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In the Spirit of the Virtual
S.E. Gontarski Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze Beckett’s plays then do not represent or realize a world of actuality, worlds outside themselves, do not represent at all, but offer images that make us feel in their affect the movement of … Continue reading
with an ear to polyphony
Christian Salmon Storytelling: Bewitching the Modern Mind Drawing on the work of David Boje (1991 study of storytelling performance in an office-supply firm), Salmon observes: People tell their stories in fragments and are constantly interrupted by colleagues who add elements … Continue reading
Tumbling, Threading, Theorizing
Rethreading (tumbling paragraphs) from a set of comments arising from observing undertheorizing the posited “vulnerability” of the single reader: With the demise of the grand narratives, we find writers as well as readers. Barthes at the end of Criticism and … Continue reading
Loving the Loafer
James Thurber “The Courtship of Arthur and Al” Fables for Our Time They are two beavers. One is industrious and constantly working; the other, eats, swims and plays. The one “died without ever having had a vacation in his life.” … Continue reading
Hermeneutical Symmetries
I have been following the postings of José Angel García Landa at the Humanities Commons Narrative Theory and Narratology site. One posting brought me to rethink again the status of the relation between narration and description: https://narrativetheoryandnarratology.hcommons.org/2020/09/15/narrative-theory-wayback-machine/ To the temporal … Continue reading
Cosmos — World — Field — Field — World — Cosmos
Byung-Chul Han The Scent of Time Translated by Daniel Steuer Out of nothing, narration makes world. […] The world becomes readable, like a picture. You need only let your gaze move here, move there, in order to read the sense, … Continue reading
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3N Plus
Brenda LaurelComputers as Theatre – Second Edition Side Bar page 83 At first, we thought simply to build a game […] But as we began conceptualizing the game, we realized that we were actually building a world; material in that … Continue reading
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The Yield from the Search for Foundations
Acts of Perception Turtles all the way down Elephants all the way up Cows forward and back (sides) What colour are the cows at night? Black on the side we can see at the time we can see** **the colour … Continue reading
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Arethusa & Artemisia
Anna Banti’s novel Artemisia reviewed by Susan Sontag in a game of hide and seek, of lost manuscript, lost novel, found character, found subject … ‘Non piangere.’ Don’t cry. Who is talking to whom? It is the stricken author talking … Continue reading
3 Lecture-Letters on Wabi-Sabi
for Pauline and Désirée Letter One Hello So glad you signed up for the weekly Wabi Sabi info flow. This week — surprise — there are no pictures. I was looking at the well seasoned wok in which almost nothing … Continue reading
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