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Hermeneutics of Participatory Action

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Francois Lachance

To understand is to practice: Understanding is necessarily practical; its significance is only realised when it is put into practice or performed (like a play or a game). Morad FarhadpourThought/translationRendered by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gouldhttps://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:32722/datastreams/CONTENT/content And so for … Continue reading →

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Two Steps

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Francois Lachance

The companion … In the course of a walk, we usually find out something about our companion, and this is true even when we travel alone. The season … Daily walking, in all weathers, in every season, becomes a sort … Continue reading →

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Attunement

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Bessel Van der KolkThe Body Keeps the Score Being in tune with other members of our species […] is enormously rewarding. What begins as the attuned play of mother an child continues with the rhythmicity of a good basketball game, … Continue reading →

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On the Passagenwerk

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Transcribed from Susan Buck-Morss in One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin (1993) https://ubu.com/film/benjamin_fragments.html at 53:30 The border police in Spain would not let them pass. And it was that night that Benjamin took an overdose of morphine and committed … Continue reading →

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Acting, Imagining, Symbolizing

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Francois Lachance

a snippet from Lev Manovich on pedagogical theory and interface design: Piaget > Bruner > Kay Continue reading →

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Of Types of Tokens

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Francois Lachance

A set of quotations from Shermin Voshmgir about NFTs and other tokens. Continue reading →

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Où est le Garlic?

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Alice B. ToklasAromas and Flavors of past and present“Preface”1st paragraph Very few people are indifferent to either the aroma or flavor of garlic. One is affected favorably or unfavorably. It may have been the odor of garlic with which Henry … Continue reading →

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On readiness and redness

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Francois Lachance

An encounter with the thought of Umberto Eco through the figure of the anacoluthon. Continue reading →

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Distinctions

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Catherine Kelsey Critical Practice 1980 O, an eloquent & interesting passage on the lexical shift in the meaning of “disinterested” In a quite different area, however, it may be that the recent and increasingly common blurring of the distinction between … Continue reading →

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The Reach … The Remembered

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Francois Lachance

I am reminded of the title The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition by Judy Grahn by a fragment from Sarah Dowling “This Word: I Want” Entering Sappho apple-pickers forgot, you missed it — the pluckers and not … Continue reading →

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