tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post8913420227345259402..comments2023-08-10T05:01:45.872-07:00Comments on Blog of Myself: Blog und Zeita.k.a. "Joe"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09297686120651846304noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post-54047329442255953252010-01-05T06:59:01.926-08:002010-01-05T06:59:01.926-08:00You bring up several interesting points. I said in...You bring up several interesting points. I said in a previous post, though maybe not so clearly, that time is flexible in the blog form. Wordpress allows me to backdate any post, change the time it was there. If I decide in January that I meant to write about digging potatoes in June, I can slip in a new June post or write it -- perhaps a more reflexive mode -- at the time I'm thinking about it. Is this deceptive to the reader? Perhaps. Does it make for a better read when the blog is taken as a whole, looked at through the forward progression of time? Maybe.<br /><br />Also, the blog is a good medium for me to test that never-ending idea. I don't return to subjects as often as I intended to when I started this project (self-referring within the blog to previous topics, or at least continuing them). Essays were finite: I declared them finished at some point. But the blog does not have to end. Even if book published, it doesn't necessarily end.Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05560779775066234365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post-29737175698313468272009-12-25T18:27:00.985-08:002009-12-25T18:27:00.985-08:00Joe--I think I've detected an anxiety over art...Joe--I think I've detected an anxiety over art and activism, or is it only between blog and art, or or or? Maybe I'm seeing it because it's so much a part of my own rabbit/vase wavering. In any case, happy xmas, and look forward to meeting you as yourself in Denver.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16934944559857117395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post-76018498068826570432009-12-25T08:35:41.361-08:002009-12-25T08:35:41.361-08:00Thanks, Mark - yeah, I thought that was wrong abou...Thanks, Mark - yeah, I thought that was wrong about Sago, as soon as I'd written it. <br /><br />Susan - Am I really insisting on those boundaries? I do think *institutions* create/are boundaries (both discursive and bricks-and-mortar), but I'm not sure that's the same thing. I'll have to re-read my own post . . .a.k.a. "Joe"https://www.blogger.com/profile/09297686120651846304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post-70573506989177047982009-12-23T09:54:14.348-08:002009-12-23T09:54:14.348-08:00Why, oh Joe H, do you keep insisting on the bounda...Why, oh Joe H, do you keep insisting on the boundaries between "art" and "public" or "activism" or whatevaz? Isn't the blog a place where the boundary blurs beyond recognition, and makes a point of it (if we're lucky)?susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16934944559857117395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post-21765997589005179622009-12-23T08:00:22.810-08:002009-12-23T08:00:22.810-08:00Thanks, Joe, for the comments on the book, blog--a...Thanks, Joe, for the comments on the book, blog--and especially the take on the blog blurring the line instead of becoming yet another "object" of art. And the idea of opening "towards activism against non-art institutions." I can see from the referrers and google searches that bring people to the Coal Mountain blog that people are visiting the site more from mining communities than from art-world & poetry-world spaces. This is also evident in where the book is getting reviewed, i.e., moreso in places like In These Time and Huffington Post than poetry journals... so far.<br /><br />Also, one tiny correction: Sago, where 12 miners died, was far from the worst in US history: that belongs, as far as I know, to Monongah, West Virginia, Dec 6, 1907, when upwards of 500 miners, including very young child laborers, lost their lives. There's a recent book from West Virginia University Press that analyzes it in detail:http://wvupressonline.com/McAteer_Monongah_978-1-933202-29-7<br /><br /><br />Anyway, thanks again for opening this space for discussing blogs used in these alternate ways.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com