Comments on: (Geo)Politic{s} and its Love Affair with [Brackets] http://www.affectjournal.co.uk/blog/?p=32 A journal for alternative political and geographical analysis Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:24:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: ManicJ http://www.affectjournal.co.uk/blog/?p=32#comment-4 ManicJ Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:13:11 +0000 http://www.affectjournal.co.uk/blog/?p=32#comment-4 It seems incongruous that in a journal blog pertaining to 'affect' and more-than-representational approaches that we are trying to assign (almost comical) meanings to colons. For me, colons, brackets, dots, whatever... these are not apologies for the act of writing - they are fully implicated in the act of writing. What I don't understand here is why we are divorcing letters from symbols. If writing is far more than utilitarian, then please, let colons speak for themselves. It seems incongruous that in a journal blog pertaining to ‘affect’ and more-than-representational approaches that we are trying to assign (almost comical) meanings to colons. For me, colons, brackets, dots, whatever… these are not apologies for the act of writing - they are fully implicated in the act of writing. What I don’t understand here is why we are divorcing letters from symbols.

If writing is far more than utilitarian, then please, let colons speak for themselves.

]]> By: sam http://www.affectjournal.co.uk/blog/?p=32#comment-3 sam Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:53:36 +0000 http://www.affectjournal.co.uk/blog/?p=32#comment-3 They may have utility, but writing is far more than utilitarian. The constant use of brackets appears like a continuous apology for the act of writing. Social science too often treats words as the awkward relation, and authors strive to overcome their apparent limitations and bounds, rather than engage with the medium in which they have invested their careers. And what about the colon? Even the name indicates some gutteral strain: a pause within the sentence to excuse some colonic passing. They may have utility, but writing is far more than utilitarian. The constant use of brackets appears like a continuous apology for the act of writing. Social science too often treats words as the awkward relation, and authors strive to overcome their apparent limitations and bounds, rather than engage with the medium in which they have invested their careers. And what about the colon? Even the name indicates some gutteral strain: a pause within the sentence to excuse some colonic passing.

]]> By: ManicJ http://www.affectjournal.co.uk/blog/?p=32#comment-2 ManicJ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:28:22 +0000 http://www.affectjournal.co.uk/blog/?p=32#comment-2 Your own (possibly ironic) use of the textual devices you write about demonstrates the sheer utility of such // * () etc. I advocate the use of such techniques, but only when it 'adds' something to the narrative. Whether this works or not is down to the judgement of the reader. Otherwise I'd have to agree, you really are reading too much into it. // Your own (possibly ironic) use of the textual devices you write about demonstrates the sheer utility of such // * () etc.

I advocate the use of such techniques, but only when it ‘adds’ something to the narrative. Whether this works or not is down to the judgement of the reader.

Otherwise I’d have to agree, you really are reading too much into it.

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