---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: River . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Apr 26, 2005 9:28 PM Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Re: Hypertextual Poetry: A Study of MSN PoetryCommunities To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Keith, I think I am condemned to be stuck with this today! Definitely exhausting, but I will try to respond to a couple of the insightful comments that you made. I agree with you when you say that the triad of book/idiot-box/hypertext is a limiting one. It is Moulthrop's triad and there is no reason for us to accept what he says as gospel. The point that Vivek and you raise about the Anglophone nature of such groups is something that I had discussed in passing in an earlier post* and will take up in more detail in forthcoming ones. Moreover, the issue of where poets are from, territorially speaking, is one of the seminal themes of my research and will occupy a lot of space in future discussions. Regards, Nitoo. [*Reply to a query by Rahul Asthana, dated, 1st February, 2005: You are right. English is the language of the net and I have felt the inconveniences of having to use the Roman script for words which are in Assamese or Hindi in the 'original' handwritten versions. Even if I have the fonts required for the words, and manage to paste them onto the pop-up, the reader would not see those words. It will seem like a lot of gobbledygook to her because, a) since she doesn't have the font installed on her computer, the words will appear on her screen as meaningless symbols and b) because she would not understand the references anyway…font or no font. I am still trying to work out what this can mean, good or bad; I have no idea. You have to remember that you, as Rahul Asthana, may not understand the Assamese references either; whereas, my hypothetical cyberreader will have the benefit of what I have come to call, "the instant annotative link". ] _________________________________________ reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. Critiques & Collaborations To subscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in the subject header. List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/Zx0JAA/yqIolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Did you get this mail as a forward? Subscribe by sending a blank mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/join. Members are encouraged to post poetry, their own and others', respond critically to the poems circulated, and participate in discussions. Post via email at [email protected] OR online at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/post. ---theZESTcommunity-------------- [1] ZESTCurrent: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCurrent/ [2] ZESTEconomics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTEconomics/ [3] ZESTGlobal: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTGlobal/ [4] ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/ [5] ZESTPoets: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ [6] ZESTCaste: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ [7] ZESTAlternative: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTAlternative/ [8] TalkZEST: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkZEST/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
