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One thing I want to mention to incoming students: Even though this class will look at blogs as literature, as culture, as anthropology, I expect that we will devote a little more time than we did last year to the political nature of blogs and, specifically, to the role of blogs in the Lieberman-Lamont race. There will be at least one full installment of the class on that, and perhaps part of another. It's just such a great opportunity to watch this unfold before our eyes and to speak to some of the bloggers involved in this.

This may be a turn-off if you hate politics. On the other, my experience of this camopaign has been that the personal, the cultural, the rhetorical, and the political have all mixed together in the blogosphere. Part of the fascination is the way the political establsihment was not ready for the quintessence of blogs. And keep in mind that, for example, one of the key players in this drama is the producer of "Natural Born Killers." This is not strictly a political story.