From Blogging, the nihilist impulse by Geert Lovink via Woods Lot…
Sold by the positivists as citizen media commentary, blogs assist users in their crossing from Truth to Nothingness. The printed and broadcasted message has lost its aura. News is consumed as a commodity with entertainment value. Instead of lamenting the ideological color of the news, as previous generations have done, we blog as a sign of the regained power of the spirit. As a micro-heroic, Nietzschean act of the pajama people, blogging grows out of a nihilism of strength, not out of the weakness of pessimism. Instead of time and again presenting blog entries as self-promotion, we should interpret them as decadent artifacts that remotely dismantle the mighty and seductive power of the broadcast media. read more
How embarrassing. I thought I was blogging because it’s a fun and useful adjunct to social life, with beaucoup camaraderie, occasional eye openers and some utility to other projects. If it’s actually Nietzschean micro-heroism, I may have to reconsider my approach.
I was actually wondering last week what Geert Lovink was up to .. the last thing of his I read was the book Dark Fiber.
I’ll look forward to following the link and delving into what he has written. I like the phrase “out of a nihilism of strength, not out of the weakness of pessimism”.
I guess I could have used Google to find out what he was up to ;-), but I just knew that the blogosphere would respond.