Category Archives: Perception

Series

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Francois Lachance

As a person deeply interested in narrative sequences and multi-modal sensory translation, I recorded this in a little notebook back on September 8, 1997. Mihailo Markovic Dialectical Theory of Meaning D. Reidel Publishing 1984. Preface to the English Edition xxviii … Continue reading →

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Image and Concept

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Words by Austin Warren from his book Richard Crashaw: A Study in Baroque Sensibility All imagery is double in its reference, a composite of perception and conception. Of these ingredients, the proportions vary. The metaphorist can collate image with image, … Continue reading →

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Touch, Vision and Re-vision

Posted on June 13, 2008 by Francois Lachance

A not very generous assessment from 1996 (though I’m struck by that the concessive “mind you” apostrophe to the reader) … Read Richard Shiff’s piece in Public 13. Interesting take on Benjamin’s notion of aura being implicated in touch and … Continue reading →

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Expression: Sensations and Representations

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Malebranche offers an interesting take on the signifying limits of words. Consider this explanation from Thomas M. Carr Descartes and the Resilience of Rhetoric. The ideal use of words, according to Malebranche, is to communicate the pure ideas of the … Continue reading →

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Receptors

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Francois Lachance

John L. Casti The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation is a dialogue that gathers some thinkers round the theme of machine intelligence. Casti has the character Turing pick up on the character Haldane’s insistence that “Sensory inputs to … Continue reading →

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Feline Perception

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Francois Lachance

In one passage of Particularly Cats Doris Lessing observes and in a sense recreates the sensorium of a familiar creature Her ears, lightly fringed with white that looked silver, lifted and moved, back, forward, listening and sensing. Her face turned, … Continue reading →

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Numbing and Splitting

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Susan Buck-Morss “Walter Benjamin’s Artwork Essay Reconsidered” October 62 (Fall 1992). We are — by a long detour — back to Benjamin’s concerns at the end of the Artwork essay: the crisis in cognitive experience caused by the alienation of … Continue reading →

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Thesis Report

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Things mutate while they are being written, especially big pieces. I found a copy of a “report” to file that documents what I was trying to accomplish in the argumentation of a key passage in my dissertation where I move … Continue reading →

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Dual Sense Appeal

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Francois Lachance

The Firework-Maker’s Daughter by Philip Pullman […] down a little winding alley full of crackling smells and pungent noises […] The chiasmus (sound smell, smell sound) is arresting. So too, the not often combined senses of smell and hearing. And … Continue reading →

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Contentment, breathing and perception

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Francois Lachance

From an undated hand written page of blue ink on blue paper with on the recto an annotation, perhaps later, in black ink “The days of calm bring / something. that I can / group and hold / and release. … Continue reading →

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