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A little piece of text given line breaks and some boxes. [Our addition of interlinked “boxes”.] By design, we mean more than graphic design; we mean the development of a comprehensive structure by which people access information. This includes all … Continue reading
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Homage
Andrew Holleran in his essays collected in Ground Zero strikes a tone that borders on the ironic and then pulls away to a quiet, contemplative assertion of the value of pragmatic attention. Take, for instance, the conclusion to “The Absence … Continue reading
Markets and Sensuality
But a small excerpt from a travel piece built around enumeration, Anaïs Nin “The Labyrinthine City of Fez” in the section “Enchanted Places” in In Favor of the Sensitive Man and other essays After color and the graceful sway of … Continue reading
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Laboratory, Sanctuary, Diary
Anaïs Nin in a 1971 interview in Vogue collected in In Favor of the Sensitive Man and other essays talks about the origins of her famous diary. I began the diary at the age of eleven on the ship coming … Continue reading
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Triggers
Doris Lessing remarks in Particularly Cats Perhaps, it is some definite movement a bird makes, some particular signal, that attracts the hunter in a cat, and until that movement occurs, a cat is not involved with the bird, has no … Continue reading
Sovereign Information
At one point in The Philosopher’s Stone: Chaos, Synchronicity, and the Hidden Order of the World David Peat contrasts an information theory view of communication with what might be characterized as a mental construction theory. The problem with the [information] … Continue reading
Worlds and Time
In the “Emmulations” chapter of Sense I ended up tracing how narrataivity depends upon sequence and thus operates across sensory modalities. I was quite pleased to later discover that Marie-Laure Ryan in “Transmedial Narratology and Concepts of Narrative” arrives at … Continue reading
Catching On
Roland Barthes from Elements of Semiology translated by Annette Lavers and Colin Smith Speech (parole): In contrast to the language, which is both institution and system, speech is essentially an individual act of selection and actualization; it is made in … Continue reading
Not All Pigs Are Equal
A longer quotation to tell the tale well: The vast majority of Haitians in the early 1980s were subsistence farmers with an annual income of about $130. The pigs were the “master component of the Haitian peasant production system,” according … Continue reading
Home or Less
There’s a never going home built into the unempty occupied by the first person place. I am thinking here of the conclusion of a poem by Chrystos. It is the final poem found in the volume Not Vanishing and here … Continue reading