GOOD.
Okay, so the blog I decided to write about was I Cite's post entitled "All blogging is local". In her post she questions the reader's relationship to a blog author. Here she explores the idea that the reader takes her blog as a way to understand her as a whole, especially her feelings of loneliness. She understands that she's writing something autobiographical and she does indeed write about feeling of loneliness, but states that "I consider writing itself to be my main form of retreat from feelings of loneliness." So here we have the reader projecting, through no real fault of the reader, their own feelings onto the author. Alright, now I'm contradicting myself a bit. As opposed to my previous post, I'm now saying that the author is separate from their identity. But I still hold that the author does make a large contribution to that meaning that reader gets. I think autobiographies are a tricky territory as well. The post is all about the connection the reader has with a blog author as far as a personal connection, but I think that if there is a misinterpretation there then it falls under the category of measuring the author's contribution to their work's meaning. Does that make sense, or does it seem like I'm trying to connect something to something completely different? (Isn't that the best analogy ever? I'm going to print that baby out and tape it to my wall. That's art right there.)
3 comments:
I really like that you bring up autobiographies. I have no idea how that would play into the death of the author. The person living a life worth writing about is pulling all of those "centres of culture" together. I Cite brings up a point of whether or not blogging is "authentic". That can be applied to autobiographies, because the author of a biography should strive for authenticity. So does a person who writes an autobiography kill themselves as an author?
Max, every time I see you I think of that scene we did from the Bald Soprano. Ha. That was fun. Hmmm...What about autobiographies? I find that interesting because the author is certainly not dead in that instance. Its okay Max, once you kill the author you have much more power!
So are you saying that in this blog you found, the author is using the blog simply as a way of releasing her feelings and leaning away from "negative" feelings? And in that case there really is no need for the identification of the author?
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