to me, writing is about being a prude: the...

Feb 13

quote to me, writing is about being a prude: the squeamish pleasure of writing (saying) things

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yes, this. & the pleasure part is key. otherwise it’s just… squeam.

Here are some ramblings that may or may not be related. I think that workshop is a kind of very ritualized agreement to mutually receive whatever breaks in decorum we turn in each week and call a poem. & I mean workshop there in a catholic sense, like any sort of economy of sharing/feedbacking writing.

Let’s say that in that way, Tumblr is a kind of workshop. Shit, is anyone writing about Tumblr poetics? Tumblr poetics would be, calling on Barthes, the study of “how [Tumblr] meaning is possible, at what cost and by what means.” Not itself the question. Contains the polymorphous questions. How are we involved in the project of alternative myth-making? is a more fancy way to ask, why does it matter what we here, in Tumblr-land, tell each other? Because, the Poetics of Squeamish Pleasure!

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