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rm writes to me in an email (hope you dont mind that I am blogging that part - but there was nothing majorly personal - besides we are going to use it in our article - and this post in itself does not need to be a private post methinks?:))

"i think the dialogue really puts the nature of blogging in the center and expresses much more abt the whole subject than a dry article (or even a content analysis) would! :)"

this is about centering process - my cyberethnographies to date have been that - whatever the internet-mediated form - the method(ology) must examine the process of be-coming in that mediated environment.

so am glad you are taking to it!

So R writes on his blog :

"And then, what does "institutional power" have to do with the blogs project? Where is the power manifest in the blogsphere - or is the blogsphere a reaction to the "institutional power" in the real world? By writing these blogs, are South Asian queer writers appropriating that "power" for themselves? A reflective question: do I not feel powerful when I write? Do I not feel... uninterrupted? "

If I may interrupt... the straight upper caste NRI academic that I am ... in one sense participating in a certain center of discourse production even though I started in margins different from the bloggers you speak of?

In one sense participating in a certain center of discourse because I was never part of the margins maybe same as some of the bloggers you speak of?

But really in certain senses based on our everyday practices and participation in community - we are not at all marginalized.

What practices do we privilege/center (yes I am saying this - that - when we say we are in the margins - we are complicit in the production of the center) when we claim to be in the margins?

So what - I ask - what if blogging makes you feel powerful? Why does it make you feel power at all? What are the conditions of this blogger production? The notion of power perhaps needs to be unpacked somehow and perhaps the specificity of the notion of interruption allows us to stop and ask -yet again - how do you define power?

writing relationally

would mean writing

in relation

to

reading relationally

would mean reading

in relation to

we always do that

but to be actively doing that in reading blogs...

only infrequently is there something I relate

to

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