3. Might be useful to step back & say that, as a rule, attacks on a form (say, "drama" or "film" or "blogs") are almost invariably misguided
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5. Attacking forms (as against manifestations or uses of forms) seems misguided because any form will have a multiplicity of uses.
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6. In other words, forms don't exist without content -- and criticism has to engage with the particular content as well as general forms
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7. Forms justify themselves by having expressive possibilities not otherwise available. Movies are not just filmed plays.
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8. Just so, the twitter essay isn't just a fragmented blog post. Has several unique properties.
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9. As I practice them, twitter essays unique properties are 1) real time composition & 2) real time response.
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10. I almost never know what I'm going to write in a twitter essay until I write it & often I change my thinking due to responses
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11. I have to put my eldest daughter to bed -- will return in about 20 minutes.
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12. Anyways, these twitter essays aren't meant to be Pontifical Pronouncements or (ahem) Game Theory, but provisional sketches.
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