> to off     -  turns the camera off

Any errors and/or bugs, please report them to me!
—–  Ashley
push stop on watching
You press the button stop on the surveillance camera.
push play on watching
You press the button play on the surveilance camera.
Fri Aug 25 07:31:29 2006 EDT —> who_am_i teleports out.
Fri Aug 25 07:31:29 2006 EDT —> who_am_i seems to have left the room without saying goodbye.
Fri Aug 25 07:32:16 2006 EDT —> who_am_i teleports in.
Fri Aug 25 07:32:16 2006 EDT —> who_am_i enters the room somehow.
Fri Aug 25 07:32:20 2006 EDT —> inner_circle teleports in.
Fri Aug 25 07:32:20 2006 EDT —> who_am_i dropped inner_circle.
Fri Aug 25 07:32:27 2006 EDT —> who_am_i teleports out.
Fri Aug 25 07:32:27 2006 EDT —> who_am_i seems to have left the room without saying goodbye.
Fri Aug 25 12:31:45 2006 EDT —> lost_guest teleports in.
Fri Aug 25 12:31:45 2006 EDT —> lost_guest enters the room somehow.
Fri Aug 25 12:31:50 2006 EDT —> Saturn_Guest teleports in.
Fri Aug 25 12:31:50 2006 EDT —> Saturn_Guest enters the room somehow.
Fri Aug 25 12:32:52 2006 EDT —> lost_guest says, “hi rhadika”
Fri Aug 25 12:33:03 2006 EDT —> lost_guest says, “oops i spelled that wrong”
Fri Aug 25 12:33:46 2006 EDT —> lost_guest asks, “ask am i on your cloud?”
Fri Aug 25 12:38:11 2006 EDT —> Saturn_Guest has disconnected.
Fri Aug 25 12:38:11 2006 EDT —> The housekeeper arrives to remove Saturn_Guest.
Fri Aug 25 12:38:11 2006 EDT —> Saturn_Guest teleports out.
Fri Aug 25 12:38:22 2006 EDT —> lost_guest asks, “where is sysay where is cyberdiva?”
Fri Aug 25 12:40:14 2006 EDT —> lost_guest has disconnected.
Fri Aug 25 12:40:14 2006 EDT —> The housekeeper arrives to remove lost_guest.
Fri Aug 25 12:40:14 2006 EDT —> lost_guest teleports out.
Thu Jan 15 21:55:14 2009 EST —> cyb teleports in.
Thu Jan 15 21:55:14 2009 EST —> cyb enters the room somehow.

_______

IPC411
lots of students. some lost, some not quite sure, some just strolling along, some having a load of fun.
You see watching_IPC and inner_circle here.
enter inter_
I don’t understand that.  (type `help’ for help)
look at inner
This is the generic multi-communication channel for use with the multi-communication feature (#1954). If you wish to open a new channel, @create a descendant of #2457 and @xregister it. You must be using the multi-comm feature to do this (@addfeature #1954).
Shamelessly stolen from Sick@LambdaMOO.

out
The details are kinda hazy but you are no longer where once you had been.
Diva’s_cloud
a cloud of course!
But if you like
you may call it
a Theoretical Head shop.
You see diva’s tent, perhaps it’s melissa’s metaphor?, reality_tv, sv_temple, her_Indian_grandmother, Our Lady of Guadalupe, dome’s cracked mirror…, against_the_current, the_basement, and IPC411 here.
enter perhaps
The details are kinda hazy but you are no longer where once you had been.

perhaps it’s melissa’s metaphor?
Seems multiplicitous and freeing, and yet in a way it is inescapable… permission denied to get out of melissa’s own world view, no matter how open she sees her world view as… no matter how non-concrete she thinks it is. [Type ways to find exits out of here].
You see derrida, bhartrhari, humpty-dumpty, observing the metaphor, aura, and chitraguptini here.
aura | cyb teleports in.
(chitraguptini) cyb teleports in.
aura | cyb enters the room somehow.
(chitraguptini) cyb enters the room somehow.

I woke up this morning thinking of Dominance and Rebellion and wondering what the story of the slayer of Kings known as Parasurama would tell me today.

Why did the two avatars coexist in the telling of this myth?

- the one reinstating a particular form of governmentality - Rama

- and the one systematically demolishing Representatives of Authority - Parasurama

what does the schizophrenia of the moment of their co-existence tell us about the Avataric existences

in today’s Global cultures?