In the last year I think I stopped thinking of myself as a writer (always a very uncomfortable fit for me... it’s always been mostly an instrumental behavior for thinking and self-entertainment for me). I think I sometimes write well, but am not primarily a Writer.
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It’s too much work to make a work work. Except as a mechanical reproduction of genre norms. And increasingly everything belongs in a genre or micro genre. Genrefication of all work. Textual commoditization. Endgame of words.
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Walter Benjamin: “All great works of literature found a genre or dissolve one.”
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this came up in this that i just finished reading:https://www.amazon.com/Orality-Literacy-30th-Anniversary-Accents/dp/0415538386 …
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Love that book. Here’s my summaryhttps://www.perell.com/blog/orality-and-literacy …
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