Journal Entry 4

Place and scene have everything to do with everyday writing. There is always a specific reason as to why you would write a particular saying in a particular place. For example, like they said in the reading, some person put "ZEPPELIN ROCKS" on the site of a "venting wall" for the 9/11 tragedy. This person probably was looking to either disgrace the wall where many people were venting their true feelings about the incident, or he could've been looking to make humor out of the situation at hand. Like the context says, writing is populated by bodies. This means that writing is always expressing some sort of feeling or emotion whether it be anger, happiness, sadness, or humor. Writing also reacts with something. When something happens one responds by writing whatever they feel is necessary. As it relates with graffiti, usually gangs use graffiti to mark their territory, tell a story, or style their name in a certain way. One author argues that graffiti is a type of conversations going on between gangs or people. I agree with that because once one gang graffiti's something, another will react by graffitiing something else. That is like a typical conversation. When one person says something, one reacts and says something in return. However, before you can react to something, it just hits you. Like they said in the article, before you can analyze the graffiti, the graffiti just hits you. You have no idea what its saying at first or the context of which it was said under. After further observing something, you realize the true nature of why it is being said or written.

When it comes to the circulation of ideas, place and scene are major factors of what kind of ideas are being circulated. For instance, if you are at a fabulous dinner party with world-renowned scientists and philosophers, the kinds of ideas that would be floating around would be highly intelligent ones. On the other hand, if you are staring at graffiti on the side of a highway, the ideas that might be circulated about that piece of writing would be much more creative and open to interpretation.