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Do You Believe in Magic?
Philip Pullman in The Guardian presents the case for a way of seeing connectedness. I’m relying on poetry to make this point because I think that poetry itself is a kind of enchantment. The effect that certain lines and images … Continue reading
Almost a Sales Pitch
Ian Brown “A Biography of Cannabis” in the Globe and Mail Cannabis makes it impossible to remember all the details that threaten to drown us, and lets us concentrate on the one after the other, laterally and forgetfully. It impairs … Continue reading
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How inexhaustible is the human mind?
This passage from Northrop Frye strongly suggests the verum factum principle of Vico that links the true and the made. Truth is always a beginning; it can never be the end of anything in this world, for there is no … Continue reading
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Mapping, Proximity and Simultaneity
Dan Llyod. Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness Caffeine intake; computer interaction. Provide epiphany. I imagined an arrow swooping like a blackbird through the labyrinth. It says “YOU ARE HERE!” in a point that gets its meaning from the … Continue reading
Fiddlehead Farrago
Other titles in the series are Touch Will Tell and Walk With Your Eyes. The one that interests me is Listen to a Shape. It seems to harken more to the synesthetic experience. All are with words and images by … Continue reading
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Setting Up the Punchline
“Playing against Type” by Doug Gibson – review of Gutenberg’s Fingerprint: Paper, Pixels and the Lasting Impression of Books by Merilyn Simonds The final section of the book allows Merilyn Simonds, the early adopter, to predict where books are going. … Continue reading
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Residues For the Colour Blind
These are from a series inspired by Fisher Price alphabet magnets. Feel Happier in Nine Seconds by Linda Besner glassblowers trumpet delicate lullabies darkness worships sparklers Translated into marked and unmarked letters: glassblowers trumpet delicate lullabies darkness worships sparklers Like … Continue reading
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Rhythm: Seen and Heard
This 1954 book by Langston Hughes with pictures by Robin King provides from its first pages evidence that there was an alternative to the eye-ear dichotomy championed by Marshall McLuhan in the 1960s – a more holistic view of the … Continue reading
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Versions of Form
These notes jump but it is still interesting to see how a transcription of a four-part relation is paired with musings about the thinker’s limitations in regards to cross-modal sensory translations. Nelson Goodman Ways of Worldmaking As meanings vanish in … Continue reading
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seeing as apparent memories but occurring only as speaking
Leslie Scalapino The Weatherman Turns Himself In Spectacle floats location. And in the mode of locating flotation here is a set transcribed with some lineation. Landscape is event, as if one’s action were seen outside one. “Landscape is event, as … Continue reading
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