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Kairos

Posted on January 1, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Newspaper headlines blast. “[Insert Name] hangs.” Weird prolongation. Grammar could be kinder to the State Ideological Apparatus. Avoiding prurient humour attached to the simple past form of the verb is easy. Some of the papers get in one word both … Continue reading →

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Playing

Posted on December 31, 2006 by Francois Lachance

Revisiting the claims put forth under the name McKenzie Wark in A Hacker Manifesto there is an opportunity to rethink the expressive power of insemination and resituate diddling practices. Paragraph 257: This expressive politics does not seek to overthrow the … Continue reading →

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Working

Posted on December 30, 2006 by Francois Lachance

Sometimes a sentence serves as a hook, point of friction to rub over while taking note of the smoother surround. Take for instance a segment in a McKenzie Wark signed text. An excerpt from Paragraph 212 of A Hacker Manifesto … Continue reading →

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Ardour

Posted on December 29, 2006 by Francois Lachance

Adriana Hunter marvellously translates Catherine Millet’s candour as recorded in The Sexual Life of Catherine M. and is particularly adept as conveying the play of pronoun reference: […] an ability to program the body independently of physical reactions. A body … Continue reading →

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Reciprocity

Posted on December 28, 2006 by Francois Lachance

In contrasting spectacle with carnival, Susan Stewart in On Longing exposes the psycho-dynamics of the spectacular: [T]he viewer of the spectacle is absolutely aware of the distance between self and spectacle. The spectacle functions to avoid contamination: “Stand back, ladies … Continue reading →

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Knick-knack

Posted on December 25, 2006 by Francois Lachance

Almost Japanese by Sarah Sheard has one passage that uncannily reminds some readers of the scene describing the results of a special un- and reclassifying of the elements of a collection in Jane Urquhart’s novel The Whirlpool. That which a … Continue reading →

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Conveyance

Posted on December 21, 2006 by Francois Lachance

Brian Swann in the introduction to Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems explains the nature of song sounds. He elaborates in a note: Vocables, until recently dubbed “meaningless syllables,” can in fact be very complex. It has been pointed … Continue reading →

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