All right, I’m finally bored enough to use this thing for general dissemination of info…
I’ll add a thesis rant so I’m still within the charter I originally set for myself (grin).
The first link is a Web archive of an e‑mail sent by Newsday reporter Laurie Garrett about the WEF meeting in Davos, Switzerland last month. It’s candid, fascinating and quite unlike most of what you usually read about these things.
The second is an equally fascinating discussion about how it ended up on the Web, Garrett’s reaction and the issues of privacy and public space. To me though, they’ve missed the point about what constitutes “civic participation”.
Meta-article about the distribution
Thesis rant: Just starting out on this weird little journey. I’m investigating marginal identity, specifically what I’m calling edge identities, people negotiating multiple marginality… I usually reduce this to: what do you do if you’re black and gay and the gay community is racist and the black community is homophobic? I think the usual answer people give (create a black gay community) is really essentialist and non-constructive, and I’m trying to find other ways of thinking about this. Right now I’m looking for (Australian) edge identity authors, and apart from Christos Tsiolkas, Lisa Bellear and Tony Ayres, I’m having trouble. But I haven’t looked very far yet.
One other thing: Apart from the_christian, no one commented on my story pout>. I’m trying to work out whether that’s because a) it was protected and none of you read your friends page while logged in, b) you all very sensibly avoided a post entitled “self-indulgent twaddle”, c) you don’t tend to read stories that are linked because they take too long and you’re looking for a quick fix, d) you have too many friends to bother with widdle old self-indulgent me or e) all of the above. Just wondering…