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Beyond Mere Description
Gillian Sze“The Hesitant Gaze”quiet night think Ekphrasis is not only to compose a text inspired by the artwork itself, but also to be carried off by the uncontainable surge of memory and affect, judgment and speculation. Teasing out what might … Continue reading
Observing Details
Dr. Selia Karsten’s Course“Holistic Approaches to Information Technology” http://astralsite.com/5011/ Note that the top banner graphic doesn’t link every machine to the same network. There are breaks. (for me this represents the space for the human to be the connecting agent … Continue reading
Betting on the Alphabet
Canadian Journal of Communication Vol 29, No 2 (2004) “Dispelling the Alphabet Effect” Paul Grosswiler https://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/1432/1540 This non-Western ethnocentric interpretation of the impact of Chinese script stands in stark contrast with Logan’s. What Gernet lauded as political unity, Logan mistrusted … Continue reading
Sculpture and the Real and the Quotation and the Real “Quotation”
Ben Lerner from The Lichtenberg Figures A history of the medium fishtailing into a very postmodern consideration of discourse. Beauty cannot account for how the sparkplug works. But if the sparkplug doesn’t work, it is more beautiful. If I display … Continue reading
Flockings
Edward Carson Look here Look Away Look Again We are led to be mindful of space and what traverses space. “”Some Assembly Required” to mind is bird, a networking of neurons airborne And to over hear echoes … “Towards The … Continue reading
A Twinkle
Samuel R. Delany Historifying Marginal Practices in Time and the Literary: Essays from the English Institute Taking on one of the biographers of Hart Crane As a gay man today I read this with a cold eye. As far as … Continue reading
Gross Domestic Product: Its Limitations
First the examples of what’s wrong: If you were the GDP, your ideal citizen would be a compulsive gambler with cancer who’s going through a drawn-out divorce that he copes with by popping fistfuls of Prozac and going berserk on … Continue reading
drawn line has more than one direction
a drawn line has more than one direction or so we are informed by Mark Truscott “There” Branches How many lines in this glimpse of bare tree? […] drawn, a line can never really move in just one direction. It … Continue reading
Disappearing Appearance
Untangling the myth from the fact to make a greater statement about not peering: An ostrich does not bury its head in the sand; it lays its neck flat to the ground so as to appear from a distance like … Continue reading
No Place for Dullness
Edward W. Said Humanism and Democratic Criticism p. 11 drawing on Vico For my purposes here, the core of humanism is the secular notion that the historical world is made by men and women, and not by God, and that … Continue reading