Discussions of the twitter essay form (@jessifer @HeerJeet) benefit from consideration whether it is more a public lecture variation. [1]
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 16, 2014Not to deny provocative twitter essay precursors, especially among essayists/aphorists, Nietzsche, Wilde, Benjamin, Parker, [2]
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 16, 2014But key characteristics of the form, (a) articulation of its "public" by assembled audience, (b) dynamic reception via annotation, [3]
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 16, 2014(c) productive/disruptive interruptions, (d) ambivalent temporality of performed/published argument evoke scene of the lecture for me. [4]
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 16, 2014I am even uncharacteristically tempted to offer up the thesis as the redemptive proposal that: [5]
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 16, 2014twitter as techno-imaginary invigorates the public lecture, might compensate its prior enervation by PowerPoint as techno-imaginary. [6]
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 16, 2014This last returns us to the aphorism, I guess, even as this intervention may function most legibly as an essay after all. [7]
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 16, 2014My suspicions arise from my own twitter essay experimentation, [8] esp: http://t.co/jrscwJpjEe
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 16, 2014…in which a gnomically opaque twittercase arrives at clarity only in comments functioning more or less as a conventional blogpost/essay. [9]
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) April 16, 2014
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