{"id":304,"date":"2019-04-15T15:14:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/?p=304"},"modified":"2019-04-15T15:14:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:14:26","slug":"gaze-in-correspondence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/gaze-in-correspondence\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaze in Correspondence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In &#8220;Self Writing,&#8221; Foucault stresses that correspondence &#8212; although it has a similar function of providing introspection, even as the writer writes to an audience other than himself &#8212; is distinct from <em>hupomnemata<\/em> in that it simulates a face-to-face conversation. In writing a letter to someone, one is placing himself in the gaze of the recipient, exposing his &#8220;presence,&#8221; as Foucault writes, even more profoundly than if he were to send a photograph. Thus, writing to a friend, even if only to recount the details of one&#8217;s day and overall health &#8212; is more than simply a writing exercise in disciplining the mind; it also serves a social function quite similar to a physical meeting with a friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;Self Writing,&#8221; Foucault stresses that correspondence &#8212; although it has a similar function of providing introspection, even as the writer writes to an audience other than himself &#8212; is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/gaze-in-correspondence\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gaze in Correspondence<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}