Archive for the ‘voice’ Category
writing self – march 2007
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“Vooru†– I punch that into the Padma telugu transformer – remember that at the theory cluster meeting they asked me if that was a form of insult.
But of course I cant cut and paste it onto the word document – but it works here – so maybe I should continue the notes here and set it to protected….
anyway to get the vooru in my word document (because Ileap or baraha wont work on the mac) I grabbed and saved…
“staging authenticities” by itineraries that never take us “home”?
what can I say?
whose voices am I consuming as I say
why can I not say
when you can
but yet you want their authentic voices
what I tell you cannot be trusted
that’s what you say
as if you had heard the authentic
yourself
then why do you need me to reveal it to you
if you know what it should look like?
evidence – and evidence of what and for who?
so what is the nature of evidence in the academe – who is required to provide what evidence and why…
how may you be made ready to hear the voice(s) you ask me/us to reveal to you?
why do you want us to reveal that “authentic” voice to you?
who decided that if I put something in quotes it becomes his authentic voice?
how may you be made ready to hear the voices you think you will hear if we reveal his words to you?
how would you know his “authentic” voice when you do not take the trouble to go there and hear it as a voice in context?
why do you wish me to pull forth his voice for you to pull forth with the click of a mouse
how does that make you the judge of whether or not it is really his voice
why is she assumed to be voiceless
when the conceptualization of “voice” is in your control
still
(k)no(w) you
we will not “give” you her voicings
you will just have to make the effort of trying to understand within what we write
or come down and try to translate it yourself – but be assured you are being watched as you
confident of your ability to translate
invade, capture and preview
hers
and
his
voice
so that they may be pulled up and analyzed and understood
even as you take their daily living away as in the capturing and replaying
you take no note of what they seem to be asking for
because the complexity of what they say cannot be captured, recorded, shifted and replayed
outside
de-contextually
where
all so that you may feel you are a part of the community of protest
you have replayed, captured and colonized his meaning
yet again.
