Comments on: Fibreculture Journal Launched http://creativitymachine.net/2004/01/30/fibreculture-journal-launched/ Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:22:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anne http://creativitymachine.net/2004/01/30/fibreculture-journal-launched/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Anne Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://creativitymachine.net/2004/01/30/fibreculture-journal-launched/#comment-111 Thansk for the link Jean. I just read Esther Milne's article, <a href="http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue2/issue2_milne.html">Email and Epistolary technologies: Presence, Intimacy, Disembodiment</a> in which she looks at the different types of presence and intimacy afforded by the writing of letters, postcards and email - and I wonder where blogs fit in? Thansk for the link Jean. I just read Esther Milne’s article, Email and Epistolary technologies: Presence, Intimacy, Disembodiment in which she looks at the different types of presence and intimacy afforded by the writing of letters, postcards and email – and I wonder where blogs fit in?

]]> By: jean http://creativitymachine.net/2004/01/30/fibreculture-journal-launched/comment-page-1/#comment-112 jean Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://creativitymachine.net/2004/01/30/fibreculture-journal-launched/#comment-112 Anne, that's a good question - the fantasy of a present audience whose number and social identity can only ever be approximated is always there when we write, isn't it, but I think more so when we write online, and especially when we write on our weblogs. Not to mention the way we "feel" the immanent presence of the personality behind blogs we *read*, in a way that isn't true of printed material...Has anyone written anything yet on "liveness" (or presence - whatever) and the weblog genre?? I'm sure you must have had some thoughts on this, or you wouldn't have posed the question? Anne, that’s a good question – the fantasy of a present audience whose number and social identity can only ever be approximated is always there when we write, isn’t it, but I think more so when we write online, and especially when we write on our weblogs. Not to mention the way we “feel” the immanent presence of the personality behind blogs we *read*, in a way that isn’t true of printed material…Has anyone written anything yet on “liveness” (or presence – whatever) and the weblog genre??

I’m sure you must have had some thoughts on this, or you wouldn’t have posed the question?

]]> By: Anne http://creativitymachine.net/2004/01/30/fibreculture-journal-launched/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Anne Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://creativitymachine.net/2004/01/30/fibreculture-journal-launched/#comment-113 Believe it or not, I most often ask questions because I don't know the answers and I'm curious ;) And I can't recall reading about presence and weblogs anywhere ... At first glance, most weblogs employ the performativity associated with being on stage - my friends refer to my blog as my "Look at me, look at me!" project - and some blogs seem caught between the intimacy of personal letters and postcards. Believe it or not, I most often ask questions because I don’t know the answers and I’m curious ;) And I can’t recall reading about presence and weblogs anywhere …

At first glance, most weblogs employ the performativity associated with being on stage – my friends refer to my blog as my “Look at me, look at me!” project – and some blogs seem caught between the intimacy of personal letters and postcards.

]]> By: Jean http://creativitymachine.net/2004/01/30/fibreculture-journal-launched/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Jean Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://creativitymachine.net/2004/01/30/fibreculture-journal-launched/#comment-114 Your friends are kinder than mine! I think if we compare your blog with a livejournal that we can see the mistakenness of referring to weblogs as a genre in the first place - it would be like referring to a multi-track computer disk audio recording as a genre of music. Hmmm...but I guess the genre boundaries between kinds of blogs are very blurry as compared to, say, books, where you have a whole range of production and consumption practices, institutional locations, marketing strategies etc. that define each genre...which is a bit removed from what we were talking about in regard to intimacy and presence, but interesting nevertheless. Your friends are kinder than mine!

I think if we compare your blog with a livejournal that we can see the mistakenness of referring to weblogs as a genre in the first place – it would be like referring to a multi-track computer disk audio recording as a genre of music. Hmmm…but I guess the genre boundaries between kinds of blogs are very blurry as compared to, say, books, where you have a whole range of production and consumption practices, institutional locations, marketing strategies etc. that define each genre…which is a bit removed from what we were talking about in regard to intimacy and presence, but interesting nevertheless.

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