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March 02, 2005
oh, hell.
after shaking my head at derek for the past week insisting "don't derail me, don't derail me, i have to make everything i do work toward my thesis!" i just realized that the thing i want to study & understand in many ways already is a network problem, a networked site, and inherently networky rhetoric (as if there were any other kinds).
i've been pretending blogs are peripheral, as if they didn't somehow end up damn near the center of that brightly-colored web on becky's door. i've been pretending that because of the medium's restricted access and its newness & its in many ways functional remove from the rest of what composition pedagogy denotes it was somehow a separate or at least separable entity.
i wrote "weaving" in that imaginary prospective diss-title just today, & didn't even notice that i had six degrees face-down on the desk, with watts doing whatever he was doing then with threads and woven metaphors.
blogging (ring the duh-gong) is writing. its features, despite the way the specific medium of the blog is to varying degrees unlike the other media in which writing is conducted, are more or less pronounced, articulated, stretched into prominence & interconnection... but the features of writing it makes more visible, more evident, more study-able are still features of writing.
and weaving, in the context of collaboration & bringing together voices both deliberate and unacknowledged, both identifyable and unrecognizeable, means writing not in a cell (hit the gong again) but as a point among points in a loosely-woven--nothing at all like a fixed-ratio lattice--matrix of interconnected voices.
Posted by ttobryan at March 2, 2005 08:59 PM