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By: Grace Boyle

Grace Boyle — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:16:41 +0000

@Andrew Yes, it was quite the experience. I never had anything like that happen again. There is a difference, but I dove into the same topic you are here and also linked to Carlos' post.

http://smallhandsbigideas.com/generation-y/on-o…

Let me know what you think

By: Andrew Swenson

Andrew Swenson — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:07:13 +0000

Yikes Grace...I can't imagine what it would be like to have your stuff ripped off like that.

There is a difference though right—from writing something that's not really original in terms of it's content and just plain stealing.

Do you have a link to the post? I'd like to read it.

By: Grace Boyle

Grace Boyle — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:56:41 +0000

Thanks for walking through these steps, really well-written. About three months ago my blog content was 'copied' or 'stolen' (however you want to be put it) by a journalist in a newspaper in another country. I wrote about the experience and then included the thought that no content is ever original. Carlos Miceli also wrote a great post about this and I agree with what you have also said here!

This post is extremely well researched and informative!

By: Andrew Swenson

Andrew Swenson — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:47:01 +0000

Gretchen,

First, thanks for the kind words and the heady Saturday night comment. And more importantly, thanks for getting it! A conversation about communication and meaning is what moves this conversation beyond a mere squabble over the semantics of "blogging" and "writing."

Okay, now on to the section that's frying my brain:

I'm not sure I'm equipped to comment on the claim that "reality is brought into existence" through communication. I think mostly because I don't want to dig back through Lacan, Foucault and the concept of "the real." [a wiki-pedia overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real ] So maybe we can save that conversation for coffee sometime. :)

I will say, however, that I firmly believe that our human identities are forever being constituted and re-constituted through symbolic discourse. More specifically, through rhetoric (but that's my bias).

This, of course, demands the philosophical grounding that I put forth in the post above. I realize that this may make only partial sense outside of the context of the full article ( on Google books here: http://bit.ly/4q4B8d ), but in "Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation," Barbara Biesecker states,

"If the subject is shifting and unstable (constituted in and by the play of differance), then the rhetorical event may be seen as an incident that produces and reproduces the identities of subjects and constructs and reconstructs linkages between them. From the vantage of the de-centered subject, the rhetorical event can not signify the consolidation of already constituted identities whose operations and relations are determined a priori by a logic that operates quite apart from real historical circumstances. Rather it marks the articulation of provisional identities and the construction of contingent relations that obtain between them."

This would support the idea that communication produces, if not reality as such, at the very least, the identities of both the subject and the audience.

Which, for blogging, would also suggest that the common and the artistic has the power to produce and reproduce our identities as subject, text, and reader all interact in the communication of meaning.

Wow. I'm going to need some coffee or something after that.

Thanks for giving my brain a stretch tonight Gret!