closely related, overlapping, and sometimes mistaken for blog and blog culture are diarists. Diarists have long been studied, with whole groups of scholars dedicated to 17th century diarists and 18th century(certainly others), studying forms, content, historical import, etc. in effect attempting to construct the self. Foucault uses his knowledge of diarists quite significantly, he has an article entitled "L'écrire de soi" which might be translated somewhere that deals with this. I'd also look more closely at the Tel Quel movement relatedly. There are also articles that use focault in terms of diarist culture. It looks like you are using "what is an author", which is a good text for this, but there is a great deal of literature that might be applied to this topic:) hope i helped. On Saturday, January 26, 2002, at 09:08 AM, GP wrote:
Hi all, and it takes Msr Foucault and the lurking threads to draw me out again... I've been doing some work, trying to relate Foucault to weblogs - specifically in terms of how his work on ideas of improving the self, not confessing, but the writing of the self especially in ancient greece can be reflected in part in the use and widespread phenomena of blogs. The need to atone seems to have gone, replaced by the appearence of these online identities which may or may not reflect the off-line people behind them... However there are expecations of truth that go along with weblogs, and this creates something of a power structure between author/creator and reader/commentator which adds tto the muddle I seem to be in right now.... Never the less I do think St Michel is an excellent starting point in looking at how online writings in terms of creating selves work. I hope I've added not detracted something to the conversation with my AOIR coming out. Best regards Geoff Parkes
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