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Audible Colour
Fadeout by Joseph Hansen in the Dave Brandstetter mystery series exhibits like the other novels in the series a knack for the characterization of space. The descriptions of setting are remarkable for how they concisely capture activities. For instance this … Continue reading
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Time Re-manipulated
Thud! by Terry Pratchett is a humourous romp which swings with verve into aphorisms that strike one as allusions to Proustian themes. How the sense of smell serves memory: She prowled onwards in a world of color; smells overlaid one … Continue reading
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Fate of Visions
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
Sensing, Recording, Imagining
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
Perception Reproduction
On aesthetic objects and their production/consumption in a world saturated by digital artefacts and traces: consider that the manipulation of an object, digital or otherwise, can be witnessed by others synchronously either in person or at a distance. consider that … Continue reading
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Visual and Biological
One imagines festivals like Burning Man. One imagines the lost world of labyrinth walking. Tracing a path as a means not to forget. These thoughts were inspired by Bruce Brown “Memory Maps and the Nazca” in Reframing Consciousness where he … Continue reading
Designing for Mutability
The imperative is identified. the need to make design as fluid as possible so that it can pour across the wires into the unpredictable receptacles, rhythms, and ultimately the lives of others. Alan Liu is here referencing material accessed through … Continue reading
Kiss Without Substitution
In the poem it is first introduced as a transcription of graffiti. By poem’s end it is sitting like a manifesto – set off in its own section – the concluding words to “The Protestant” in Tin Can Tourist by … Continue reading
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Filmic Matters
A quotation and three diversions. Barthes. “The Third Meaning: Research Notes on some Eisenstein Stills” trans. Stephen Heath in Image, Music, Text pp. 66-67. If, however, the specific (filmic of the future) lies not in movement but in an inarticulable … Continue reading
Disassociation Assembled
Years ago I participated in a workshop about stress management. One of the exercises involved drawing a picture of our body experiencing stress. Flying apart. It is now like a mandala and less a whirl of lost parts and more … Continue reading
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