Drafting a proposal for an essay about woodworking discourse.
Having done some drafting on the proposal, I'm now thinking of
writing about two different "authorial positions" for woodworking
writers, one of them best described as "authoritative" (authority
derived from technical mastery and long, successful experience) and the
other as "ethical" (an ethos of "passion" and curiosity that seduces the
reader into vicarious experience of the author's series of
discoveries). The "ethical" author also invites the reader into a
dialog; the Internet makes a truly Bakhtinian dialog, in which readers
become writers instantaneously, possible. Both authorial modes
studiously ignore the involvement of the mechanisms enabling woodworking
discourse (print, video, internet) in the same economy of production
and consumption that drives us all to feel we need to escape via
hobbies.
Only with lots of examples.
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