Category Archives: Transcriptions

Links versus Pointers

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Francois Lachance

From a journal entry dated 15/09/96 Spent about two hours yesterday with David Findlay reviewing the on-line version of […] What struck me is the importance of storyboarding a site: taking account of the possible paths through the site and … Continue reading →

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Teaching Tip

Posted on June 14, 2008 by Francois Lachance

An entry in a small notebook dated September 96. Jill Scott was teaching a course at Carleton on postmodern theory and wrapping up her thesis. Jill asked for advice for the 1st time teacher. Told her not to be afraid … Continue reading →

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Touch, Vision and Re-vision

Posted on June 13, 2008 by Francois Lachance

A not very generous assessment from 1996 (though I’m struck by that the concessive “mind you” apostrophe to the reader) … Read Richard Shiff’s piece in Public 13. Interesting take on Benjamin’s notion of aura being implicated in touch and … Continue reading →

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Deconstructing Sculpture in Music

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Here are some notes made after a presentation or lecture by David Toop. They are dated November 14, 2002. At one point David Toop touched upon the commonplace figure of the move in Western musical discourse about composition from auditory … Continue reading →

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Statements

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Francois Lachance

On a piece of fading hotel notepaper, two statements recorded some ages ago in Chicago at a convention of the MLA, statements that deserve unpacking Rhetoric is a question of bringing valence to bear on the tautological. Dialectic is a … Continue reading →

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Iridescent Scales

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Francois Lachance

A scrap from 1991 P. rent the necklace. The beads and pearls scattered. They picked pieces to be hidden in medicine pouches. Y. picked up the thread. Tied it into a fly. went fishing. A scrap that wants nothing leaves … Continue reading →

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Contentment, breathing and perception

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Francois Lachance

From an undated hand written page of blue ink on blue paper with on the recto an annotation, perhaps later, in black ink “The days of calm bring / something. that I can / group and hold / and release. … Continue reading →

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Hope

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Francois Lachance

It has travelled on a torn piece of yellow sticky whose glue is no longer effective. It was found tucked under a paper clip in a gathering of similar short sequences that might be suitable to incorporate into some longer … Continue reading →

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Relocated Poem

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Francois Lachance

It has been found written on a small piece of notepaper filling the page. There is seems anchored to the space of the paper; here it floats away boy back down feather-dust down an articulate cascade cat-archly column It’s dated … Continue reading →

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In the shadow of should

Posted on September 6, 2007 by Francois Lachance

One of those notes followed by a list of nouns set in a table format. the deontic considerations of permission and pleasure resonate with the application of mnemonic technologies . . . and now the “table” tech [arrow pointing right … Continue reading →

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