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Intertexts, Zombies and Multiple Selves
Came across a note suggesting a piece of research. That is, whether the multiple protagonists (whose names all begin with “J”) who populate The Female Man by Joanna Russ might in small part be connected to the “Jane” hero of … Continue reading
Once Again: The Criminal Element and Tool Appreciation
Max Brand The False Rider (a western novel) describes a safecracker or lock picker and the tools of the trade … He did not need most of those tools for the delicate task which was in his hands now, but … Continue reading
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Grace and Tool Design
From the perspective of an assassin comes this mediation on the design of tools, from William Gibson’s novel All Tomorrow’s Parties. The handles of a craftsman’s tools bespeak an absolute simplicity, the plainest forms affording the greatest range of possibilities … Continue reading
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Star Drumming
From a piece of ephemera announcing a star drumming workshop facilitated by Robin Armstrong where participants learn how to play an I Ching hexagram comes this sentence: Over everyone’s head is a different star, and under our feet is the … Continue reading
Elements Reacting
I look to Primo Levi in The Periodic Table to incite the sharpest attention to particularity. Iron ends with the refusal of monuments. Ironic that words are all that remain about a person who was not the sort that stories … Continue reading
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Musical Pathways
Gary Burton, vibraphonist, on formative impact of music education Burton believes the pleasure of music has a formative impact on the brain. In a sense, entertainment is education. It helps a child grow. At certain early ages, Burton says, the … Continue reading
Who’s your Daddy?
I wish I had come across this interesting bit when I was reading the work of anthropologist Marilyn Strathern in the context of miautics or fables of who gives birth to what. I might have been able to splice it … Continue reading
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Typology of Multimedia Activity
I found this passage from a 1999 posting to a discussion list of a fragment from an email message: See http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Archives/Virginia/v13/0246.html I’m concluding the online learning course for continuing studies. I’ve got a couple of additional pieces to add to … Continue reading
I Am Radio
There is a passage in Allen S. Weiss Phantasmic Radio which somehow makes me think of a typology of human communicative behaviour. It is for me very suggestive. In the passage from the preface to his book, Weiss signals the … Continue reading
The Famous alt attribute on img
Had fun back in ’98 in creating seamless access to HTML that contained image elements. [image] Green Eggs [image] Hold the Ham became in a text browser [Have] Green Eggs [and] Hold the Ham Silly and a wonderful expanse of … Continue reading
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