A Context for the Mundane
9 05 2008Twitter gives a context for the mundane. Life’s small details are no more or less important than they were before Twitter, just now more people are paying attention to them. And I think that is a good thing.
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Twitter opens up windows onto the everyday associative processes of individual lives. The brief format acts as a constraint that sometimes jolts an individual into a slightly different mode of writing, in the way that the haiku or senryu form forces a particular kind of creativity with grammatical structures and syntactic conventions.
The visualization of such associative processes (and here I am drawing mainly from a Humean psychology - see David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature) provides opportunities for lots of people to retroactively discover idiosyncratic meanderings and tendencies or habits of mind and life.
“We are habits, nothing but habits” - Deleuze
And with Twitter, we are nothing but the habit of saying I am (fill in the blank).