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Narration-Direction-Memory
Will Self: Are humans evolving beyond the need to tell stories? This is the part of brain concerned with way-finding, but it’s also strongly implicated in memory formation; neuroscientists are now discovering that at the cognitive level all three abilities … Continue reading
Consciousness Raising Begins in Conversation
Connection. Cognition. Communication. I do not believe that new stories will find their way into texts if they do not begin in oral exchanges among women in groups hearing and talking to one another. As long as women are isolated … Continue reading
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Telling Tools
Patricio Dávila Curator Diagrams of Power http://diagramsofpower.net/curators-essay.html Maps, diagrams and visualizations are both artifacts and processes. They are tools that tell a story, and create ways of bringing people and things together in the telling of that story. The outcomes … Continue reading
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Finding Echoes
Found at the end of an article on the Vitruvius Program in Pamphlet Architecture 16 Architecture as a Translation of Music (Princeton Architecture Press) edited by Elizabeth Martin is this intriguing reference to Rosen, Michael, editor. “Ears, Eyes, Legs and … Continue reading
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Skill and Rhetorical Finesse
Basil Johnston Ojibway Heritage Daebaudjimod – the Raconteur So skilled was [he] that he could hold an audience in his hand for an evening and even for a winter. Daebaudjimod knew hundreds of stories, but even more marvellous, he could … Continue reading
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Continuously Coming Out
It’s me. Picture taken by my friend Nella and if you look closely there’s our friend Diana in the background. It was taken after a talk given by our photographer friend Rita. Gay man. Aged 57. My sidebar comment is … Continue reading
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Woman Wins Praise
Joanna Trollope. The Book Boy. Marianne at Good Reads remarks on the style and muses as to its purpose. This novella is written in a very simplistic style: the reader might wonder if Trollope has actually written it for adults … Continue reading
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Paths to the the Pleasure Spot
There are some books you wish you had come across sooner… As the letters empty and reverse themselves, becoming their outlines, their own shadows, the reader sees and/or establishes connections between the images: “anybody looking at something,” Nichol has said, … Continue reading
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Biopolitics of the Quotidian
From the 1990s, a message about Rich, Weil and trauma writing. Menachem, I was rereading a preface by Adrienne Rich. The preface is collected in On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978. The preface is dated 1976 and is … Continue reading
To Describe Telling
I have had a longstanding interest in the relations between narration and description (and the assumption that nothing is happening while something is being described). I love this bit from John Dewey: “[…] a mountain, which to the layman [sic] … Continue reading
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