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Slip Sliding

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Francois Lachance

John Berger on Cy Twombly as quoted by Peter Schwenger Asemic: The Art of Writing (p. 49) He doesn’t see language with the readability and clarity of something printed out. He sees it, rather as a terrain full of illegibilities, … Continue reading →

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The Rules of Play

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Kate Raworth “Get Savvy with Systems” Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist Worth quoting at length this capsule history of the Monopoly board game. The game’s inventor, Elizabeth Magie, was an outspoken supporter of Henry … Continue reading →

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Counting What Counts

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Kate Raworth Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist I like the shift from the spoken to the thought captured in a neat tricolon: Economics is the mother tongue of public policy, the language of public … Continue reading →

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Amateurs and Authorities

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Edward Said, Reith Lectures 1993: Representations of an Intellectual Lecture 4: Professionals and Amateurs Broadcast: 2 August 1993 – BBC Radio 4 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/radio4/transcripts/1993_reith4.pdf The final paragraphs — inviting us to think about authority and audience: Therefore, the problem for the … Continue reading →

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Affirmation of the Elm

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Francois Lachance

John Terpstra Naked Trees From the final entry (“Yes”) to the ABC “A deciduary” [last words of the book] There is a white elm behind the shape of our twenty-fifth letter. In the upper case. That single stem dividing in … Continue reading →

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Sentience and Transience

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Cory Doctorow “I, Row-Boat” in Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present From the perspective of the instance of an AI He left an instance of himself running on the rowboat, of course. Unlike many humans, Robbie was comfortable with the … Continue reading →

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Voracious

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Andreas Malm Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming Some blazing rhetoric to stoke the machine of revolution: Capital does not eat because someone is hungry: capital always eats. The ecological voracity of this … Continue reading →

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Heterochrony

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Mieke Bal Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative Fourth Edition “Heterochrony” My choice of the term heterochrony is motivated by the emphasis on difference, rather than multiplicity only. Migration, a much-discussed topic of our time, is the exemplary situation … Continue reading →

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Three Stress Busters

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Francois Lachance

1 ) Breathe 2 ) Reduce the number of goals I set including reducing the number of goals I set. 3 ) Smile And so for day 2861 12.10.2014

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ab ovo: social comforts and refinements

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Francois Lachance

The Sayings of Poor Richard (Toronto: The British Educational Society, [nd]) reprints a biography from 1938 published by The Grolier Society Limited in which one reads: He never countenanced the accumulation of wealth for its own sake, but for its … Continue reading →

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