Re: [-empyre-] blogs cum. academia

[saul ostrow <so5@nyu.edu>]

Brando first the discourse shaped by its history tries to adapt the technology
to itself -- then the technology goes to work reshaping the discourse -- the
nets information glut which was first understood to be a resource -- the world
at your fingertips -- has now begun to infect not only academic discourse but to
actually blur the nature of academic disciplines -- in part because the means
accomplish more than the limited goals originally set for them --  yet
ultimately if the technology does not serve the discourse it soon comes to be
abandoned -- we can also talk of transitional forms - which blogging would
appear to me to be -- i.e.. it is something that is formally possible and may
produce interesting possibilities which will eventually lead to it a abandonment

Saul