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Aleatory Listening for the Random

Posted on July 21, 2007 by Francois Lachance

In the concluding indictment of technocracy in the Appendix to The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition Theodore Rosazk documents a way of listening to music generated by chance operations. Where moral … Continue reading →

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Ludology Lessons

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Francois Lachance

One of the best explanations of the relations between narration and narrated (I avoid the term “narrative” which in some usage conflates or overlooks the distinction between the telling and the told.) is to be found in Edmund White’s biography … Continue reading →

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Physiology of Enthusiasm

Posted on July 19, 2007 by Francois Lachance

I like to juxtapose this character-focalized definition of eroticism as “a collusion of rhythms” [I think it’s “collusion” and not “collision”] from Julia Kristeva’s novel The Samurai with this excerpt from the chapter “Prophet Dances” in Alice Beck Kehoe’s book, … Continue reading →

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Modes of forgetfulness

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Anne Galloway author of Purse Lips Square Jaw rifts on the fashioning of forgetfulness. (And I forget in which entry or at what date) When I was at UbiComp, surrounded by examples of ubiquitous and merciless memory, I again wondered … Continue reading →

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Cures and Curiosity

Posted on July 17, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Source: Espen Anderson “The S-Curves of Sinks, and Technology” Ubiquity, Volume 6, Issue 19 (June 1-8 2005) Dorothy Parker said: “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” The problem is that not enough people suffer … Continue reading →

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Ditty for the Digital Age

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Somewhere somehow this crossed one of the screens upon which my attention was attached for a moment: Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not … Continue reading →

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Recreation

Posted on July 15, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Thinking of vacations … Until all employees are deemed replaceable, some are deemed disposable. I wonder if economists tote up the true expesne of all those indispensable people. And so for day 213 15.07.2007

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Yogurt Yoga and Contortions

Posted on July 14, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Gayl Jones has a narrator in Mosquito do some neat twists and turns with language, all in a particular voice. […] less they thinks everybody got the dextrosity, I means dexterity, of them circus jugglers. Or what them other circus … Continue reading →

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Misplaced Miser

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Francois Lachance

“Eyes of Flesh, Eyes of Fire” Chapter VIII of Theodore Rosack’s The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition has a wonderful piece of rhetoric that employs the commonplace of not seeing the … Continue reading →

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Keywords

Posted on July 12, 2007 by Francois Lachance

“Technocracy’s Children” Chapter I of Theodore Rosack’s The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition a portion of which was first published in The Nation in 1968 brings to the fore a very … Continue reading →

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