{"id":1855,"date":"2009-01-08T11:08:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T16:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/08\/lauteur-et-lauto-promo-web\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T11:22:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T16:22:55","slug":"lauteur-et-lauto-promo-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/08\/lauteur-et-lauto-promo-web\/","title":{"rendered":"L’auteur et l’auto-promo Web"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ceux qui s’int\u00c3\u00a9ressent au futur de la litt\u00c3\u00a9rature ne voudront pas manquer cet article publi\u00c3\u00a9 dans le Village Voice<\/em> en d\u00c3\u00a9cembre dernier: Bloggers Vs. an Author: No one Wins.
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\nIl y est question des changements dans le monde de l’\u00c3\u00a9dition, des tourn\u00c3\u00a9es de livre qui tournent<\/em> horriblement mal et de la rencontre souvent douloureuse entre les auteurs et les blogueurs.<\/p>\n

« The state of publishing is such that you can get all these great things, but people don’t talk about the work. They talk about you, » says Strauss. « There used to be serious critics and an audience. . . . Now, the audience is also in the critic business. » The model becomes Amazon, « where any cranks complaining about books can have the same weight as The New York Times. »<\/p>\n

This should provide an example of Web democracy in action. But consider the fact that every writer I know nudges his friends and relatives to offset the mob rule by sending their own glowing reviews to Amazon and similar sites. The result is a culture where everything is a five-star book, and everything is fraudulent. It’s not so much democracy but a corruption of the public square, one that doesn’t so much improve writing as it forces each writer to become his own corporate PR department.<\/p>\n

For Strauss, the result is a sort of vast, cultural « rot, » extending across art, music, and cinema, as well as writing. « We have created sort of a post-talent age, » where what began as the heroic overthrow of cultural elites has now devolved to the craven capitulation to the mob: « It’s commercial elitism as opposed to intellectual elitism. »<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

L’article se termine tout de m\u00c3\u00aame sur une toute petite note d’espoir \u00c3\u00a0 propos de l’apport du Web en g\u00c3\u00a9n\u00c3\u00a9ral et des blogues. <\/p>\n

Yet Hitt still feels that the potential of the blogosphere to revive an older, more valid form of argument far outweighs the weird, angry graffiti.<\/p>\n

« The Internet’s returned us all to these sort of 19th-century critics who are trying to judge us by our voice, who are trying to hear the way our soul came through, » says Hitt. « Television just turned us all into courthouse gabbers. [That sort of] punditry is much more awful than anything the blogs have to offer. »<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ceux qui s’int\u00c3\u00a9ressent au futur de la litt\u00c3\u00a9rature ne voudront pas manquer cet article publi\u00c3\u00a9 dans le Village Voice en d\u00c3\u00a9cembre dernier: Bloggers Vs. an Author: No one Wins. Il y est question des changements dans le monde de l’\u00c3\u00a9dition, des tourn\u00c3\u00a9es de livre qui tournent horriblement mal et de la rencontre souvent douloureuse entre… Continue reading L’auteur et l’auto-promo Web<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}