Responsibility in organizing online discourse

I had difficulty at first during class and at the talk connecting with Nori’s discussion. It felt very spread and vague, oscillating between his internet activities in Beppoo, his experiences in Iraq, and the “festival” style attacks he was the subjected to. It also seems like Nori hasn’t quite yet come to terms with his experience to the point of providing some of the academic commentary that we were prepared to work with. On the other hand, I think this could also be because he does not want to essentialize his experience in what has become an immensely political issue; he brings up a lot of issues in his writing, but I feel like its the nature of these particular discourses that they can all too easily become polarized. In any case, sitting in the lecture, I couldn’t figure out how to approach him.