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actualization of the potential form
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
Thrown in the Way of the Mind
In conversation with Bonnie Devine about Indigenous objects in museum collections and the opening up of those collections to contemporary art practice, she made the point: every object has a story and a job to do I recorded that reflection … Continue reading
Home Page — Paging Home
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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Animating the Birth of a Mountain
There is a trove of treasures on the National Film Board site including a short film by Alison Reiko Loader. https://www.nfb.ca/film/showa_shinzan/ Showa Shinzan The description: This animated film tells the story of a young Japanese girl’s relationship with her grandfather, … Continue reading
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the impossibility of an ending never begun
We shall never again inhabit that fantasy of ourselves that never was, for now we know it to have been a fantasy. Dana Seitler “Write, Paint, Dance, Sex Queer Styles/American Fictions” in After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory and Sexuality in … Continue reading
Three Nodes
On Actor-Network Theory [I]t can more technically be described as a “material-semiotic” method. This means that it maps relations that are simultaneously material (between things) and semiotic (between concepts). It assumes that many relations are both material and semiotic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93network_theory … Continue reading
Subjectivation and Narrativisation
We begin with the characterization of a person. Lynne Huffer. Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory p. 117 For Foucault, as for Deleuze, subjectivation includes more than social or linguistic construction. Indeed, it includes more than the … Continue reading
Good Questions Good Stories
Act I – The Question A young gentleman asked: Does anyone not have a cellphone? His parent answered: Yes, as a matter of fact. Who? My friend and co-worker François. Why? That’s a good question. Act II – The Answer … Continue reading
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Who Needs Pictures?
A touching anecdote, vivid for anyone who has lain a head on a loved one’s breast: My earliest reading memory When no one knew I was deaf, my dad used to read Goodnight Moon and Happy Birthday Moon by Margaret … Continue reading
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At the Tail End, a Tale, not Tall
CBC Ideas Vestigial Tale https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/vestigial-tale-part-1-1.3087964 An episode devoted to story telling. At 49:00 minutes in of an hour show we are sent off with a story recounted by Aideen McBride. I do it not justice except to say it involves … Continue reading
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