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Paean

“The Recombinant City” 1995 Forward by William Gibson to Dhalgren This is how Gibson begins… Samuel Delany’s Dhalgren is a prose-city, a labyrinth, a vast construct the reader learns to enter by any one of a multiplicity of doors. Once … Continue reading

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Heft

The weight of the book in hand, the quality of the paper to support the reproduction of the photographs, these are things I notice because my first read of Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan by Rita Leistner was on … Continue reading

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Out Bound

In French one observes the link between to read (“lire”) and to bind (“lier”). Spellbinding. Leads one to ponder the etymology of “read”. And of course how one’s experience with the act of reading may be conditioned by one’s participation … Continue reading

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Morals, Legacies and Books

Patti Smith about the recording of Horses at Electric Lady. From her memoir, Just Kids. Jimi Hendrix never came back to create his new musical language, but he left behind a studio that resonated all his hopes for the future … Continue reading

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Melancholy, Struggle and Book Reading

Gregory Ulmer. Applied Grammatology. The book is perhaps the most charged cathected object in Western civilization, representing, according to Freud’s analysis of his own dream of the botanical monograph, the Mother. Derrida’s frequent allusions to the need for mourning (a … Continue reading

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From Blackboard to Book and Beyond

D.F. McKenzie. in text first published in 1984 and collected in Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts proposes: Only as its memory systems have grown has the computer changed its nature from blackboard to book. It has at long last … Continue reading

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Visual and Biological

One imagines festivals like Burning Man. One imagines the lost world of labyrinth walking. Tracing a path as a means not to forget. These thoughts were inspired by Bruce Brown “Memory Maps and the Nazca” in Reframing Consciousness where he … Continue reading

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Gatherings

Joy Harjo has a line in “The Field of Miracles” in The woman who fell from the sky: poems that opens the imagination to the strength of attentions to particulars: the leaf a codex for the season of memory The … Continue reading

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