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Sunday, October 03, 2004

Hey hey, my my

Despite all the apparent damage done to blogdom over the past week-- in certain quarters that shall not be named-- I’d just like to remind you all that blogging can never die.  Partly that’s because there are still hundreds of words to which “blog” has not yet been attached as a prefix:  sure, there’s blogrolling, blogtopia, blogosphere, blogorama, blogemeinschaft, and now “bloggicane” (as in, “look out CBS, we will rock you like a bloggicane"), but where are the analyses of blographia, bloglossolalia, and blogastroenteritis, not to speak of the long-overdue deconstruction of the phalloblogocentrism of the Western metaphysical tradition?

But more importantly, blogging can never die unless the blogeist, through a process of dialectical self-overcoming, achieves a self-awareness that simultaneously unfolds as a consciousness of the movements of blogeschichte, which in turn reveal themselves as the condition for that very consciousness, in which we . . . uh . . . write things like this. . . .

Oh dammit, now I’ve ruined it for everybody.  Sorry about that.  Well, it was nice while it lasted.

I’ll be back tomorrow with an appropriately post-blogospheric item from the Bush campaign.

Posted by Michael on 10/03 at 06:12 AM
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