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zvi_likes_tv: This is a paradigm shift - the idea that a piece of writing is isolated by the boundaries of its page or its volume is completely untrue on the web. And writing a connected, unbounded document requires a different way of organizing your thoughts, an assumption that people aren't going to read what you write in isolation, or straight through, or only while holding a vague idea in their head of what happened that other time you're kinda sorta dancing around. -
- yeloson: You left me outside and now you want in - Maybe the question you need to ask, isn't "How can I say this so they understand?" but instead, "Why does this person with this level of intelligence not understand already?"//Or maybe you need to ask if you still want to be paying the price of admission to play in those circles, or if you need to be charging your own admission and opening up your own. -
- rm: Con Behavior: Clues for Free - The following is a list of things I should never, ever have to say[...]//Yet, every single one of the issues raised below transpired at this year's Lunacon (either to me directly or as reported to me by people I know and trust or loudly in the same room I was in), often more than once, and it's just simply not okay. -
- kynn: On the so-called "Race Fail" - But what can I do? They forced me to write this post. You know who - that dark, shadowy cabal of groupthinking sockpuppet trolls. The women of color on LiveJournal. They forced me to respond, because they kept writing about race, and writing about race, and writing about race, and they just would not stop. So now I have to speak up, and hopefully they will see this and realize it's about time they stopped. -
- moondancerdrake: The Clue Train - Sadly, what is happening far too often, is that we are loosing passengers off the back of the train, as hard as we try to keep them with us. Some jump off to join the people trying to derail us. Others are sadly pulled off by friends and family (afraid of our bad influences?) "for their own good", and still more fall to their own doubt and fears about moving forward and making the changes that need to be made. -
- egretplume: Word Fetish Digression on Boycotts - But my question is: so what if it is a boycott? What's wrong with a boycott? Will some writers be boycotted "undeservedly"? I don't know who decides what the threshold is. How racist is too racist? But suppose the world is swept with a passion for abiding by bloggers' boycotts and these authors gain a reputation for racism. So what? -
- littlebutfierce: on one's own library as self-defined safe space - Our house is my safe space, my sanctuary. This covers obvious things like comfy furniture & snuggly blankets, but it also includes filling it with reminders that there are other people like me in the world; that there is resistance to the system of white privilege that tells us over & over that we are lesser, not human, not worth anything. -
- tielan: a thought on "the Other" - What is unfamiliar can become familiar if one has an open mind, a spirit of acceptance, and a willingness to self-examine. But the Other will never be Like Us because they are Other and we are Not Other. The language itself limits POC to the realm of Not Like Us -
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acari.livejournal.com: Monday, March 23, 2009
Fri, Mar. 27th, 2009, 04:59 am
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countess-baltar.livejournal.com: Reply to: This is a paradigm shift
So, I read Resisting the Kindle, and, frankly, I had a lot of difficulty understanding it because the author wasn't very clear about what he thought the book (and its associated infrastructure) affords as a system of knowing and learning.
I didn't have a problem...or I wouldn't have thought I had a problem until I read all this postmodern literary theory stuff in order to understand the underlying assumptions being thrown around LJ.
But, anyway, this is my interpretation of it. When an author writes a book, the author is granted the "safe space" to structure and organize the story or thesis before it reaches the reader. By reading several dozen or hundreds of pages, the reader has the opportunity to consider the author's context and sources. If the author for some reason words something badly, it's a pretty good bet it will be expressed differently before the end. The reader does not have the power to derail the author's story or argument. The reader is forced to "listen" to the author. This used to be called "reading between the lines".
If one reads history books, diaries, or collections of letters, then the author's frame of reference to events becomes more clear. If there is a description of a British court levee, the wife of the American ambassador is going to take 5 or 6 pages to describe it in detail because she is observing it for the first time while a British Duchess describes the same event in two paragraphs, and then focuses on some bit of delicious gossip that has particular meaning to her social circle.
Recently I've noticed that a lot of writing done in the last 10 years or so has a bland, superficial feel to it. Yeah, there's lots of linking and citations but it doesn't appear to have much thought put into it or that the author has an understanding of the depth and width of the genre or discipline.
There's still a lot of information preserved in books that is not on the internet or unavailable to the average user because the link leads to a website that wants some horrid fee to read an article in some journal.
P.S. How charming. Another person who has banned me from directly posting because I'm not following the party line. Now how is that to be taken as anything other than the user wielding their "privilege"?
Fri, Mar. 27th, 2009, 12:36 pm
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acari.livejournal.com: Re: Reply to: This is a paradigm shift
If you'd like people to read what you have to say, post in your LJ and give us the link. Frankly, commenting here is pointless.