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The Made and the Making
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet H. Murray examines ways of world making and at its heart is a tension between two modes: There will always be a trade-off between a world that is … Continue reading
Composition as Dialogue
Snipped from elsewhere, composed here. Analogies of Dialogue Perhaps by analogy one could claim that the modular elements of a film are assembled in a such a manner as to constitute a performance of dialgoue. Parts work with or against … Continue reading
Uncomputed
In this passage from Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We translated by Mirra Ginsburg I am struck by the juxtaposition between the Rousseauesque wilderness outside the ordered city. Through the glass the blunt snout of some beast stared dully, mistily at me; yellow … Continue reading
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Not Stopping
From Audre Lorde The Cancer Journals Castaneda talks of living with death as your guide, that sharp awareness engendered by the full possibility of any given chance and moment. For me, that means being — not ready for death — … Continue reading
Consequences and Their Representations
I like how this passage builds the crescendo of exaggeration. Fat Charlie was thirsty. Fat Charlie was thirsty and his head hurt. Fat Charlie was thirsty and his head hurt and mouth tasted evil and his eyes were too tight … Continue reading
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Lists and Curating
Aldous Huxley at the beginning of Heaven and Hell argues for the work of gathering: However lowly, the work of the collector must be done, before we can proceed to the higher scientific tasks of classification, analysis, experiment and theory … Continue reading
Positions and Transpositions
from a while ago, a question snuck in a declaration… the will to write is in part a will to dialogue, is it a will to fracture the self into various listening and speaking positions from sometime in 1997 And … Continue reading
Temporal and Spatial Qualities of the Novel
In honour of Tara Collington, friend from graduate school days, and author of Lectures chronotopiques: Espace, temps et genres romanesques There is an old riff I’ve always imagined to have been invented by some graduate student […] struggling through Kant’s … Continue reading
Our Solitary Nature
One of the most eloquent expressions of our existential condition is given to us by Aldous Huxley in The Doors of Perception We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we … Continue reading
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Perception Capture
From “Hyperboarding: From Aristotle to Brenda Laurel and on…” by Heikki Salo comes this lovely and telling typographical instance: In real world we perseive [sic] and distinguish objects and their relations – this is also true of abstractions like thoughts … Continue reading