Readers who've followed this blog since the beginning four months ago will know that - after years as a professional arts writer and academic - I have recently started to blog and am enjoying the freedom of experimenting with what feels to me like a new philosophical condition of digital existentialism, blogging and nothingness, I call it, that I keep returning to here in my posts.
I'd be interested to know if anyone has thoughts to share on their experiences of writing in digital media, how does it shape your sense of identity, how is it different to non digital writing - or not...do you have a different sense of yourself in online writing...is it more, or less, sociable... is there life beyond the screen and how much does that matter? Does it keep you sane? is it a lifeline or a form of disconnection and dissociation that keeps you attached to the eye of the screen and away from real life?
I’m not quite sure about that one as I spend so much of my time online.
This blog is like my writing has always been: my way of filling an empty space the realisation of one's own existence in a cold world. Sartre called it "nausea" in his novel by the same name. I call it 'the writer's fugue' and explored the condition in my PhD: 'The writer's fugue: musicalization, trauma and subjectivity in the literature of modernity'. I may write about that here in later posts... meanwhile I am applying my idea of the 'writer's fugue' to writing in digital media, and it seems to me we're all doing it.. in the process creating a new global polyphony... Maybe if we can create enough positive energy and creativity and love for humanity through digital media writing, reflected in writing that shows the truth of what is happening in the world and what it means to be human in this new digital age of human/machine, this will counterbalance the wars and destruction and exploitation of this world and repression of our humanity... before it is too late....and we run out of time in the virtual reality of cyberspace...
I'd be interested to know if anyone has thoughts to share on their experiences of writing in digital media, how does it shape your sense of identity, how is it different to non digital writing - or not...do you have a different sense of yourself in online writing...is it more, or less, sociable... is there life beyond the screen and how much does that matter? Does it keep you sane? is it a lifeline or a form of disconnection and dissociation that keeps you attached to the eye of the screen and away from real life?
I’m not quite sure about that one as I spend so much of my time online.
This blog is like my writing has always been: my way of filling an empty space the realisation of one's own existence in a cold world. Sartre called it "nausea" in his novel by the same name. I call it 'the writer's fugue' and explored the condition in my PhD: 'The writer's fugue: musicalization, trauma and subjectivity in the literature of modernity'. I may write about that here in later posts... meanwhile I am applying my idea of the 'writer's fugue' to writing in digital media, and it seems to me we're all doing it.. in the process creating a new global polyphony... Maybe if we can create enough positive energy and creativity and love for humanity through digital media writing, reflected in writing that shows the truth of what is happening in the world and what it means to be human in this new digital age of human/machine, this will counterbalance the wars and destruction and exploitation of this world and repression of our humanity... before it is too late....and we run out of time in the virtual reality of cyberspace...
