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Guest Post
I have enjoyed reading the very thoughtful comments on my previous post. This kind of exchange makes me want to set up my own weblog as well.
I’d like to allow myself one more opportunity to write in this space before a very busy week ahead of me. Perhaps, I have focused too strongly on the question of anonymity. As many of you note, this is a problematic issue for many reasons. But I am also very moved by our need for security, as Clancy writes, in a time period where we are constantly feeling anxious about our securities. As a former colleague of mine once noted to me in private conversation, academia may be the most insecure of the professions.
Perhaps, the 21st century will be marked by national security concerns as well as personal security concerns, as well as, of course, Internet security. Indeed, this is a project I am just beginning to conceptualize, an overview of securities and professional lives, the way we project insecurities into public and private spaces. So I very much appreciate all the wonderful comments I've received so far.
I hope to be able to post again here soon. Or, when my own blog is set up, I will make that site available to you all so that we can continue these types of conversations.
The Tenured Radical
Replies: 3 comments
Dear Comp Mafia
No, I do not blog yet. But I do comment from time to time (though not as Tenured Radical). Sorry if what I wrote was confusing. I really admire and appreciate your posts here. They help clarify a great deal of what I've wanted to say as well, but seem to struggle to get out. I suppose that - even as a "guest" blogger" - blogging, anonymous or not - is a different kind of struggle for words.
T.R.
Posted by The Tenured Radical @ 01/15/2006 02:52 PM EST
Well, this statement at least suggested that Tenured Radical already had an anonymous blog, "But I wanted to state some support for the issue, and to even show that someone like me, with really little to lose, prefers to blog anonymously."
Yet I see how "prefers to blog" could actually mean "prefers to respond to blogs anonymously." Is that the source of my confusion here?
Posted by c-m @ 01/15/2006 02:42 PM EST
I still don't get it. I thought that Tenured Radical already had an anonymous weblog, per the post below -- so why the comment about setting up your own weblog?
You don't need to know who the author is in order to detect inconsistencies in authorship.
Posted by c-m @ 01/15/2006 02:39 PM EST