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Scrap and Scrape

Dominique Scarfone The Time Before Us https://talksonpsychoanalysis.podbean.com The “true past”, indeed, is not a “scrapbook,” let alone a “scrapyard,” but a most precious possession; it is not something dead and useless, but a treasure of references that nourish the present … Continue reading

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Remnants: Passage of the Borrower

The World Is Not Done Yet A Weblication of Theoretical Poetics https://theworldisnotdoneyet.com by Annie Grosshans Such personal poignancy : After, when I sorted the remnants in his wallet, his library card, still there. poised between an after and a still … Continue reading

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Refrain

Jane Siberry ‘Hockey’ on bound by the beauty album Don’t let those Sunday afternoons Get away get away get away get away Break away break away break away break away part of the pleasure is the gentle morphing of “get … Continue reading

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What’s in a name?

Fredric Jameson Hegel Variations The problem with names is that, deeply embedded in history, after a certain time and at different rates of speed they begin to show their age. Some systems are canonized and as it were mummified, others … Continue reading

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Teachable Teacher as Desiring Machine

Astrid Ensslin (“Towards Relational Posthumanism: Writing new body worlds in digital fiction”) in the Spectrums of Digital Humanities series hosted by McGill University Digital Humanities provided theoretical background and screen shots of a project (“Writing New Bodies“) which uses methods … Continue reading

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Rhymes With Structure

In the question and answer session to a talk by Astrid Ensslin (“Towards Relational Posthumanism: Writing new body worlds in digital fiction”) in the Spectrums of Digital Humanities series hosted by McGill University Digital Humanities, Dene Grigar remarking on the … Continue reading

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Visual Pun

Jeremy Round The Independent Cook illustrated by Michael Daley Many a joke has been produced from the homonym pair, mousse & moose, but perhaps none so fine as this illustration accompanying a recipe for Sweet Olive Mousse. And so for … Continue reading

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Pattern Recognition

Oscar Wilde The Decay of Lying To be set up as a meditation on Barthes’s Empire of Signs And so, if you desire to see a Japanese effect, you will not behave like a tourist and go to Tokio. On … Continue reading

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As If Donning a Rococo Wig: Listening and Noting

Would there be sampling here? Fanfarinette / Rameau Holberg Suite, Op. 40: III. Gavotte / Greig I unfortunately don’t read music and go by my faulty ear but there may here be a musical intertext. What the ear discovered, the … Continue reading

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A Very Canadian Etiquette Exchange

Our mutual friend comments: Tue, July 22, 2014 10:31 pm We live in very sensitive times! : ) Because On Jul 22, 2014, at 6:47 PM Please pass along my apologies to K. for invading her head space…. in any … Continue reading

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