Tag Archives: Imagination

Gifts

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Inventing Kindergarten by Norman Brosterman is a beautiful book. Design complements content. Which is fitting in a book devoted to Froebel’s system. […] the ultimate lesson of kindergarten was straightforward: the world (nature), mathematics (knowledge), and art (beauty) were interchangeable, … Continue reading →

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Sensing, Recording, Imagining

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Francois Lachance

David Wojnarowicz in Close to the Knives invites a rethinking of the situation of the imagination: There is really no difference between memory and sight, fantasy and actual vision. Vision is made of subtle fragmented movements of the eye. These … Continue reading →

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Lesbian and Gay Pride Day

Posted on June 24, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Adam Mars-Jones, “Gay Rights and Wrongs” collected in Blind Bitter Happiness reviewing among others David Halperin’s Saint Foucault A man who could say (speaking to Gilles Barbedette), ‘I think we should consider the battle for gay rights as an episode … Continue reading →

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Impermanence

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Francois Lachance

It is worth sometimes to revisit the passages copied out for placement in a gathering of commonplaces. For example this snippet from the C.K. Scott Moncrieff translation of Cities of the Plain “The Heart’s Intermissions” seems a tad melancholic: The … Continue reading →

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Varying

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Francois Lachance

“Being Among Words” Interview with Denis Donoghue in The Pure Good of Theory Blackwell, 1992 p. 96 The only real justification for literature is that it provides us with ways of imagining what it would be like to be different. … Continue reading →

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