Tag Archives: Aleatory

Found and Found Again

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Hannah Alpert-Abrams I’m starting to believe it’s ok to think of the content we produce for the internet as ephemera. It’s fine if it disappears. And if it happens to re-emerge thanks to someone’s archival care or the vagaries of … Continue reading →

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Construction and Chance

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Francois Lachance

CRAL – Centre de Recherches sur les arts et le langage Séminaires « Recherches contemporaines en narratologie » At 48 minutes in, Daniel Ferrer proposes that the notion of implied author (from Wayne Booth) be set alongside a passage from … Continue reading →

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Brown Bodies – Resistances

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Aleatory curating. The titles of their books: Hana Shafi It begins with the body Maged Zaher the consequences of my body The use of anaphora and repetition: i stayed up all night writing poetry drank my sadness; it was sweet … Continue reading →

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Encounters

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Juan Gabriel Váquez in Browse: The World in Bookshops edited by Henry Hitchings. Reflections on chance: A reader’s life is, among other things, this tissue of opportune coincidences. And so by luck we arrive. And so for day 2398 07.07.2013

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Recouping the Aleatory

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Francois Lachance

It is a challenge to decide which quotation to put first. Here they are in chronological order. Suggesting perhaps some filiation. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, … Continue reading →

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A Tool in the Sky

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Francois Lachance

To fully appreciate the bravura of the ending to this poem, you need to recall the beginning. “a brief history of time” concludes “the mezzaluna rocking” section of Heartland by Michele Leggott. the book slips past my ears on the … Continue reading →

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Renku Materials

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Scraps fall out of an envelope and this is how they are put together. One block on one slip: scent grinds you gawking cornered And then on a separate sheet, another round, more extended: elbow hollow    neck crook scent grinds you … Continue reading →

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Necessary Chances

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Francois Lachance

“Where Chance Meets Necessity” Somewhere in the city of New York there are four or five still-unknown objects that belong together. […] The city has an infinite number of interesting objects in an infinite number of unlikely places. Charles Simic. … Continue reading →

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Ripples

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Francois Lachance

from the Sixth Walk… Then the rippling of fibres converted themselves again to foliage, as all speech converts itself to foliage in the night, and I felt this rippling simultaneously all over my skin. It was not necessary to differentiate … Continue reading →

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77-78

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Francois Lachance

It is a coincidence that the text is discussing changes in situation and the sentence necessitates a page turn to continue on and complete the transition. And a further co-incident is the theme of chance. For Cage, the composer is … Continue reading →

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