Category Archives: Uncategorized

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

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment

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

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Leave a comment

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

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Leave a comment

Beauty, Heredity, Health

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Sina QueyrasRooms: women, writing, Woolf I like how this sentence ripples: Coping mechanisms are handed down, as well as literary strengths – they are not always the healthiest, but they often have beauty. And so for day 311926.06.2015

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Leave a comment

Rolled Not Folded

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Francois Lachance

John Ota“Gamble House Kitchen”The Kitchen: A journey through history in search of the perfect design Stacked underneath the end counters are wide drawers containing tablecloths rolled to prevent creasing. I make a note of this excellent tip. And so for … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Discursive Dislocations

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Leo Bersani“Representation and Its Discontents”in Allegory and Representation ed. Stephen Greenblatt (150-151). Sexuality would be that which is intolerable to the structured self. [… commentary on Jean Laplanche Life and Death in Psychoanalysis … ] Sexuality would be desire satisfied … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Beyond Ending

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Francois Lachance

David RakoffLove, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perishwith illustrations by Seth Accomplished on many fronts: a novel in verse. A novel weaving the delicate impingement of characters across plot lines, little tricks of narration fostering in the reader a knowingness about … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment