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By katrienjacobs, Section whatever... Posted on Fri May 2nd, 2003 at 10:17:20 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Even though I am new to weblogging I sense its power to generate a kind of intellectual freshness. I am an academic, writer, performer and based in the USA. I have been experimenting with writing styles and performative modes, sometimes in collaboration with my students, and notice that the web can generate unusually sharp ideas and conversations in very short amounts of time. It has been daunting for me to observe the clash between academic quality and other qualities of the mind.
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I believe that intellectual conversations can glow when you make a slight shift to intellectual identity, adjusting perception and communication mechanisms, pampering the body and the environment in which you work. Since most of my own writing is about sexuality and integrates my own embodied and forthright sex writings, it has been a bomb for academic establishments. I intend to use the blog to develop ideas and writing styles that are suitable to my current state of mind. As academics we feel an acute pressure to make observations from `outside' the object of study. To challenge this point of observation, I would like to write from within myself and sex cultures. Where am I located now? I believe that I am currently sitting in the `s/out'. `S/out' is short-hand for `sleep-out,' a self-made home-depot style `veranda' that is added to an existing building. People build sleep-outs when they believe that their homes are becoming too small. Sleep-outs are small, entrepreneurial spaces where you may find a comfortable couch amongst piles of trash and discarded magazines. It is where the edge of the household is located, not a ghetto nor fancy bureau, but an improvised space connecting main room to the garden. What else? I just think (hope) that many of us web academics feel a need to make a shift in language, gestures and as we sit here playing with ideas.
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