The common thread in my last two posts is the quality of "forbidden writing" that seems the essence of the blogosphere now. Is this possible??? Students writing because they want to??? Amateurs and outsiders doing a far better job than professional, accredited journalists because the truth matters more than money.
Sounds subversive (and exciting). Blogging is the art of exposing what is hidden -- hidden by the mainstream press, hidden by taboo or intolerance, or just hidden by ordinary everyday obscurity. Andy Warhol to the contrary, we can't all be famous, even for 15 seconds.
But what happens to this essential, elemental forbidden quality of blogging when we turn it to the task of teaching? Does making something into a homework assignment, however creative it may be, kill the forbidden quality of blogging? Will we end up blogging a dead force?
Not kill, simply temper-- Killing sounds a lot like Bruce Willis in Sin City going about blowing brains out of their (jewel) casing.
Blogging is voluntary creativity (however circumstancial this may be), and homework is enforced creativity. The latter works in a rather distinct realm. One cannot simply draw the formar and the latter without acknowledging the difference in composition and texture.
That's my take on it.
Posted by: yuventius | Saturday, September 24, 2005 at 01:20 AM