Quote from Bhabha
I found this quote from Homi Bhabha in Elspeth Probyn’s book Outside Belongings. To me it is analogous of the migratory, nomadic weblogger, writing alone and yet desiring to be a part of a greater community;
I find it interesting that the quotation emphasizes “gathering”.
There is a species of visitor to blogspace that rifts on the poetics of “dispersing”.
There are lurkers—those that read/view without commenting. There are commentators that scatter annotations
without maitaining a log.
Different takes on the dynamic of interpellations and acknowledgements that structures the social aspect of “gatherings”.
A lurker crosses a line and becomes a commentator who becomes a log maintainer who may also lurk-comment.
Then there are those that link http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/
Lurking, linking, commenting… ancillary functions to the “gathering” ??
“Lurking, linking, commenting… ancillary functions to the “gathering” ?? “
ancillary functions, or are they just different forms of gathering?
It could be that the dispersal of products (publication of words and images) has the effect of gathering some agents to discuss the items that have been distributed and in so doing distribute more products
products agents ... a wave pattern of gathering ... a gathering would have hellos and good-byes
What is the gathering? Or even a gathering? I am trying to think back on this and I wonder what is to be gained in thinking in terms of multiple forms of gathering? Is it a move to evade the suggestion that some activities are ancilliary. I wonder if the storytelling that resists the ancillary implies a certain (under)valuation of activites that serve?
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