“Criticism is as natural as breathing.” (T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1922)
I'm Jill Walker Rettberg, author and professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. I co-direct the Center for Digital Narrative, a 10-year Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence, and I lead the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life. This site started as my blog in October 2000.
Jose Angel
I’ll be pedantic just this once (well, not just…) – “Tradition and the Individual Talent” was first published in 1919. Another thing Eliot said: “every interpretation, along perhaps with some utterly contradictory interpretation, has to be taken up and reinterpreted by any thinking mind and by every civilization”. Which also applies to a post, which will be subjected to interpretation, criticism and alternative views… blogging is a great tool for criticism, but it takes a measure of self-criticism too, I mean being able to receive so many and diverse commentaries and make the best out of them.