luka
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It's not the same material then? Or do you just view it as diluted when removed from the context of the blog?
the latter.
It's not the same material then? Or do you just view it as diluted when removed from the context of the blog?
Part of the reason Mark is interesting is that he's one of the first internet writers whose best work is underwritten, rushed, part of a wider conversation
Does that still apply? It seems as though it's a "you had to be there" thing.
We're not messing about now, people.
Those 'lull' posts of a while back were profoundly misleading. The network isn't dying, far from it. Look around you, it's obvious now that 'cyberculture' doesn't just have to mean Wired-reading corporate silverbacks or dysfunctional geeks. Only rearview mirrorism prevents us from seeing that blogs are part of a new cultural configuration that is unique as it is unprecedented. If blogs were initially parasitic on other forms and other media (isn't anything when it first emerges?), they've now established a space of their own. For, ultimately, blogs are nothing but space. Space is plentiful out here: you get the opportunity to stretch your legs, develop a style, a conceptual repertoire, luxuries that are increasingly rare in the overcrowded print world.
These reflections have been prompted by the return of the maitre, but if he's the clearest case of a cultural production that has no equal outside k-space, he's by no means the only example of the phenomenon.
But I defy you to find any contemporary writing as accomplished as this anywhere. Perhaps it was the enforced period of deprivation sharpening my palate, but it seems to me that Luke has returned more powerful than ever, his proetry sharper, more honed, with even less redundancy. Nothing wasted.
I wasn't 'there', so how would I?
You're a massive boosterist! Boostering all over the place
Our main gripe is that our period is excised from the record. And they were all the non-skull bits, the bit the Japan essay came from.
I can say with sheer confidence that your blog has no importance. Who wants to read your snivelling contemplations? If wanted to read a pile of horse shit I'd buy 'Naked Lunch' and not your blog. Now that's saying something.
Posted by: Tomato at July 13, 2004 09:26 PM
Who was "Tomato"?