[Air-l] capitalism always lies?

[Art McGee]

> Politics, gender, race, (no evaluative order intended
> here), seem to be amongst the major factors influencing
> the ways that people interpret others and react to others
> online.

Thank you. I'm so glad we're on the same page. I know that
more learned scholars such as the folks in AOIR always knew
that, but there was a time, a very frightening and scary
time, when a certain cliquish set of privileged "white"
people were running around, writing articles in magazines
like Wired and Mondo 2000, and claiming a utopian vision for
cyberspace that completely ignored and dismissed issues of
socially constructed race and ethnic identity and their
effect in and on cyberculture and virtual identities.
Thanks to the cyberfeminists, issues of gender began to be
interrogated and discussed with much more frequency, but
"race" (along with class) was *always* left out of the
equation. I'm so glad those folks are all gone now. That
was a truly sad time in cyberspace history. I hope they
were able to get some help. A mind is terrible thing to
waste, you know.


Art