Tag Archives: Temporality

Transduction and Assemblages

Posted on December 20, 2008 by Francois Lachance

I’ve quoted this before but my commentary there remains rather lapidary (“Will to do. Makes do.”) and so here again is Adrian Mackenzie. “Transduction: invention, innovation and collective life” (2003) Technological change is consistently and emphatically represented in the form … Continue reading →

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Theory, Practice and the Time of Practice

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Barbara Johnson in the interview published with her Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory as The Wake of Deconstruction says Analysis and action are not necessarily separable, but they may obey different temporalities. Thinking and doing carve out the possibilities of … Continue reading →

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Temporal and Spatial Qualities of the Novel

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Francois Lachance

In honour of Tara Collington, friend from graduate school days, and author of Lectures chronotopiques: Espace, temps et genres romanesques There is an old riff I’ve always imagined to have been invented by some graduate student […] struggling through Kant’s … Continue reading →

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Disabilities of the Mind

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Francois Lachance

This description of Jip from Richard Frost’s Brain and Body is marked by keen observation of being unable to find “the here and now embedded in and explained by what immediately preceded it”. The more I learn about him, the … Continue reading →

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Hopes and Desires

Posted on July 1, 2008 by Francois Lachance

A tiny slip of paper with tiny script upon which is a sort of list headed by “time space + mind” and in slightly larger letters semiotic migration & fractal osmosis ========= a mindfully global       village and swirling around this … Continue reading →

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Catching On

Posted on May 10, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Roland Barthes from Elements of Semiology translated by Annette Lavers and Colin Smith Speech (parole): In contrast to the language, which is both institution and system, speech is essentially an individual act of selection and actualization; it is made in … Continue reading →

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Times

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Susan Stewart from On Longing The simultaneity of the printed word lends the book its material aura; as an object it has a life of its own, a life outside human time, the time of the body and its voice. … Continue reading →

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Counting and Ubiquity

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Francois Lachance

This verse from Gwendolyn MacEwen “Letters to Josef in Jerusalem” lends itself to a reflection upon synchronization. It is countdown; it is the same time everywhere. The time of countdown where anywhere risks becoming a nowhere. And so for day … Continue reading →

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Time Machine Brain: dancing dendrites

Posted on February 18, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Paul Bouissac in “Three Mini-reviews: Focus on the Brain” quotes from Donald Pfaff Brain Arousal and Information Theory: Neural and Genetic Mechanisms Brains are foretelling devices and their predictive powers emerge from the various rhythms they perpetually generate. At the … Continue reading →

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Fate of Visions

Posted on February 2, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Marcel Proust in “The Princesse de Guermantes Receives”, Third Chapter of The Past Recaptured, translated by Frederick A. Blossom, on the fragility of memories and the affordances offered by nebulous recall If I still possessed a copy of […], I … Continue reading →

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