Category Archives: Transcriptions

Beginning a Cento

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Francois Lachance

my mustard seed husk, my origami cosmos within within I’m more darn than breach [p. 75 & p. 95 – Tolu Oloruntoba, The Junta of Happenstance] And so for day 308927.05.2015

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On readiness and redness

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Francois Lachance

An encounter with the thought of Umberto Eco through the figure of the anacoluthon. Continue reading →

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transfigurations and translations

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Francois Lachance

fragments from the frag pool: haiku after bashō gary barwin & derek beaulieu the double spread on pages 38 & 39 transcribed (sans the white space between sections) old pond draws the line frog crosses it fragment of bashogination pondiment … Continue reading →

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affirming a kind of affirmation

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Francois Lachance

John Akomfrah and Janna Levin in conversation as part of Longplayer Assembly. Towards the end of their conversation they exchange thoughts and words about jazz and improvisation and conversation and ways of being in the world that go meta and … Continue reading →

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Out of Lurking

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Roland Barthes towards the end of Criticism and Truth in the last section (“Reading”) translated by Katrine Pilcher Keuneman gives an account of four functions in the Medieval transmission of verbal artefacts: scriptor: who copies without adding anything compilator: who … Continue reading →

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Cited for UnSpeakable Speech Acts

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Juvrianto Chrissunday Jakob, English Lecturer, An English Enthusiast and Coffee Lover (https://medium.com/@markriand) < I learnt today about https://medium.com (a modest payment to view the articles housed there $5 per month as of April 20, 2020). I came across this fellow … Continue reading →

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Research Ethics Researching Ethics

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans – TCPS 2 (2018) https://ethics.gc.ca/eng/tcps2-eptc2_2018_chapter1-chapitre1.html#b Retrieved: April 11, 2020. Where I come from we care. I sign on to these core principles: The guidelines in this Policy are based on the … Continue reading →

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Stardust Thoughts in Granite

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Francois Lachance

In a 1996 summer stay on the campus of Princeton during the CETH [Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities] Summer Seminar I was delighted to come across this evocative sculpture/installation in a quiet sunny corner. I later learnt more … Continue reading →

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間 Space Architecture Space 間

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Judy Halebsky Tree Line “Space, Gap, Interval, Distance” She concludes the poem with an ekphrasis of the written character followed by a mise en page (via an extended gap between words) that reduplicates the notion of negative space explicated in … Continue reading →

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Pulse and Poetry

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Francois Lachance

I came across a list of ingredients with names in French. Black eyed peas was given as haricots oeil de perdrix which in back translation gives partridge eye beans. Thanks to Dixon Long in Markets of Provence for the compilation. … Continue reading →

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