Relaunch | dooce ®: “Dooce.com, however, will continue to offer up the best in expletive-laden religious and social frustration. This is who I am, just now I will leave my family out of it.” Note the words “this is who I am”. An initial reading of the statement would suggest that the words represent who [...]
Memoirs of a Recovering Mormon | dooce ®: “I have wasted the last several hours of my life reading my journals from my freshman and sophomore years at BYU. I don’t think any other activity could be quite as depressing, except perhaps actually attending BYU. The following are selected excerpts from the sophomore year journal. [...]
Baptistic Jihad | dooce ®: “It’s a little known fact that I grew up in a Mormon household in a very non-Mormon part of the country some like to call The Bible Belt, or what I like to remember as The Bible Shall Be Shoved Down Your Throat Or We Shall Whip You With a [...]
It’s fascinating to see that Ellen Simonetti appears to be going through something of an identity crisis. She’s changed the name of her blog to Diary of a Human Being. I find it interesting because it plays to much of what I’m reading in Technologies of the Self. I note that she claims to be [...]
THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU: “I have entered upon a performance which is without example, whose accomplishment will have no imitator. I mean to present my fellow-mortals with a man in all the integrity of nature; and this man shall be myself. I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made [...]
Michel Foucault (1998): “This contact between the technologies of domination of others and those of the self I call governmentality” (p. 19). In ToS Foucault was more interested in the latter.The Greeks believed it was important to take care of oneself but this was replaced by the now more common concept of know thyself. But [...]
Heather Armstrong (Dooce), August 2005 :: Rebecca Blood: Bloggers On Blogging: “About a month after I lost my job I sunk into a suffocating depression and couldn’t bring myself to write anything anymore. After that I took my site down for about six months. I think I had a bit of a pre-mid-life crisis and [...]