Sunday, July 06, 2003
Cindy, the Gibson blog is really good, and comes at a good time for me. I want to write an essay about Neuromancer and David Byrne's True Stories. See my teaching blog for details.
Your latest tetrad is sweet and stunning. Your design instincts are phenomenonal. Quit wasting your time teaching comp! Pull together, if you haven't already, your book of technopoetry, and go get a real job.
One question: why do you see pleasure and liscence as the reversal of weblogging. Taken to its extreme, weblogging becomes pleasurable? Aren't we having fun yet?
I read one of the essays from the special issue of Biography about online diaries: THAT DIFFERENT PLACE: DOCUMENTING THE SELF
WITHIN ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS
ANDREAS KITZMANN
Biography 26.1 (Winter 2003) : 48-65.
Kitzman rejections analysis of online diaries as remediation or adaptation, but I am not sure why his notions aren’t compatible with bolter and grusin—plus his notion of technology as a “thing in itself” is very Kantian. His language is actually pretty close to McLuhan’s in various ways, and he brings out the notion of medium as material in effective ways. I think he might have fallen into the trap of finding “adaptations” to be deterministic, when in fact the medium is the massage very much acknowledges the material conditions of web-based self-documentation, even to the point where the generic differences (diary versus moo) makes a significant difference. The essay does make an interesting point about how bloggers and diarists are expected to present their real selves (this will interest you, sybil!), whereas people who go to MOOs, chat rooms, etc, are expected to create an online identity separate from them selves.
Blogging retrieves "authentic lives" ? I can share more on this piece later if you are interested, but in a nutshell, he makes some interesting observations, but takes a completely different (and to my mind, mistaken) theoretical - poetical approach than the one(s) we are working through.
Your latest tetrad is sweet and stunning. Your design instincts are phenomenonal. Quit wasting your time teaching comp! Pull together, if you haven't already, your book of technopoetry, and go get a real job.
One question: why do you see pleasure and liscence as the reversal of weblogging. Taken to its extreme, weblogging becomes pleasurable? Aren't we having fun yet?
I read one of the essays from the special issue of Biography about online diaries: THAT DIFFERENT PLACE: DOCUMENTING THE SELF
WITHIN ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS
ANDREAS KITZMANN
Biography 26.1 (Winter 2003) : 48-65.
Kitzman rejections analysis of online diaries as remediation or adaptation, but I am not sure why his notions aren’t compatible with bolter and grusin—plus his notion of technology as a “thing in itself” is very Kantian. His language is actually pretty close to McLuhan’s in various ways, and he brings out the notion of medium as material in effective ways. I think he might have fallen into the trap of finding “adaptations” to be deterministic, when in fact the medium is the massage very much acknowledges the material conditions of web-based self-documentation, even to the point where the generic differences (diary versus moo) makes a significant difference. The essay does make an interesting point about how bloggers and diarists are expected to present their real selves (this will interest you, sybil!), whereas people who go to MOOs, chat rooms, etc, are expected to create an online identity separate from them selves.
Blogging retrieves "authentic lives" ? I can share more on this piece later if you are interested, but in a nutshell, he makes some interesting observations, but takes a completely different (and to my mind, mistaken) theoretical - poetical approach than the one(s) we are working through.
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