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Consumerism. I bought the book. I read the book. Was I consumed? The question arises in part from the vampire-inspired figure raised by Judith Barry in her critical and art work. Architecture has become transparent, a giant screen into which … Continue reading
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Narrativity and the Open
Elsewhere I have argued that narrativity is always at hand whether it is the the possibility of weaving a narrative or embroidering narration — as a species humans are in touch with how objects yield events and events become reified; … Continue reading
Little Red Reading List
It was Roald Dahl and his Revolting Rhymes that set me on the course to consult variations. What did me in — was his mash-up of the Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood and Quentin Blake’s illustrations capture … Continue reading
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Story and Imitation
Michel Serres in Variations on the Body begins with the body in motion (mountain climbing) and from there invites us to meditate on the body’s metamorphoses which forms the basis of imitation and learning. The argument rehearsed here is crude … Continue reading
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Post Enlightenment
The tenth vignette of the Ten Bulls by Kekuan is about returning to the world after a journey beyond and it reads Inside my gate, thousand sages do not know me. The beauty of my garden is invisible. Why should … Continue reading
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Catch Up Determinism
The narrator in Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko muses on the nature of grand narrative: No matter what you or anyone else did, Marx said, history would catch up with you; it was inevitable, it was relentless. … Continue reading
Shine
Robert Haas ends “Songs to Survive the Summer” which itself ends Praise with the following set of verses: all things lustered by the steady thoughtlessness of human use. Through the polish of use the objects in our daily lives develop … Continue reading
Mock Interview About the Narrative Impulse
[Anthony?] Storr drawing on Winnicott writes: Transitional objects gradually loose their emotional charge as the child grows older. Often such objects become linked with a variety of other objects and are used in play. Children easily transmute a broomstick into … Continue reading
Material for Dreams and Forms of Transformation
Karla Jay in her study of the works of Natalie Clifford Barney and Renée Vivien (The Amazon and the Page) reflects upon the imaginative space opened up by hybrid forms. By locating her lovers in the magic world of the … Continue reading
Two or Three Takes on Madness
Douglas Coupland in the Massey Lectures (delivered as a novel in five hours) has a character who has been a receptionist in the office of a psychiatrist. The character has an interesting take on being a little crazy and on … Continue reading
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