Sparrow on Silliman

John Sparrow on Ron Silliman's Talk at Birkbeck in London:

On reflection, he acknowledged that poets, by and large, would like to put work out, and that if they actively resisted the blogging medium or a web presence in general they were committing professional suicide. This is not mutually exclusive to the sense of community which can potentially be built through the collaborative writings of online discussion, nor must it exclude or wipe out physical community. What blogging does enable is a more instantly and further reaching rigorous testing of community standards.

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