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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Nov 2019
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      Even given my relatively cavalier approach to adopting and discarding identities (regardless of success/failure) it’s amazing how little the “writer” identity has penetrated despite it being 90% of public API for a decade. I feel zero connection with strongly writerly people.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Nov 2019
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      Briefly considered re-centering personal coordinate system origin at “researcher” (hence the crowd-plindependent-researcher thread last week) but nah, in no mood for a do-over of identity circa 1998-2006.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1195937380210921472 …

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      Thinking about my thread this morning on why independent research is hard, and what it would take to make it possible, and whether it’s within the reach of private investors who ALL complain endlessly about how they have far too much capital and don’t know where to put it. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1195789557465153536 …
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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Nov 2019
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      Candidate identities currently undergoing beta testing for new core identity: 1. Game designer 2. Indie Consulting Elder 3. Podcaster 4. Think-tanker 5. Psychohistorian 6. Journeyman curmudgeon 7. Neoastrologer 8. Hypermedia experimentalist 9. Fiction writer 10. Rasputining

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Nov 2019
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      One reason I never worked at the Real Writer shtick, besides being incapable of performing strong identities, is that I’ve always sensed that we are at the end of the Writer Era in a sense, like it’s the end of the Oil Age. It’s now an antiquarian speciality.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Nov 2019
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      Writing is just not a powerful enough medium to be *the* foundation of communication and cognition anymore. We’re evolving into a postverbal species. Writing today feels like programming in assembly did back in undergrad electronics class: a skill on its way out.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Nov 2019
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      Maybe I can be a critical theorist or a Critical Theorist or a critical Theorist or a Critical theorist 🤣

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Nov 2019
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      One reason I think writing is done is that it takes a shit ton of literacy even to parse *bad* writing. Knowingly or unknowingly, both good and bad writing situate themselves in continuous, connected, mass-literacy traditions that are at this point about 6-7 generations old.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Nov 2019
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      If pre-offset-printing (~< 1890) non-mass textual traditions were like rivers, post-offset ones are like ocean currents. The work you need to do to situate in context keeps creeping up, and the relative value of your marginal addition keeps going down.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Nov 2019
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      This is not death of the author in Barthes sense, as the critical decision to ignore authorial context and intentions. This is the drowning of the author, in too much context to meaningfully situate work in. Failure by pale-blue-dotting.

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Nov 2019
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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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 25
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      Walter Benjamin: “All great works of literature found a genre or dissolve one.”

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