Blogging Desires

cheekay, i have no answers to the question i asked, either, but i am thinking within the arbitrary frames of cyberspace as an effective medium that blurs the borders of the categories that we almost take as natural in the physical world. donna haraway (cyborg manifesto) explained this well, but i would like to add to the discourse something that can be useful for the feminist emancipatory project, especially the male contribution to it. if we view cyberspace as a medium that shifts our focus from color, race, sexual orientation, affectional preference or genital morphology, if u will, to the self-ascribed characteristics of virtual representations, then isn’t cyberspace a promising emancipatory space for identity representations? when we approach representations this way, the very concept of representation can possibly take an additional stance apart from posing as a symbol of the bodied person. in fact, representations can also take a political stance, which is as useful for the personal as it is for the marginalized and for all the others who support the political causes of the marginalized. phew! just thinking out loud.