Writing in Fragments, Part 2
Blogalization translates an article on Erika P. Buzio on the Web Log as Literary Genre:
Mexico, D.F., 30 March 2004 — A new form of writing, fragmentary and immediate, but with literary aspirations, is growing in importance thanks to the blogs and electronic journals maintained by an army of young Mexican writers.
"What this really is is a collective, virtual public journal and a completely new experience of reading and, above all, of writing," says Pedro Ángel Palou, winner of the 20003 Premio Xavier Villaurrutia.
Buzio is careful to step back a little from the all too common "Weblogs will save us!" rhetoric found (not coincidentally) on many weblogs. The specific characteristics of weblogs as media do tend to encourage certain literary or textual characteristics (like casual spelling, frequent updates, etc.), but it's not a simple cause and effect issue. And similarly, many other media that people have access to are supporting these emerging fragmentary texts (instant messaging, webcams, etc.).
[See the earlier posts,
Broken or
the Datacloud manuscript, among other things. I hadn't realized how frequently "broken" functioned as a key term for me until I
searched on it on the weblog.]
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