Tag Archives: Game

Play Worlds, Gathering Times

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Francois Lachance

we gather acorns, at recesswe pluck strawberries, on vacation And so for day 317420.08.2015

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A Dose of Pastiche

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Donna Hardway [sic]“Marx’s Eschatology”Telos No. 50 Winter 1981-82 Marx wasn’t interested in economics. However, in his day, you couldn’t get anything published on the subject he was really interested in — sex. […] Freud wasn’t interested in sex. […] It’s … Continue reading →

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1 2 3 4

Posted on June 28, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Where did this came from, I have no recollection. I like how cardinals and ordinals mix in the reader’s mind … Imperfect Ballad There were four. Two went to the zoo.Three, to sea. Four, out the door.One is gone, gone, … Continue reading →

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On readiness and redness

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Francois Lachance

An encounter with the thought of Umberto Eco through the figure of the anacoluthon. Continue reading →

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Concrete Leavings

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Susan Holbrookink earl p. 50 (in the Food section) easy uverora e c b ld m r s p. 62 (in the Art section) Erasean eraser a  dandsign i  t p. 80 (in the Music section) artandwritingstanda s    ide p. 109 (in the … Continue reading →

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Querying and Queering Digital Humanities

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Francois Lachance

A seriously engaging tour de force. “Why Are the Digital Humanities So Straight?” by Edmond Y. Chang in Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities edited by Dorothy Kim, Adeline Koh It is described as “An essay in the form of … Continue reading →

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In A Previous Life I Was a Crème Caramel

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Brooks Haxton, translator Fragments: the collected wisdom of Heraclitus 17 Pythagoras may well have been the deepest in his learning of all men. And still he claimed to recollect details of former lives, being in one a cucumber and one … Continue reading →

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The Rules of Play

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Kate Raworth “Get Savvy with Systems” Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist Worth quoting at length this capsule history of the Monopoly board game. The game’s inventor, Elizabeth Magie, was an outspoken supporter of Henry … Continue reading →

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Human Alliance & Network Games

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Francois Lachance

A game … A name … Bolo is a video game created for the BBC Micro computer by Stuart Cheshire in 1987, and later ported to the Macintosh in its most popular incarnation. It is a networked multiplayer game that … Continue reading →

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No, more pipelines

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Note the comma placement. Transcription: [in ink] | < [centred over "more"] [in pencil] No, more pipelines Giving at St. Mikes philanthropy who gives what when to                                              whom who gets acknowledged . * * * * * * * I … Continue reading →

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