2007/8/10, pavlos hatzopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We are also happy for the discovery. Blogs are tools, and so are pens, but > you *cannot* write anything you want with them. Tools determine the limits > of what you *can *write.
How does a blog limit you any differently from a pen? > Blogging invites and celebrates banality On what evidence do you base that conclusion? People are using blogs to publish all the sorts of things that they previously used pens for: scientific research, fiction, journalism, political manifestos, everything. > when bloggers attempt to give a different > picture of the 'personal', which is immanently political, which is > inherently transgressive they are brushed aside. And you think that phenomenon is unique to blogs? I'd say it's just as strongly associated with pens. Ben # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
