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Dissipation Anticipation
It is fun to find traces of the French text (spelling Zhabotinski with a terminal ‘i’ in the caption to Figure 16 p. 168 and ‘échelle’ in the legend to Figure F p. 185). Fun because they illustrate marvellously bedevilling … Continue reading
Precious
What is prized, what is praised … They [disciplines in the humanities and social sciences] are indeed precious heritages. […] Like all responsible renovators, we should first check the foundations. Furthermore, we should realize that something of this challenge should … Continue reading
Letting go, connecting
It is a pleasure to lift out a single sentence and savour it. Alienation and mediation are conditions of agency. From Susan Stewart “The Interdiction” Profession 89, Modern Language Association. It is a sentence that so nicely captures the nature … Continue reading
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Bushes of Constellations
Part of an endnote: ” […] At its most literal and modest, hypertext is a computer-mediated indexing apparatus that allows one to craft and follow many bushes of connections among the variables internal to a category. Hypertext is easy to … Continue reading
Journeys, Roads and Companions
A commonplace passage dedicated to anyone who served on a clean up crew after a community event: It takes hours of hierarchy, mind you, to achieve minutes of community, but that may always be true. People who start off by … Continue reading
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Lesbian and Gay Pride Day
Adam Mars-Jones, “Gay Rights and Wrongs” collected in Blind Bitter Happiness reviewing among others David Halperin’s Saint Foucault A man who could say (speaking to Gilles Barbedette), ‘I think we should consider the battle for gay rights as an episode … Continue reading
Hyper Hypo
Somedays you just want to coin words. Hypermulticulturalism: state sanctioned, endorsed and promoted multiculturalism that harnessed the production of difference for the umbrella of a tolerant nationalism. Hypoculturation (acculturation on the sly): process that may lead to the emergence of … Continue reading
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Folding Star
The summer solstice finds me remembering the narrator of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Folding Star and the description well half way into the novel of the experience which explains the title. My favourite time was soon after sunset, when I liked … Continue reading
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Dipping into Perspective
I take it from the framing of the following case that the authors of The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning, Albert R. Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin, are not vegetarian or Christian vegetarians. Other cases may appear to … Continue reading
The F-word
Stewart Brand in How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built Chapter Six “Unreal Estate” proffers a marvellous piece of pastiche: Form follows failure. It closes a paragraph Buildings can’t learn if they don’t last. Most building code systems are … Continue reading