> Ravi asked "[a]nyone interested in using identi.ca for quick exchange of
> short messages (i.e., Twitter)?" I am interested, but of course the
> use-value of such applications varies in proportion to the number of users.
> For reasons not clear to me, however, I usually am unable to convince
> leftists to adopt such new technologies, as supplements to mature
> technologies, for political agitation. Oddly, this is also true of many
> Marxists, who, it seems to me, ought to know better.
> epoliticus
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Haraway dealt with this kind of (often) anti-tech sentiment among feminists
- twenty years ago - by articulating a clear argument for cyborg
subjectivity - one rooted historically, technoscientifically and embodied
situated and partial knowledges rather than through the pursuit of
naturally, culturally or politically essentialized discourses and
transcendental values.
At the same time, I think many folks resist these kinds of developments simultaneously for fear of long and difficult learning curves and Baby Boomers/academics/leftists' sneering disrespect for Gen Y's perpetually chaotic "lack of focus" and the "meaningless" of always-available/always-in-touch quick-and-dirty communications.