Comments on: Blog as Narrative Archive http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog-as-narrative-archive/ falling indelibly into the past Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:56:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Working Blue » blogumentary: storytelling on web 2.0 http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog-as-narrative-archive/#comment-3152 Working Blue » blogumentary: storytelling on web 2.0 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:57:21 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=359#comment-3152 [...] The blogumentary format also allows for multiple layers of narrative, with language and perspectives mixed into a single entry. Some have written about the blog as a narrative archive. [...] [...] The blogumentary format also allows for multiple layers of narrative, with language and perspectives mixed into a single entry. Some have written about the blog as a narrative archive. [...]

]]> By: Francois Lachance http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog-as-narrative-archive/#comment-676 Francois Lachance Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:20:35 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=359#comment-676 <p>Jill Walker at jill/txt has written about blogs as feral hypertexts. The contrast between <br /> domesticated and tame might perhaps address some of the interstitial issues that arise in attempting to characterize blogwork as either a database-driven model of tabular display or a sequence generated by narrative imperatives. Jill’s paper is accessible using the following URL <br /> <br /> <a href="http://jilltxt.net/txt/FeralHypertext.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://jilltxt.net/txt/FeralHypertext.pdf</a> </p> <p> I signal this alternative because in my reading of Kinder I keep stumbling against the implied grand narrative of the union of opposites, a figuration of marriage (bonding in one body) as a resolution of confrontation. There is strong Hegelian constrution to the way Kinder uses aspects of Manovich to write a scenario of the fusion between database and narrative. Kinder tends to overlook the “cinema _as_ database” line presented by Manovich. A close reading is forthcoming… </p> Jill Walker at jill/txt has written about blogs as feral hypertexts. The contrast between

domesticated and tame might perhaps address some of the interstitial issues that arise in attempting to characterize blogwork as either a database-driven model of tabular display or a sequence generated by narrative imperatives. Jill’s paper is accessible using the following URL

http://jilltxt.net/txt/FeralHypertext.pdf

I signal this alternative because in my reading of Kinder I keep stumbling against the implied grand narrative of the union of opposites, a figuration of marriage (bonding in one body) as a resolution of confrontation. There is strong Hegelian constrution to the way Kinder uses aspects of Manovich to write a scenario of the fusion between database and narrative. Kinder tends to overlook the “cinema _as_ database” line presented by Manovich. A close reading is forthcoming…

]]> By: Chuck http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog-as-narrative-archive/#comment-675 Chuck Sat, 01 Oct 2005 18:06:26 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=359#comment-675 <p>This is one of the problems I have with narratives (newspaper articles, Tribble pieces, etc) about blogging, too.  In particular, I like your description of “good” and “bad” blogs, simply because I think it is often gendered in the ways that you describe.  And, of course, anonymous (academic) blogs also get this label. </p> <p> I also like your theorization.  It’s certainly not just rhizomatic.  The diachronic structure is crucial (which was an argument I tried to make for an article I ended up dropping). </p> <p> My blog tends to be a little too serious for its own good, but the time-based structure has been very useful for me, especially when I go back and revisit earlier film reviews as they inform my more professional/academic writing projects. </p> <p> I look forward to seeing where you go with these ideas. </p> This is one of the problems I have with narratives (newspaper articles, Tribble pieces, etc) about blogging, too.  In particular, I like your description of “good” and “bad” blogs, simply because I think it is often gendered in the ways that you describe.  And, of course, anonymous (academic) blogs also get this label.

I also like your theorization.  It’s certainly not just rhizomatic.  The diachronic structure is crucial (which was an argument I tried to make for an article I ended up dropping).

My blog tends to be a little too serious for its own good, but the time-based structure has been very useful for me, especially when I go back and revisit earlier film reviews as they inform my more professional/academic writing projects.

I look forward to seeing where you go with these ideas.

]]> By: Francois Lachance http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog-as-narrative-archive/#comment-674 Francois Lachance Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:38:13 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=359#comment-674 <p>KF, <br /> I am reminded of the cross-over piece of culinary exploration and blogging that was and is the Julie/Julia project. </p> <p> There is a mixed genre tradition in the Menippean Satire as a precursor to the novel as scrapbook. </p> <p> Patchwork. </p> <p> I keep thinking in reading your recent posts that perhaps you might find some value in Ted Chamberlain’s If This is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground. </p> <p> If you get a chance take a peek at it. I think it goes aways to capture some of texture of the theorizing you are doing with what I would call a “universal mundaneness” J. Edward Chamberlin is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto and in this book he comments with care and understading about the contradictory impluses of storymaking as a means to finding home and as a mechanism of dispossession. </p> KF,

I am reminded of the cross-over piece of culinary exploration and blogging that was and is the Julie/Julia project.

There is a mixed genre tradition in the Menippean Satire as a precursor to the novel as scrapbook.

Patchwork.

I keep thinking in reading your recent posts that perhaps you might find some value in Ted Chamberlain’s If This is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground.

If you get a chance take a peek at it. I think it goes aways to capture some of texture of the theorizing you are doing with what I would call a “universal mundaneness” J. Edward Chamberlin is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto and in this book he comments with care and understading about the contradictory impluses of storymaking as a means to finding home and as a mechanism of dispossession.

]]> By: DS http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog-as-narrative-archive/#comment-673 DS Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:33:10 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=359#comment-673 <p>I’m really glad to be able to read an outline of your ideas for the lecture here, as I am unable to attend the talk but was really interested in doing so.  I am new to the whole concept of blog, really, and am going through an interesting process of developing my opinions of it.  It’s fascinating. </p> I’m really glad to be able to read an outline of your ideas for the lecture here, as I am unable to attend the talk but was really interested in doing so.  I am new to the whole concept of blog, really, and am going through an interesting process of developing my opinions of it.  It’s fascinating.

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