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Self and Selves
Excerpt from a comment entry to George Williams’s blog Thanks for Not Being a Zombie (December 10, 2005) I like how questions about the constructions of personna and of audience converge on the thematics of authenticity. But constructions are perpetually … Continue reading
Composition as Dialogue
Snipped from elsewhere, composed here. Analogies of Dialogue Perhaps by analogy one could claim that the modular elements of a film are assembled in a such a manner as to constitute a performance of dialgoue. Parts work with or against … Continue reading
Contiguous Files
File F is located close to File G. And this closeness allows me to read these passages close together. Jane Flax. Thinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary West (1990) [p. 217] “In Foucault’s work the aesthetic is … Continue reading
Word Associations
On the talker Madhouse there is a game of word association that reminds one of the practices of renga. Days will go by before a response comes forward. Sometimes within one day there will be a run. (Jul 5 18:20) … Continue reading
Seasonings
In December 1999, I sent out to a distribution list the following wintery lines Through and past the powdery snow Through and past the wet slush Kathleen Beall responded: into the spring and the returning songbirds into the spring and … Continue reading
Hermetic theft
Shoshana Fehlman in a book on Lacan writes Each time the analyst speaks, interprets in the analytic situation, he gives something asked of him. What he gives, however, is not a superior understanding, but a reply. […] the interpretative gift … Continue reading