Category Archives: Reading

Divining the Dynamics

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Italo Calvino“Cybernetics and Ghosts” [1967 lecture]The Uses of Literaturetrans. Patrick Creagh And so the author vanishes – that spoiled child of ignorance – to give place to a more thoughtful person, a person who will know that the author is … Continue reading →

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Interpretation & Rhetoric

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Reading approaches composition… An Aristotelian rhetoric is a rhetoric of interpretation. Such a rhetoric brings composing close to the activity of reading. Ellen QuandahlAristotle’s Rhetoric: Reinterpreting InventionRhetorical Review Vol. 4 No. 2 (Jan 1986) And so for day 314825.07.2015

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Inattention as Writing Tool

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Risking stupidity … The essays in this volume work through examples. The writing tries not only to accept the risk of sprouting deviant, but also to invite it. Take joy in your digressions. Because that is where the unexpected arises. … Continue reading →

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Music versus Meaning

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Finnegans Wake was another intimidating work singled out by Caedmon. According to the album’s liner notes, speech acts as both “concert” and “crutch” in helping readers to appreciate Joyce’s linguistic sonority: “With a work like Finnegans Wake, it may well … Continue reading →

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In and With Fragments and a Few Nots

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Bahar OrangWhere Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty To engage ethically with Sappho’s poems is to love fragments, to love in fragments, with no totalizing category, no interest in a lost whole, no disdain for flaws. I like how a … Continue reading →

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Long Hand

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Francois Lachance

I like how the handwriting has introduced line breaks in unexpected places… p 74 [R]eaders are responsible for / their own journey through the / text from the very beginning. From Alice Bell “Ontological Boundaries and Methodological Leaps: The Importance … Continue reading →

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Why no why?

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Francois Lachance

From a novella about travel and destiny. I shut my eyes and prayed to the Seven. I wanted to ask, “Why did you let this happen?” but that was blasphemy. You never ask why. It was not a question for … Continue reading →

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To Make Clear – Pauses

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Francois Lachance

I like how the cumulation of words shifts the sense ever so slightly with each addition: to make, to make sense, to make sense clear. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense … Continue reading →

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Acting, Imagining, Symbolizing

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Francois Lachance

a snippet from Lev Manovich on pedagogical theory and interface design: Piaget > Bruner > Kay Continue reading →

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One, One, One, Many

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Mark Marino Critical Code Studies There is an invitation to […] resituate authorship not as something that necessarily emerges out of whole cloth from the genius poised at the computer but instead as an actor of reading and writing, cutting … Continue reading →

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