Comments on: Response! http://auldlangsyne24.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/response/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:41:29 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: kmiddleton http://auldlangsyne24.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/response/#comment-13 kmiddleton Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:52:43 +0000 http://auldlangsyne24.wordpress.com/?p=11#comment-13 Oooh, Eric. I hope my last comment didn't sound like a challenge that would necessitate a whole different argument. On the whole, I'm trying to get us, as a class, to get as articulate as we can about our own attachments to the book, as well as our suspicions about new technologies/media. So, what you're adding here is useful to us all, I think. You're talking about an archive of experience and memory that we access as readers, that invest books themselves with meaning and gravitas and nostalgia (don't let me put words in your mouth if these are wrong!). Arjun Appadurai has an article called "the social life of things" and in it, if I remember correctly, he describes the ways in which objects gather value unto themselves, and it sounds like you're right there with him. Oooh, Eric. I hope my last comment didn’t sound like a challenge that would necessitate a whole different argument. On the whole, I’m trying to get us, as a class, to get as articulate as we can about our own attachments to the book, as well as our suspicions about new technologies/media.

So, what you’re adding here is useful to us all, I think. You’re talking about an archive of experience and memory that we access as readers, that invest books themselves with meaning and gravitas and nostalgia (don’t let me put words in your mouth if these are wrong!). Arjun Appadurai has an article called “the social life of things” and in it, if I remember correctly, he describes the ways in which objects gather value unto themselves, and it sounds like you’re right there with him.

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