October 14, 2009
The Aesthetics of the Internet
Virginia Heffernan (who I had not heard of until today) apparently wrote what I consider an interesting book proposal:
In the proposal, a copy of which was obtained by the Transom, Ms. Heffernan’s book is described as “a complete aesthetics of the Internet” that will treat the Web as a complex work of representational art, complete with “a poetics, a scale, a palette, a rhythm, a sensibility, a set of rituals and spectacles, a system of metaphors and an emotional range.”
Despite some idiotic observations in a link bait article by a certain Denton owned website (you will get no link here, sir), the idea of discussing the internet in a book form is perfectly legitimate and desirable. In fact, Snarkmarket has already laid the groundwork for it. Whether Ms. Heffernan has the ability to execute such a task, however, remains to be seen.
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She used to write a blog/column for the NY Times called The Medium. It was good.
From what I saw of the blog it looked solid but not mind-blowing, not that every needs and/or should be that. However, I tend to not get very excited about media talking about media.