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Ancestor Tales

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Ferenc Juhász The Boy Changed into a Stag: Selected Poems 1949-1967 “Brief confessions about myself” Descendent of men after a different kind of richness… It’s my belief that even the great-grandparents had slithered into poverty, moulted their fine feathers, in … Continue reading →

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Bullet Point Reading

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Don’t quite know how the German got in except as a neat way to express a yearning for the skies… Slab Reading with the paradigm in view of the combinations is reading with syntagm ladders. Die Himmelsgegenden. All points bulleting. … Continue reading →

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Coronation Suite

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Book Thug put me on to Jacob Wren (A Radical Cut in the Texture of Reality) who put me on to Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah (an essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books De origine actibusque aequationis: Rachel Jeantel, Rammellzee, … Continue reading →

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Vocation

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Robert Bringhurst makes a convincing case for taking up a vocation in a lecture given at the University of Victoria, British Columbia in 1998 under the title “The Vocation of Being, The Text of the Whole” available in The Tree … Continue reading →

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Rorty Views

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Like scenes pasted by chance in a scrapbook. Source Richard Rorty. Contingency, irony, and solidarity. Picture Frame A recipe for language games. The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a … Continue reading →

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Dislodging

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Francois Lachance

We have a record of the discussion of the second session at the 1970 colloquium at Cluny on “literature and ideology” [Littérature et idéologies. Colloque de Cluny II. 2, 3, 4 avril 1970. La nouvelle critique. spécial 39 bis]. These … Continue reading →

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Invoking Evocation

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Gregory Ulmer in Teletheory: Gramatology in the Age of Video brings the memoir work of N. Scott Momaday into conjunction with the schizo-analytic work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The one is The Way to Rainy Mountain; the other, … Continue reading →

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Simile of Semiosis

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Gregory Ulmer in his essay in The Anti-Aesthetic [ed. by Hal Foster] pointed to the distinction between allegoresis and allegory as marshalled by Maureen Quilligan. The Language of Allegory: Defining the Genre. [Cornell University Press, 1979]. The difference is characterized … Continue reading →

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Numbering in the Reading Process

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Francois Lachance

The process outlined below is is akin to homolinguistic translation. Its activity is a precursor to computing the text. It provides a primitive mark-up and leaves the mystery of rendition (i.e. reading) open. NUMBER PIECE I Count all the words … Continue reading →

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Heft

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Francois Lachance

The weight of the book in hand, the quality of the paper to support the reproduction of the photographs, these are things I notice because my first read of Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan by Rita Leistner was on … Continue reading →

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