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Anyone can write. About the blog strategy. Facebook and sleight

"Why is writing important? Mainly out of vanity, I suppose.

Because I want to be that person, a writer,

and not because there is anything I should say. " (From the diary of Susan Sontag)

A lot has happened to them: blogger activity emerges at times like an exercise in descontracturación. Before
blog, I personally used to impose secrecy to the texts he wrote, and I decided to show them until you have the "conviction", (which almost never came) that were moderately acceptable. The virtual notebook tool allowed me to interact differently with the script.
The blog came to be that platform for the instability. The ability to present ideas generated at times spontaneously. The peace of mind that you can, if you will, that circulation to remove text that does not convince us to finish or undertake corrections and re-publish it. And not to mention expanding the diffusion capacity. Not to speak of a "detachment" that has the writer on the texts of his own.

The point is that it seems that the blog is changing our idea of \u200b\u200bwriting .
Yes folks, the use of blog, brings queues. Here are some:

1 - Mixture between oral and written .

Plato adjudged to texts written some fixity, and hence the inability to respond to the questions of the potential reader. This is what it says in the Phaedrus :

"If a letter is insulted or dismissed unfairly, you always need the help of his father, because by itself is unable to repel the attacks and defense."

is no coincidence that this thinker chose dialogue (shape that resembles the oral tradition), to disseminate their ideas.
so that, if before writing differed of orality was among other things:
- vs. fixed nature. fluency,
- continuance in time vs. immediacy
- different forms paratexturales: vs. typography and illustrations. gestures and intonation, etc.,

us agree that on blogs (including textual virtual exponents) these features have mixed , which has resulted in a written language less "straightjacket ", say. This particular flow is a relative of the written word once in private, such as diary and personal letter . This last blog has also inherited the ability to feed-back immediately.

2 - The Comment possibility.

While blogs are "locked" for exclusive access to its author, the blog-specific contribution to our relationship with writing is easy and immediate interaction . The comment that you install on your post gives us views, criticism, cries of adhesion or rejection, or just invitations to their own blogs or sites who eventually came in ours.
Of course, comments can be "moderate" and even "eliminated" by the blog owner. That concerns the exposure of themselves as part of our "work." (Al comment, the commentary becomes part of the post, he catches it.) But we must recognize that this rapid exchange was quite difficult in book culture.

3 - sensory relationship with the writing is not the same as before .

few years ago, when he was a member of the journal The Fabulario , I had the opportunity to dialogue with the author basically a project that contrasts with the blog phenomenon. The project was a water issue, an editorial in Salta that aimed to highlight the embodiment of the poetic word from an artistic treatment of paper on which was printed the work. The role thus becomes an integral field of writing. With the use of handmade paper pages generate unique and unrepeatable.

Significantly, this proposal arose as radical in 97, hot on the heels of the rise of its antithesis, the blog .
The commitment to the materiality of the word underlined it really was missing: a sensory relationship with the book and expanded the language, in a time when the book began to vanishing to become virtual.
Thus, the relationship with books and notebooks involving the tactile, visual and olfactory why not blogging is reduced to essentially flat visual.
course, dwell on the materiality the blog is for another post.

4 - From the intimate to the extimate.

With the blog, the intimacy can be made available to the public so fast, without mediation of intermediaries (publishers, booksellers). Paula Sibilia
, in his book Intimacy as spectacle, the blog says:

"Most modeled confessional diary or rather extimate daily, according to a pun that seeks to accounts of the paradoxes of this novelty is to expose our privacy in global showcases of the network. " (o. cit. pg. 16)

course, have to see how fictional is in this intimate exhibition .

5 - Revolution in our spatial coordinates instituted for reading.

The blog has the possibility of link. The haunted maze Borges, the idea of \u200b\u200bbuilding a "labyrinth of symbols," ( The Garden of Forking Paths is example of this), a rhizomatic story with parallel stories, with simultaneous and alternate endings, hypertext is presented in the blog.
The chances of exceeding the linearity imposed by a Western language whose coordinates are "right to left" and "top down." Now is the "inside", "behind", "below" (in the sense of hidden). The decline, the expansion of what is compressed.
Our ability to appreciate being configured to this new reading.

6 - The possibilities of correction: the finality not .

The blog may well be a site of experimentation, a laboratory. Has the way urgent, a special liveliness, the need for constant attention and renewal. These possibilities provide some reassurance to the blog writer. There is a spontaneity in the expression of ideas.

7 - Question "aura" of "authorship."

