Little Billboards

Over the years, I have changed the signature block on email messages. They often contain a witty saying and a url.

Here is one from the close of the last century, anticipating an active century to come

Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance
20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation

Earlier I struck a Kantian note:

Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance

Wondering if…

mnemonic is to analytic
as
mimetic is to synthetic

And here’s a twist on the hocus-pocus of the art of persuasion:

Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin

Skill may be the capacity to manipulate perceptions of knowledge.
Magic is.

And with the usual continuity of the moniker “Scholar-at-large” with a tag from a brief intellectual itinerary.

Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm
per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality

Currently:

Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance

to think is often to sort, to store and to shuffle: humble, embodied tasks

Who knows what permutations are to come?

And so for day 1215
11.04.2010