Category Archives: Perception

The Nose Knows

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass Part Two: Bulvangar One morning there was a different smell in the air, and the ship was moving oddly, with a brisker rocking from side to side instead of plunging and soaring […] The smell … Continue reading →

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Mirror and the Other

Posted on August 16, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Poet Gwendolyn MacEwen in “The Return” has a line that would make a nice inscription around a mirror: To perceive you is an act of faith And so we jump landing again on skeptical ground. So we weave. And so … Continue reading →

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Rapprochements

Posted on August 15, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Gay Bilson in Plenty: Digressions on food has a chapter that takes the title and form of a pillow book. The first of the entries plays to the ear. “Things that make one’s heart beat faster” I walked through the … Continue reading →

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Freedom, a non-destination non-determinative view

Posted on August 9, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Xavier Tilliette Merleau-Ponty ou la mesure de l’homme in the series Philosophes de tous les temps. I like to place this remark about perception awakened being akin to sending science in a dizzying spin Réveiller la perception, c’est étourdir la … Continue reading →

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Timbre, Smile-Stamped

Posted on July 2, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Of the many facts found in Angus Tremble’s introduction to A Brief History of the Smile this one makes me close my eyes and listen and attempt to project myself into a different sensory experience of the world. Blind people … Continue reading →

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Boom!

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Francois Lachance

A commonplace blog is like the tape recorders described in The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs. Here are some excerpts spliced into a new ordering: A tape recorder is an externalized section of the human nervous system. You … Continue reading →

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Sensoria

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Francois Lachance

I have been basking in the pleasant prose of the The Cluetrain Manifesto. The following segment sums up both the horror and beauty of being human – the joys and tribulations of being open to information overload. I am reminded … Continue reading →

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5en5e5

Posted on March 25, 2007 by Francois Lachance

A hand for memory… Mapped to the hand according to distance from object of perception (length of digit as bar in graph) thumb = touch index = smell middle = sight ring = hearing pinky = taste we depart from … Continue reading →

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Sound layers

Posted on March 7, 2007 by Francois Lachance

I’ve experienced Tomatis effects by which I mean the contribution that earphones can make in civilizing computer use, that is allow for two or triple sound layers to sculpt the immersive experience. You are invited to test or demo for … Continue reading →

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Tic Toc Tow

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Francois Lachance

In Volume 8, Issue 7 (February 20, 2007 – February 26, 2007) of Ubiquity in a piece entitled “Cyberspace, Cosmology, and the Meaning of Life” I follow the discursive dance steps of Albert Borgmann and am enchanted by a peculiar … Continue reading →

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