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Francois Lachance Says: May 4th, 2006 at 15:45 The blog voice, as any writing voice, is a filtering attractor. The game of blogging is also like tag mixed with scavenger hunt. Setting the question of self-fashioning aside, the blog is … Continue reading
Toys
From the notes by Gregory Dubinsky to the Kronos Quartet recording of Terry Riley’s The Cusp of Magic The toys [from Emily and Alice’s “extensive collection of musical toys from around the world”] cast their own distinctive spell on this … Continue reading
Low Tech Dividend
No More Teachers, No More Books: The Commercialization of Canada’s Schools by Heather-Jane Robertson builds its critique around this principle: “Our schools need to cultivate advocates not breed entrepreneurs”. She paints a picture of the political climate: But as successive … Continue reading
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Pronouns matter; history even more
I used to admire Arthur Koestler’s The Act of Creation, the diagrams particularly. As entranced as I was there are some passage that did not escape my critical notice. For example I circled the feminine pronouns and wrote “heterosexism” in … Continue reading
Precedence
World of Ends: What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else by Doc Searls and David Weinberger under the rubric “Adding value to the Internet lowers its value” write Sounds screwy, but it’s true. If … Continue reading
Terrible enfant
Andrew Hodges Alan Turing: The Engima of Intelligence The confusion and conflicts that underlay his apparently single-minded homosexual identity reflected the fact that the world did not allow a gay man to be ‘ordinary’ or indeed ‘authentic’; to live simply, … Continue reading
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Hunger
Chandler Burr The Emperor of Scent: a story of perfume, obsession, and the last mystery of the senses — on the nature of algorithms (a wee bit of anthropomorphizing) Unlike other mathematical formulas, algorithms need to be fed data to … Continue reading
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Object, Gift, Memento
Candida Pugh in a September 2007 review (appearing in the Annex Gleaner) of Kyo Maclear’s The Letter Opener chooses to highlight the following: Naiko’s mother languishes in a nursing home, slowly losing herself to Alzheimer’s. The journalist Kana, Naiko’s globe-trotting … Continue reading
Cardinal Virtues: questions of development and speed
The “Epilogue” to E.F. Schumacher. Small is Beautiful ends thus Justice relates to truth, fortitude to goodness, and temperantia to beauty: while prudence, in a sense, comprises all three. The type of realism which behaves as if the good, the … Continue reading
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Word Things
Keith W. Faulkner. Deleuze and the three syntheses of time. He argues Words become symbols; language is symbolic: although words are not things, and things are not words, the principle of reality applies to them both as if words enjoy … Continue reading
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