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Worlds & Encounters & Standing on Guard
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Lines, Arrivals, Departures
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
The Dangers of Deictics
Aphorisms are dangerous. This is not an aphorism. And so for day 312704.07.2015
Moving Goalposts
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