At 15:22 13-11-98 -0800, you wrote:
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>being the kind who likes to sit in the middle of the room and interrupt,
>rather than raise my hand, I figured I'd just jump in without the
>hand-raising part.
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>I am an eternal graduate student. It will be forever. I have accepted my
>fate. BUUUUUT seriously folks,
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>my research interests have been diverse, to put it mildly: as a result I
am now
>wholly committed to cross and interdisciplinarity in research.
>(Horkheimer, he thought so too)
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>so, broadly I'm interested in issues of identity and culture, transformation,
>revolution, rebellion, anarchy, and political anger; I am a reluctant
relativist
>when it comes to...everything moral and ethical.
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>Let's see. My diss is looking into video ethnography from a - er -
>perspective which I am using, culling from 1900-1940s Art Theory,
>contemporary queer theory;
>Teresea de Lauretis's brilliant brilliant" technologies of gender";
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>and folks Dorothy Smith (the smartest woman in north america, I think)
> Frederic Jameson, Raymond Williams,
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>and so like structurally what I'm thinking is about how to consider the
>sociocultrual relations which merge in the practice/activity of video
>ethnography, that is, the relations between
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>video - art - technology - methodology.
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>all how all these mingle in identity performance.reconstruction etc, : who
>are the players in video ethnography?
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>Oh. WOW. Like, way more than we need to know eh? Sorry. for my verbosity.
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>so it's all part of a larger project to develop film or video documentaries
>and write
>screenplays. And I wanna speak at Harvard one day, by invitation. I
>mentioned that didn't I? I'd like to be famous. Very much. And wealthy,
>that would be cool because I could become a philanthropist then. I'd like
>to be on Oprah one day too, as a consultant, maybe talking about a book I
>wrote, or a screenplay. Or ya. I 'd like to publish a book.
>
>(aaaaah shaddup already Hodges) - Oh ya, I might as well re-"out" myself as
>a radical dyke. short shoes, sensible hair, something like that.. ha ha.
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>diane
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Phil Graham
pw.graham who-is-at student.qut.edu.au
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