Comments on: A Context for the Mundane http://quiverandquill.com/2008/05/a-context-for-the-mundane/ An idea resource for bloggers, media folks and curious people. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:12:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: pareidoliac http://quiverandquill.com/2008/05/a-context-for-the-mundane/#comment-330 pareidoliac Mon, 12 May 2008 03:27:58 +0000 http://quiverandquill.com/2008/05/a-context-for-the-mundane/#comment-330 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). 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).

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