Category Archives: Reading

Erotic Reconnections

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Sniff and Sip — Sip and Sniff Taste is made for pairings — grounds you even more in the now more than smell : it’s on the tip of your tongue Taste is a sense that loves to be paired … Continue reading →

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Magical Bookcases

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Francois Lachance

There is this cartoon by Mike Baldwin, the creator of Cornered, which shows what looks like a boss showing off a new bookcase and remarking: “I wanted a bookcase with a secret door that led somewhere magical, mystical and mysterious. … Continue reading →

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Cross-Pollination

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Francois Lachance

The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (PM Press, 2011) Cory Doctorow interviewed by Terry Bisson On staying on top of information flows… With a little help from my friends. As a culture, we have gone from a deterministic method of consumption … Continue reading →

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Reading and Wave Leaping

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Francois Lachance

This sums up what reading the book is like: He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping … Continue reading →

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Priming the Pump

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Francois Lachance

On the literary mindset. I wonder if there may not be a “placebo” effect. Koopman and Hakemulder note the possibility of prompting: A simple solution for many of the methodological problems involved here, is using an instruction variable, leading one … Continue reading →

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Listen Illusion

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Stephen Heath “Ambiviolences: Notes for reading Jocye” in Post-Structuralist Jocye: Essays from the French edited by Derek Attridge and Daniel Ferrer This ‘soundscript’ is not the reproduction of speech, but the ceaseless confrontation of writing and speech in which reference … Continue reading →

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actualization of the potential form

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Francois Lachance

life writing writing life … Daphne Marlatt “writing in order to be” In Sp/elles: Poetry by Canadian Women edited by Judith Fitzgerald perhaps the motivation behind the push to new forms is the need to find a way of writing … Continue reading →

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Home Page — Paging Home

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Francois Lachance

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine offers glimpses into one’s past like this home page from 2001 What you may ask is a home page? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_page A personal home page historically has served as a means of self-portrayal, job-related presentation, and … Continue reading →

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The Phenomenology of the Hand-held

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Francois Lachance

From a town in eastern Canada (Kentville, Nova Scotia) comes this “simplistic example” notable for its meditation on technology, commerce and craft… Andrew Steves Smoke Proofs: Essays on Literary Publishing, Printing & Typography “The Ecology of Publishing: an interview” I … Continue reading →

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Maps of Misreading

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Encountering Dense Discourse and Utopian Leanings Tamsin Spargo on Gender Trouble The misreading of performativity as choosing gender, like selecting from a wardrobe, may stem from a utopian desire to evade the compulsions of the binary gender system and heterosexuality … Continue reading →

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