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Crowing

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Francois Lachance

From an interview in The Rusty Toque Kathryn Mockler: What is the best piece of writing advice you’ve heard or been given that you actually use? Lisa Robertson: Writing is the good use of boredom. I try to have a … Continue reading →

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Tracking Attribution

Posted on November 22, 2014 by Francois Lachance

I remember reading as a young boy Hal Borland When the Legends Die (1963) and committing the epigraph to memory: “When legends die the dreams end. When the dreams end there is no more greatness.” Recently all over the WWW, … Continue reading →

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Matters of Choice

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Interactions in Education: A Conversation with Brenda Laurel By Robert Cavalier 05/30/03 RC: What was the main contribution of Aristotle’s writings to your own understanding of HCI? BL: Specifically, it was Aristotle’s definition of theater as a representation of action … Continue reading →

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Words, Music, Dance, Film

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Unabashed plug for great work “Lulu follows a woman coming to terms with saying goodbye and having the courage to move on and start over.” At the beginning of this piece the poem “Do Not Stand at my Grave and … Continue reading →

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If I Knew When….

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Me in 1996 “Storing and Sorting” The human senses, whatever their number and relations, produce events. Events can be connected. This production of events can be experienced, can be induced, can be guided. Memory plays a major role in this … Continue reading →

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Phrases About and From Max Jacob

Posted on November 16, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Rosanna Warren Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters About: p. 301 redefining fiction as an art not so much of plot as of voice p. 309 what it meant to write a modern poem: not an explosive device, … Continue reading →

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Impermanent Signs of Impermanence

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Francois Lachance

I like how Willard McCarty captures some of the weathering of the fences and peeling paint; they would make fine wallpaper in a digital setting. What I also find touching here is the vulnerability of the images: they are themselves … Continue reading →

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Eco-Leninism

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Offering a programme and a reference to a call to action, Andreas Malm in Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency States in advanced capitalist countries could claim to have acted on the dangers of pandemics the moment they made the following announcement: … Continue reading →

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Millenial Durations

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Robert Macfarlane The Lost Spells On the oak … a refrain Three hundred years to grow, three hundred more to thrive, three hundred years to die — nine hundred years alive Quite the summation. Yet a familiar story arc. Makes … Continue reading →

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Elegant Eloquence

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Peter Schwenger Asemic: The Art of Writing (p. 136) In works that no longer deliver a message, eloquence has been replaced by elegance. And simplicity replaces elegance. And so for day 2887 07.11.2014

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