Project title "Theory Heads: Language, Society, Culture, Power and Discourse in Everyday Wrything" This work is based in my larger body of research/practice that mostly explores technologically-mediated subjectivities (differing modes of agency made possible and/or impossible within various technological environments) - mapping intersections of theory/practice within diverse communities of production. Thus cultural production and agency in the contexts I examine (ethnographically and dialogically) are clearly linked to the economic modes of production and to political and social ideologies. Central questions guiding this project "How are subjectivities shaped in (multiple) technological environments across time, space and place?" "What (discursive/material) agents are produced through the intersection of theory and practice associated with specific technologically-mediated contexts?" My approach to the exploration of these questions in the MOO context is to performatively place various theorists (some not known to the western Academic world) in dialogue. I will be building various objects that will function to create environment and discussion and curiosity in various ways, inviting visitors (implicitly and explicitly) to engage with familiar (to them) and unfamiliar theoretical frameworks. Performatively speaking, they will be encouraged to inhabit a certain kind of subjectivity based in the context(s) I build. The project is cross-cultural and international in nature, for it draws on the philosophical and spiritual knowledges/experiences/explorations of various participants in this project (and there is an open invitation for people interested to participate) - as well as that of students and colleagues and family members participating in some way directly and indirectly. The intention is to build objects symbolic of Eastern, African, European and American "theorists," poets, bards, singers, spiritual icons, fictional characters, mythological characters, hollywood characters, bollywood characters and so on - portrayed through interpretive lenses of personal experience and re-examinings of meanings in relation to postcolonial negotiations of the everyday. The goal is to eventually build a larger virtual space where other participants can come in and build into this multiplicity of dialogues - but that may not happen on PMC2 moo necessarily (to this end, Pratap Gajjala and I, with the help and advice of various programming gurus, are designing a moo space which we intend to launch sometime in the summer or fall of 2004). This setting also functions as a pedagogical stage for my graduate students and co-authors working on related projects (they are also built in as objects and as theorists in various ways), and I get to explore the pedagogic potential of this virtual moo space in relation to various philosophical and epistemological debates about the virtual/real. You may find me and my various homes on PMC2 -moo [feel free to sign on as guest and when you get there, type @go perhaps ; @go denise ; @go Robert's ...], Linguamoo and Mediamoo Should you wish to participate in this project - please apply by sending me an email describing how you see yourself fitting into this plan. http://www.cyberdiva.org/erniestuff/theoryheads.htm