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This is my first entry on digress.it (and via transfer to accountabilitybloke), and I have decided to take it a bit slower than my approach to commentpress where I dove headlong — for at least a week or so — into trying to emulate McKenzie Wark’s project with some material that had been sitting around for about a decade.
This is my first entry on digress.it (and via transfer to accountabilitybloke), and I have decided to take it a bit slower than my approach to commentpress where I dove headlong — for at least a week or so — into trying to emulate McKenzie Wark’s project with some material that had been sitting around for about a decade.3
Between my being overwhelmed with the the amount of time and effort that kind of project takes — and my growing awareness that commentpress’s limitations (as well as my own amateur status as a web master) — I put aside the project in September 2007 and never returned.
Between my being overwhelmed with the the amount of time and effort that kind of project takes — and my growing awareness that commentpress’s limitations (as well as my own amateur status as a web master) — I put aside the project in September 2007 and never returned.4
When digress.it popped up a couple of days ago, my first reaction was that this was a poor followup to commentpress, but then realized that my impression of cp was based on Wark’s work rather than the versions of cp I actually worked with. This time I am tackling more reasonable projects.
When digress.it popped up a couple of days ago, my first reaction was that this was a poor followup to commentpress, but then realized that my impression of cp was based on Wark’s work rather than the versions of cp I actually worked with. This time I am tackling more reasonable projects.5
This one (RandomReflects), base in the digress.it community server, will give me an opportunity to post my thoughts on the “academic” stuff that I run across from day-to-day. At times it will involve my thoughts on the latest few paragraphs of a book I happen to have beside my nightstand (I rarely read one book at a time and even less likely to read it in a couple — or even dozens — of “sittings”); at other times it will be reactions to articles (recent and old) that I’ve come across as I pursue my obsession with the topic of accountability. At other times it will reflect some other thoughts that just have nowhere else to go.
This one (RandomReflects), base in the digress.it community server, will give me an opportunity to post my thoughts on the “academic” stuff that I run across from day-to-day. At times it will involve my thoughts on the latest few paragraphs of a book I happen to have beside my nightstand (I rarely read one book at a time and even less likely to read it in a couple — or even dozens — of “sittings”); at other times it will be reactions to articles (recent and old) that I’ve come across as I pursue my obsession with the topic of accountability. At other times it will reflect some other thoughts that just have nowhere else to go.6
The other projects I will attempt will be posted at my server and “open for digression” when appropriate (like I said, taking it slower this time). I am going to try once again to do a public writing of some manuscripts to get reaction, and I am also contemplating using this is one or both of my graduate courses this fall (depending on enrollment and time). I will describe and link to those as they emerge…
The other projects I will attempt will be posted at my server and “open for digression” when appropriate (like I said, taking it slower this time). I am going to try once again to do a public writing of some manuscripts to get reaction, and I am also contemplating using this is one or both of my graduate courses this fall (depending on enrollment and time). I will describe and link to those as they emerge…7
Thanks to the digress.it team for launching this — and thanks in advance for any comments, reactions, “digressions” (tough to get a handle around that concept and its usefulness right now) anyone out there might contribute….
Thanks to the digress.it team for launching this — and thanks in advance for any comments, reactions, “digressions” (tough to get a handle around that concept and its usefulness right now) anyone out there might contribute….