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Composition and Conversation
From a letter to a friend … Camera in hand or not, would you consider the interplay of framing as a dance with the object of contemplation, a dance that supports remembering the object of contemplation? I am led […] … Continue reading
Arethusa & Artemisia
Anna Banti’s novel Artemisia reviewed by Susan Sontag in a game of hide and seek, of lost manuscript, lost novel, found character, found subject … ‘Non piangere.’ Don’t cry. Who is talking to whom? It is the stricken author talking … Continue reading
paratexts and patter
Ever noticed that a truncated acronym can have a marked effect on the public perception of an organization’s mandate? Take for instance CDC which expanded should net “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”. Minding ps and qs. In another matter, … Continue reading
The Learners Actually Teach
The polite question: It is possible that a typing error also occurs in the statement? “The possibility of dialogue is inscribed in the very gesture of theorizing is a gesture of demarcations.” (Humanist 17.341 theory) I asked a friend living … Continue reading
After Alexandria Redux
Grayson James More keepsakes from the show at the Ryerson Image Centre: After Alexandria One muses that this show about books and the traces people leave in them could reference the Alexandria of history’s great library. Or something else. Recto … Continue reading
Smart People on Smart Cities
Attended a panel discussion at InterAccess. Ctrl+Shift: Smart Cities Interesting conclusion – trust generated out of civic engagement can lead to some really innovative city planning and data governance. All the panelists stressed social justice and livability as part of … Continue reading
Circumbendibus
Listening to a performance of Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer I delight in hearing this lovely enumeration and had to share the pleasure with mine eyes: I first took them down Feather-bed Lane, where we stuck fast in the … Continue reading
Seeds Cast from a Train
This is set up by remarks by Jonathan Lethem about the anti-intellectualism of American culture: “even American arts culture has a very violent anti-intellectual streak in it.” Lethem’s remarks help us as viewers understand the poignant finale to The Polymath, … Continue reading
All Around Us
I cannot celebrate enough Jane Byers impeccable justesse in the endings to the poems in the Keen sequence in Acquired Community. Look at how poignant and yet defiant the ending of the last poem in the sequence, “Elegy”, is But … Continue reading
Weak Ties
Clive Thompson in Smarter Than You Think: How technology is changing our minds for the better in the chapter on “Ambient Awareness” rehearses the sociological literature on the strength of week ties; he does so along with compelling anecdotes from … Continue reading