Where I come from we call your dance the ethnic sidestep.
Mark
At 02:36 PM 1/25/2001 +1000, komninos zervos wrote:
>At 07:12 PM 1/24/01 -0800, mark wrote:
>>I guess you really want to continue with this. OK. You posit a psychic, or
>>perhaps interpsychic, place where the dispossessed live, even those, like
>>many aboriginals, who have never lived the traditional life of their people
>>in the traditional places of their people.
>
>no i posit an oral culture that does not record or centralise its texts but
>distributes them amongst its population and is carried forth in the
>memories(ie it exists in mnemonic space) of its people.
>this endures dispite the ethnic cleansing which at times has been official
>australian government policy.
>
>
>
>>This, substituting other tribes,
>>could be the touted geist of nazi myth, by virtue of which each group and
>>its individual members was exceptional--a German is a German, even if his
>>native language and culture is, say, Russian, and a Jew is a Jew no matter
>>how many generations his forebears have been assimilated into the larger
>>culture.
>
>i think it was alison who said you can't compare a literary culture to an
>oral culture, so your comparison of other tribes here may not hold.
>>
>>I apologize to the Australians on this list for jumping in--the ideas here
>>are sufficiently noxious and international to permit me having my say.
>>
>>Mark
>>
>>At 11:55 AM 1/25/2001 +1000, komninos zervos wrote:
>>>please explain
>>>amigo
>>>
>>>
>>>At 03:45 PM 1/24/01 -0800, you wrote:
>>>>At 08:26 AM 1/25/2001 +1000, komninos zervos wrote:
>>>>>although terra nulius was disproved on proof of ownership of land, i
think
>>>>>the indigenous population of australia existed and exists today in the
>>>>>spatial mnemonic that is not landscape.
>>>>>despite all attempts of genicide and clearing of the aboriginal people
>from
>>>>>the land, there are still other spaces where they exist, which are not
>>>>physical, which will never be able to be conquered, surveyed, sub-divided.
>>>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>That's what I call romanticism, pardner. And it probably helps you feel a
>>>>sight better than it does the aborigines.
>>>>
>>>>Mark
>>>>
>>>komninos's cyberpoetry site http://student.uq.edu.au/~s271502
>>>cyberpoet@slv site http://www.experimedia.vic.gov.au/cyberpoet/
>>>komninos zervos, tel. +61 7 5552 8872
>>>lecturer in cyberStudies,
>>>school of arts,
>>>gold coast campus,
>>>griffith university,
>>>pmb 50, gold coast mail centre
>>>queensland, 9726
>>>australia.
>>>
>>>
>>
>komninos's cyberpoetry site http://student.uq.edu.au/~s271502
>cyberpoet@slv site http://www.experimedia.vic.gov.au/cyberpoet/
>komninos zervos, tel. +61 7 5552 8872
>lecturer in cyberStudies,
>school of arts,
>gold coast campus,
>griffith university,
>pmb 50, gold coast mail centre
>queensland, 9726
>australia.
>
>
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