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Revising a previous opinion in light of new evidence




Weblogging is not art. Not journalism. Weblogging is not Gricean charity. It is not full of "memes" and it is neither a prisonhouse of language nor a slippage of signmaking. It is neither sincere expression nor fractal fictionality. It is not an electronic frontier, or an ocean, or a letter, or democracy, or a marketing box. It is not a primary color and also not a secondary color; it is transcendent, but also immanent (thus neither); it is not dog, not cat, it is not war but is rarely nice, it rains and it pours, but sometimes it never does; weblogging is not a genre; it is not the future; it is not rubber, not glue, not a lie, not true.

     Very well then. You hide in negatives. What is weblogging?

Weblogging, my friends, is a charnel-ground meditation.

(And I mean that in the nicest possible way.)

posted by Turbulent Velvet on 04/24/2003



3 Comments



Do you remember how in Wings of Desire the angels inhabit the library?


Posted by Bibliophage
April 27th
1:53am



Let me urge you to rethink your revision. Your previous opinion (which I've only just read) is very intriguing. I like the 18th-century epistolarity angle: as you note, letter-writing was not a private genre (though not quite public either: probably best described as social.)


Posted by Invisible Adjunct
April 29th
5:19pm



Since I only get letters from my family these days, the blog is a fine substitute for the other kind. I like to think of it as an apostrophe. Only the style is direct. ;)

I'll let the main Denizen do the theorizing about it, though.

ZOK


Posted by Zoot Organizing Kit
May 1st
1:12am




You want to know:

-- Who are you people?
-- What is this?
-- How do I write you flattering emails?
-- Where are your best entries?

You want to go:

-- to the main page
-- to the archives
-- to the GM forums



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