Blog
This blog
At various times I’ve given myself writing exercises, and this blog has been one of them. The specific practice? Writing economically and beautifully, writing what’s necessary to me.
In that configuration the blog has served its purpose. I also wished for online conversation about the ideas that I was presenting, and I loved the responses that I got, but they were minimal.
Beauty, the body, love, and pleasure remain my subjects, though writing about current political and social issues has an allure. Lately the Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrest fascinates me, as do issues centered on media and privacy, especially the privacy, indeed anonymity, of any average citizen on the planet. Part of my interest in media concerns ways in which the brain changes according to how one habitually uses it–living a one-screen-to-another life profoundly changes human beings. The most exciting material I’ve read about media is Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media, which was published in 1964. Much more interesting than recent publications like Hamlet’s Blackberry and The Shallows.
Many of the posts that I deleted I’ve incorporated into other projects.
I want and need to write intimately, and a blog, for me, is an inappropriate place for that. So, we’ll see what happens here as it happens.
