tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847877.post8735611370217930255..comments2024-02-08T04:15:53.399-06:00Comments on Why Not Blog?: To be of useDonnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08200732104876804746noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847877.post-36678446691729587212008-02-23T10:14:00.000-06:002008-02-23T10:14:00.000-06:00Cool!I pick this up over at my new blog.RobertCool!<BR/>I pick this up over at my new blog.<BR/>RobertAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847877.post-55722061075075556702008-02-19T12:55:00.000-06:002008-02-19T12:55:00.000-06:00Hi Scot--My apologies for not responding sooner. I...Hi Scot--My apologies for not responding sooner. In part, though, I have nothing to add except: great question! And it does seem to me that the answer MUST be linked to affect, as the model of frienship would. I wonder, though, if even interruption is a kind of link? The disruption still creates an association, doesn't it, in the sense that the statement "Don't think of an elephant" (a la Lakoff) makes us think of an elephant?Donnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08200732104876804746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847877.post-78632828225363589482008-02-15T08:12:00.000-06:002008-02-15T08:12:00.000-06:00Your class sounds more and more interesting every ...Your class sounds more and more interesting every time you blog about it (I would love to see the syllabus, btw). The discussion of aggregation, though, gets me thinking about my CCCCs paper, assuming I ever get time to write it. One of the questions I plan to ask concerns networks and connection models such as the one Watts and others put forward: what happens when networks experience interference (or what we take to be interference), when the call put forth for interaction and aggregation falls short of linking individual units into the system as a whole? Put somewhat differently, is there a productive place for disjunction or dis/connection within network models and if so what might this look like? I don't have the best answer yet for this, but the abstract I wrote suggests that friendship (or at least Blanchot and Derrida's version of friendship) might suggest a possibility for imagining networks less as near-limitless possibilities for connection and more as "communities without community," to borrow Blanchot's phrase. Such a network, if it's right to call it that now, would highlight interruptive contacts over associative linkages, contacts extended, though not necessarily with commensurability, to an other who may or may not ever answer the call for aggregation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com