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Prime Directive
William J. HigginsonThe Haiku Handbook Opener: The primary purpose of reading and writing haiku is sharing moments of our lives that have moved us, pieces of experience and perception that we offer or receive as gifts. Received. And so for … Continue reading
Acting, Imagining, Symbolizing
a snippet from Lev Manovich on pedagogical theory and interface design: Piaget > Bruner > Kay Continue reading
paratexts and patter
Ever noticed that a truncated acronym can have a marked effect on the public perception of an organization’s mandate? Take for instance CDC which expanded should net “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”. Minding ps and qs. In another matter, … Continue reading
“I’m just saying, ‘Can we be slightly less stupid, and we’ll all be better off for it.'”
Dear Lindsay, On my walk today I noticed less pigeons and leaner pigeons and the squirrels were also looking slimmer. Less people feeding them less. The animals (including people) look more healthy. Everything is finally slowing down. In my slow … Continue reading
Provenance Marking Inventions
Dr. Hilary Green @HilaryGreen77 Associate Professor, University of Alabama. Author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South (2016). via Julian Chambliss @JulianChambliss #Professor @MichiganStateu #BlackImaginary Exploring #Digital, #Comics, #Cities, & #Culture. #AssemblingtheMCU #CitiesImagined via Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz … Continue reading
As the Crow Flies – A Garden
Visitors to the Museum London (Ontario) can see Ron Benner’s water garden installation As Crows Flies (2005), which has been growing just outside the museum doors … it even features fish for mosquito control. There is a charming and informative … Continue reading
Cis-trans-cis/trans
“the tenacious pleasures of victimhood” Pankaj Mishra Consider a solution for lots of washroom and good/bad feminist debates: a Trans only, Cis only, Cis-Trans combined spaces, all fungible (mutually interchangeable) with proper signing and postage. Turn to Ontario Human Rights … Continue reading
Culinary Periodization
Introduction James Beard’s American Cookery It should be apparent that this not a book of regional cookery, it is not a collection of family recipes, it is not primarily a critique of American cuisine. It is simply a record of … Continue reading
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Convivium & Liberty
I like how the cluster of language functions (to tell stories, to reason with and to play with language itself) seem to follow an order but our text is careful to point out that the participants in the discursive situation … Continue reading
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Skipping and Slinging
Neil Gaiman Forward to Shaun Tan The Singing Bones There are stories, honed by the retelling, simplified by the people who recorded them and transmitted them, old stories, with the edges rubbed off them, like the pebbles on a beach, … Continue reading
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