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Of The Endings of Games
Trying to decipher a thought process from 2001 or 2002. The entries are not dated but occur between entries that are. More mishaps. Misspelt author. Missing publication information. The notebook has “Callois” and page numbers. And no title. No translator’s … Continue reading
Dice Incisions
From a note dated 30/07/97 […] highly intriguing formulation: the production of randomness in a literary (machine) text is a safeguard against entropy. In one sense this is a homeopathic theory of semiotics. A certain degree of nonsense is incorporated … Continue reading
Notes on Improvisation
Entry from a 1996 notebook recording a conversation with Craig Squires. Risks of Improvisation know people well danger of falling into old habits when you don’t know the people well you can’t “hear” because you don’t know their vocabulary for people you … Continue reading
Randomness and Reproduction
Came across a proposal from the mid 90s. The proposal is very lapidary in its prose. At this late remove, it seems too simple and yet under-explained. The proposal began thus Characterizable by certain investments, reproductive consciousness manifests a desire … Continue reading
inno’va-tion
Signed “James Downey”, the introduction to inno’va-tion: Essays by Leading Canadian Researchers contains an apt description of the ingredients of the research process While researchers may use highly sophisticated machines, they themselves are subject to the same vagaries of chance … Continue reading
Oneiric Composition
The description of dream reminds one of the structure of story. People think dreams aren’t real because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and … Continue reading
Bound together: Serendipity
Algol “The Magazine about Science Fiction” vol. 12 no. 2, Issue no. 24, Summer 1975. There is a half page advertisement (page 36) from/about the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. The ad copy reads in part: […] is one of 73,000 active … Continue reading
Freedom, a non-destination non-determinative view
Xavier Tilliette Merleau-Ponty ou la mesure de l’homme in the series Philosophes de tous les temps. I like to place this remark about perception awakened being akin to sending science in a dizzying spin Réveiller la perception, c’est étourdir la … Continue reading