No doubt Doug will clarify matters.
Love your prose rhythms.
Joanna
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On Jan 31, 2012, at 10:06 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> Like the cryptic remark suggests; it's not causal, it's existential.
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> Blogging is like the death drive because you're compelled to blog as you are compelled to die.
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> Freud opined that human action can be understood as being controlled by two drives: eros and thanatos. Roughly translated as Love and Death.
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Sorry, but I still don’t get it. I am compelled to work, to take a piss at an inopportune moment :-), write code, load and unload dishes, so on. Publish or perish. Put up or shut up. Shit or get off the can. And all paths lead to the grave. What makes blogging different?
Perhaps, though, I should clarify what I mean by the zeroth law. A strange fact noticed by bloggers over the years is that blogs with more frequent posts attract more readers. My guess for the cause of this strange phenomena is twofold: one, a large number of readers do not use a feed reader and are therefore consigned to frequently checking the blog web site for new content, and are bound to get disappointed and abandon the site if most of these checks are fruitless. Two, the Google effect. The more you post, the more the chance of your getting linked to, page-ranked up, and getting visited. Of course not all bloggers might care for visitors, in which case no laws apply!
—ravi
> Joanna
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> On Feb 1, 2012, at 11:51 AM, // ravi wrote:
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>>> Which is its link to the death drive, as Jodi Dean has demonstrated. It's insatiable, and you never win.
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>> Lost you there. “Death drive”? i.e., if you blog frequently, your blog will die? Or blogging itself is dying because everyone is blogging extensively?
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> thanatos.
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> JC
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