I encountered David Mery on Wednesday, lurking suspiciously outside Southwark tube station. He was about to be interviewed by the BBC for a programme to be shown tomorrow at noon. See
this on
his website for details.
He remarked to me later that my Livejournal isn't updated very frequently. That's because what goes on in my life is either too
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A former tutor of mine used to teach on "speech acts": every time we speak to someone we are anticipating and hoping to evoke a response within a particular range. The act of speaking is not mere communication, but an action upon the listener.
I recently tried to post a review of the year (2007). It was difficult. Who was my readership? What was I hoping to achieve from the act of communication? Should I censor all stuff about my children bc of internet predators? And my moans about work in case I want my colleagues to have access to my blog? And my romantic life, in case I end up saying something wrong there..? So after all the censorship I have something that is hardly worth the pixels it is written with.
I have one LJ friend who posts exclusively on her love life. I have another who posts only on his work. Another seems only to have a Dr Who life. Each of those has chosen their target audience and applied their self-image filters wrt what they will say about themselves, and they have very comfortable extended conversations with geographically diverse people as a result.
It's also a good place to put homemade poetry of dubious quality.
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So the truth is that my paucity of postings reflects that I have
become increasingly reclusive and also unproductive in the
areas I could allow myself to publish.
If that trend changes (I'm hoping it will, but it is a struggle)
you might see me posting garden pictures and perhaps
a renewed foray into the relationship between energy, economics and human
happiness.
The former could be of interest to one or two people who
know me and like gardening themselves. In this case, publishing here is specifically
less demanding of a response than direct mailing to people would be.
The latter would be an exercise in
scientific thinking and research and I'd be looking for critical responses.
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