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
"<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>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.  </fontfamily>

On Saturday, January 26, 2002, at 09:08 AM, GP wrote:


<excerpt>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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