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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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Startling Epithet

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Francois Lachance

John PowersOn Jules and Jim Catherine becomes one of the modern movies’ triumphant characterizations – the anima as autocrat. And so for day 313613.07.2015

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On Script

Posted on July 12, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Robert BringhurstThe Solid Form of LanguageGaspereau Press, 2004 Languages that have no native speakers, and no more than a few eccentric readers, might just as well be written in phonetics. Scholarship is grand, but it is not the same as … Continue reading →

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A Dose of Pastiche

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Donna Hardway [sic]“Marx’s Eschatology”Telos No. 50 Winter 1981-82 Marx wasn’t interested in economics. However, in his day, you couldn’t get anything published on the subject he was really interested in — sex. […] Freud wasn’t interested in sex. […] It’s … Continue reading →

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Lines, Arrivals, Departures

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Bruce Baugh“Making the Difference: Deleuze’s Difference and Derrida’s Differance”Social Semiotics Vol 73 No. 29 1997 I like this summarizing statement at the end of the essay that pickups the terms discussed earlier and delivers a nice set of lines to … Continue reading →

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The Dangers of Deictics

Posted on July 4, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Aphorisms are dangerous. This is not an aphorism. And so for day 312704.07.2015

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Moving Goalposts

Posted on June 27, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Gene YoungbloodSecession from the Broadcast Utopia is no longer understood as not possible because it’s too ideal, but as not permitted because it’s too radical. And so for day 312027.06.2015

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