It’s raining like crazy here. I can’t believe it.

Tonight’s weblogger’s meetup saw a decent turnout, with about eight people. We’re having a blog night at Curtin Uni next week which I’m looking forward to, and Anthony gave me a meatpack which will provide some much-needed fuel for weekend.

I have in mind to write a paper on blogging and philosophy because, as you know, jounal-writing as a moral practice is a big issue in Michel Foucault’s later work. It would go a bit like:

a) Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and the ‘Care of the Self’ in Antiquity - how keeping a journal is a way of practicing morality.
b) Blogging as a return to the diary, and how this translates into a modern form of self-reflection.
c) Why blogging in particular? How communities of choice bring together people of similar ethos. Exhibitionism and opening ourselves to the world, gaining the courage for honesty.
d) Ethical issues with discosure and anonymity in weblogging; eg. the problem with people who know you reading your weblog.

I might also pay attention to weblogging (as a genre of quotidian non-fiction) as marginal literature and the way it implicitly questions western literary and artistic practice, but this is not really my strong suit. Anyone know much about comparative literature?

Well, I’m off to make a fanpage for Arundhati Roy
…seeya :)