When Walter Benjamin ( The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ) talking to mid-twentieth century loss aura of works of art, linking the phenomenon to mass culture and the use of technical resources that allow playback, among other things.
In the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, which could have had a unique presence takes on a massive presence. This is not new in literature, has been going on since the invention of printing. But Benjamin stops at a phenomenon that involves the production of writings: the gradual disappearance of the distinction between author and public . While readers initially significantly exceeded the number of writers, from the expansion of the number of print readers became writers - if you want casual - multiplied. "The reader is always ready to become a writer," said Benjamin.
Now The blog is a product of the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. The blog opens
dikes of possibilities for emerging writers, thanks to how easy it is to open it and write it. So the blog is working with the loss of the aura of literary works, especially with regard to authorship. In the following:
- Anyone with the use of hand can be a writer of blog. Today, it is easier to write a blog to publish books or get the press to disseminate our ideas.
- Willing as it is for anyone who wants to access, has implied the possibility that their content be copied, reproduced, appropriate. Authorship dissolves.
This is not only important aesthetically, but also has political interest. Because we are dealing with another digital resource that promotes what Mercedes Bunz call "the utopia of the copy." According to the author, utopias, which seemed to be fading as a political program, now reappear in the discourse around digital. The resource identical copy is a blaze of Utopia (Book: The utopia of copy)

Thus, the author sees the use of identical copy attacks the dominant logic of the economy showing things work differently, questioning the usual order and supposedly natural.

The blog also, then, can be trench attack the established order in which the copyright rests. This is the era of the fragility of copyright.

The question is whether this situation also affects the type of writing that has blogger for widespread dissemination via the Internet. (Is it left for the blog which is not included in the book?)
In general, Argentine some writers have used the opportunity to spread the blog allows to release a series of papers, prior to the publication of a book.
This means that dimensions can complement publication. Do we prefer that over and not missing?

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The other night, while looking statements "inspiring", printed on labels of objects on my desk and my bookshelves, I found suddenly a booklet the size of a coaster, published in 1970 by Editorial Cosmopolitan, called conjuring tricks. " I opened it at random and, in addition to a series of instructions such as "how to make a cigarette disappear," I found a passage that gives some tips for being a good magician. Reading it I found that these recommendations may well be used by the attentive facebook user. He then elaborated this essay in which I compare facebook with an act conjuring.

Guys, do your grace

Here are the tips (the numbering and ordering are mine):

1 - "Do not forget that require submission sleight of news, otherwise we run the risk of producing fatigue in the viewer. "

For those who take their interventions on facebook as a game of controlled exposure in the context of relationships diagrammed for that purpose, delivery of news under the guise of "my state" or "my pictures" or "news" among other common applications, is a recurring practice when not necessary to continue to be perceived, a way of giving to the other entity. Never as true as you stated here idealistic Berkeley "being is being perceived", which identifies the perceived reality.

This entity must give us build us a spectacle calculatedly, our "friends" are the "spectators" of our "privacy." Guy Debord present. Paula Sibila , too.

Yes, facebook is the new workshop and storage for the development of our privacy.
Thus, the regular at Facebook may well be compared to a magician in the show must dispense news, preferably in an entertaining way, to make the game run its course. The "minute" is an imperative. Facebook is the fabric of every minute.

2 - "constantly innovate and act with grace and amenity is as important as the game itself"
Have you ever noticed that almost no aggressive actions offensive on facebook? Is it because everyone chooses their relations framework? Perhaps, but there are a whole system designed for welfare. You can remove a friend in a way so fast as breathtaking. You can report abuse, but above all, can define the scope of our visibility to other . We choose who our friends can do this or that photo or message, or an invitation to events, and those without, for example.
The advice to the magician: "personality, friendliness and good amenities that are the qualities preferred in a magician", you may find a facebook user.
(This policy of selective friendship has always given me to think that facebook is a kind of country: an area enclosed by private security. It is one of the distinguishing features of the facebook, blog, or my space, between al.)


3 - "We must convince the public that what one says he is doing, is making really, although this is not true ..."
not in our daily life can escape the illusion. A representation. Guy Debord already said in his book "The society of the spectacle." But Facebook, the density of its virtuality, gives free rein to this possibility.

4 - "The magician must also ensure that the public help him, unconsciously, in its purposes."

without describing our unsuspecting friends, the establishment links, summaries, notes, photo album covers, can be an important resource to bring our viewers continue walking the path that we propose. To continue playing our game.

5 - "The ideal scenario is one in which the public can only be placed in front, so that there can be no observers around the illusionist"

facebook is also in this kind of relationship in two dimensions. Our viewers are located in a bi-dimensional virtual space. Access to land they propose, but can not surround.

6 - "Not to be committed the mistake of giving back to the audience the "

Facebook is the place where the faces are shown, from the front. Without ruling out alternative practices and cut photos, fake photos, pictures more or less abstract, and even cartoons and caricatures, the role of the "profile picture" on facebook is the frontal presentation of the faces. It is, in general, the face, the ambassador of the embodiment of our "friends." Body image is often cropped to the height of the face. To the best American high school yearbook style (it is said that Facebook was started as fuckbook) .

On the face, there Deleuze's words that push the limits what happens in facebook.

I have not talked to tricks, the art of the magician. But is that all of the above is "the" trick of sleight-inhabitant of facebook.

So the more we promote the ability to play and recreational tool of identities that we "allowed" to facebook, the more interesting our tricks are virtual.

regard of tricks, Second Life has the potential of recreating identities, subjectivities to its highest expression. Read here.

** The fragments and the photos were taken from: sleight of hand. Series: The handy helper. Edit. Cosmopolitan. 1970. Buenos Aires Page 7 of 26.