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Sources of Our Power: Coming Out (Again)
Cross-posting to the blog. Subject: That was then — this is now — they’re connected Dear Colleagues I am sending this by email with my permission to propagate. People ask me how I am coping. I learnt a lot from … Continue reading
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The Spent and the Extended
A good place to begin thinking about social infrastructure and the impact of epidemics is to trace with Sontag the economics of psychic investments and divestments… Susan Sontag Illness as Metaphor Early capitalism assumes the necessity of regulated spending, saving, … Continue reading
Off-scene Etymology Pushed Off-stage
Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor In my reading I stumbled across an item of interest to lexicographers… Sontag notes Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because … Continue reading
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A Child Is Being Beaten
Greg Evason The Red Blind Toronto: The Pink Dog Press, 1991 Speak the spank of language of childhood in a whisper or a scream. For more on this extraordinary book https://berneval.hcommons-staging.org/2013/05/27/magnifying-portions-or-reading-the-red-blind/ And so for day 2720 25.05.2014
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From the Gazebo to the Outhouse
Donald F. Theall “Transformations of the Book in Joyce’s Dream Vision of Digiculture” HJS Vol. 4 Issue 2 (2003-04) http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/archives/v3/theall4.html Simultaneously Joyce associates the very nature of the manuscript and book with a fluidity. At various moments in the Wake … Continue reading
Images We Grow Into Through Rooted Imaginings
Sarah West, nature art therapist and good soul sketched this “little professor” or “wizard” bear meant to represent yours truly. Other examples of her art can be found at Rooted Imaginings. http://www.rootedimaginings.com/ Note the room in rooted imaginings for the … Continue reading
Toys and Typologies
Watched the opening episode of 19-2 and thought about Adam 12 and behold there appeared a toy police car replica of the Adam 12. I don’t think Adam 12 was quite as psychological as 19-2. But not quite Hawaii-5-0 in … Continue reading
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Discovery and Joy
I am currently reading (have currently read) A Hacker’s Manifesto by McKenzie Wark who is much inspired by Deleuze and Guattari. From my reading I note two sentences (order inverted by me) from section 060 … The virtuality of the … Continue reading
Group Experiences of Time: décalage et synchronisation
Trying to keep in mind both calendar and time zones may be mind bending. As one commentator wrote at jill/txt in response to “patterns thankfully disrupted” dated Friday: March 12, 2004 and trying to explain his pluralization of “calendars”. Let … Continue reading
Repartee
Clever perhaps not. Scintillating surely. The glass is neither half full nor half empty. It is filled with whiskey awaiting seltzer. Refreshing assuredly. And so for day 2710 15.05.2014
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