Eliza Jane Darling
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I teach at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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At 2:03am on July 24, 2009, Nold Egenter said…
OK, it worked! Remember our discussion? Have a nice day!
At 2:01am on July 24, 2009, Nold Egenter said…
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Wanted to send you thumb on Bollnow. I do not know whether this can read the picture. Hope it gets through.
At 2:23pm on June 10, 2009, john hutnyk said…
and nice wallpaper. Good to read the exchanges you had here over The Rules. I'd laugh out loud if I had the right app to make it happen. hahaha.com perhaps? be well J.
At 1:02pm on June 10, 2009, Philip Carl SALZMAN said…
Eliza, welcome back to Anthropology of Iran. Please add your voice to the discussions, or add a new discussion, as you like.
At 10:04am on June 10, 2009, Keith Hart said…
Eliza,

I hope your last message doesn't mean that you are withdrawing from the OAC again, this time voluntarily. We would miss you. I haven't even got round to responding on Obama, race and war. I think you like to make harsh judgments in vivid language. OK, that's your right. But if I went through your public utterances with a knife as sharp as you have put to mine, it would not be hard to find inconsistencies and some things that are plain daft. I haven't done so because I have been trying to build this thing up while being snowed under with other stuff.

I decided to address you publicly here rather than in the thread because I want you to know the constraints we are working under, some of them too personal for that thread. This week I have had to write a paper, organize a conference, edit a collective volume, co-write a textbook and organize travel for several groups, not to mention family and social life. The other administrators have been traveling from the US to Belarus, taking their daughter round various colleges while communicating by Iphone, running a conference etc. We are scattered around 10 time zones and hardly know each other. I have only met one of them before.

You say that we don't even seem to agree with each other, but then why should we and how might we reach agreement for practical purposes under the above circumstances? Yet you feel able to describe us as some sort of counter-revolutionary clique, when you know that the OAC is already the most open organization of its kind within our field and likely to become more so when thing shake down.

I think there is a difference between trying to avoid the pitfalls involved in setting up something of a scale and type that none of us has managed before and offering unconstrained commentary whenever you feel like it. I started a small version of the OAC, the small-triple-a 15 years ago in Cambridge. Most of the principals knew each other and could meet face-to-face. Try as we did, it was hard to avoid appearing to outsiders like a close group of friends. The people who launched the OAC met on Twitter not long ago.

I draw inspiration daily from the extraordinary variety of our new members. I have exchanges with many individuals who do not participate in public forums and some of them find it all rather strange and even intimidating. I expect the OAC to become a broad-spectrum organization catering to many needs and tastes and not just a club for a few avant-garde activists. I hope you stay here.
At 7:07pm on June 7, 2009, Philip Carl SALZMAN said…
Welcome back!

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