ANTH245-2007-11-19

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Blogs and|as Selves

Business

• Final papers -- please discuss
• Responses -- new plan

Recap

• Salam Pax and Second Life
  • What kind of community?
  • What kind of person?
• Lyotard and Manovich
  • These activities are a kind of databasing of the self
    • the representation of self-hood in new media
    • not merely passive -- since self *is* text to some degree [ASK--What is self?]
  • Posts on the network
  • Thwarting the language games ...

Segue

• "Vulgarity"
• Selfhood
• Community

The Vulgar Spirit

• Blog as a "speech genre"
  • Private diary? Personal letters? Op Ed? News?
• The Vulgarity debate
  • High-brow vs. Low-brow blogging
• Hegemony
• Deep Play: "cultural sites where multiple levels of structure, explanation, and meaning, intersect and condense, including the cultural phantasmagoria that ground and structure the terrain on which reason, will, and language operate but cannot contain."