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How, What & Where

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Donald Culross PeattieAn Almanac for Moderns“December Fifteenth” Three questions … three wishes. A philosopher with a biological turn of mind has to ask himself three questions. How does life do what it does? What is it made of and how … Continue reading →

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Loop Behaviour & Representations

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Brenda LaurelComputers as Theatre – Second Edition Representation as triggers for action (one senses the ghost of ideology critique) … [Page 212] Rob Tow says that the defining characteristic of an “entity” is that it demonstrates a “perception-representation-action” (PRA) loop … Continue reading →

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Over the Moon

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Francois Lachance

A detail from a calendar from the Dairy Farmers of Canada. I like how the image of the cow is positioned as jumping over the full moon. And so for day 315431.07.2015

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By Night or By Day

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Edgar Allan PoeEleonora Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Found on a Baci wrapper with versions in Italian, English, German and French. And so for day 315229.07.2015

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Looking by Listening to Names

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Robin Wall KimmererGathering Moss Attentiveness alone can rival the most powerful magnifying lens. The essay goes on to consider the intimacy that informs attentiveness, an intimacy mediated by nomenclature. And so for day 315128.07.2015

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Interpretation & Rhetoric

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Reading approaches composition… An Aristotelian rhetoric is a rhetoric of interpretation. Such a rhetoric brings composing close to the activity of reading. Ellen QuandahlAristotle’s Rhetoric: Reinterpreting InventionRhetorical Review Vol. 4 No. 2 (Jan 1986) And so for day 314825.07.2015

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Worlds & Encounters & Standing on Guard

Posted on July 19, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Bahar OrangWhere Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty[ 102-103 ] Daniel Coleman In Bed With the Word is invoked for his take on Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of suspicion and hermeneutics of affirmation. Reading is ecological for what it does to our … Continue reading →

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The Complexities of Even Simple Language

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Samuel R. DelanyMad Man Thought is part of language. But everything we perceive, either through our senses, or through our bodily feelings, or through sitting in the dark with our eyes closed, remembering or thinking or figuring, is the linguistic … Continue reading →

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Textile & Temporal Experiences

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Nicola WinbornIn group interviewin Periodicity I absolutely love the way that art involving sewing, stitching, weaving alters our sense of time and our experiences of consciousness within time. Yes, I do become hypnotised, meditative, disconnected, loose. These are all beautiful … Continue reading →

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Biomass and Malleability

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Julia KristevaLe génie féminin 1. Hannah Arendt Il lui importe avant tout de sauver la liberté de « qui » au sein d’une pluralité politique optimale, et de ne pas le livrer à un inconscient incontrôlable. Elle prend ainsi le … Continue reading →

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