Dying to blog
Posted on | July 19, 2005 |
Interesting: for a memorial lecture later in the year, Axel is trying to establish a list of blogging’s first martyrs. Have your say here. In light of this furtive discussion as well, the premise of such an exercise makes me wonder whether the act of memorialisation is the principal institutionalising moment for a new medium - particularly its scholarly significance. Which then leads me to wonder, why does death necessarily work as the basis for recognition in this situation?
Now I write this, I see another link between my twin interests in cultural studies and ‘new media’ as fields of intellectual inquiry. In both cases, I’m observing how the rituals of academic knowledge production affect - and perhaps by reifying, empty the present potential of - the political discourses otherwise evident in their formation.
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