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Discourse Parkour

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Before Twitter there were discussion lists where lurkers found a festival of democratic impulses in action. This is a wee bit of dated humour sent by Midnite of the Stingray talker Q: How many internet mail list subscribers does it … Continue reading →

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Reputation Recipe

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Stardust, the movie based on the Neil Gaiman novel. Robert De Niro as Captain Shakespeare says to the rescued Tristan and Yvaine: An ounce of bargaining, a pinch of trickery, a soupçon of intimidation, et voila! The perfect recipe for … Continue reading →

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Counterfactual Bomb

Posted on May 3, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Lisa Jardine Tanner Lectures https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/Jardine%20Lecture.pdf Lecture II – Science and Government: C. P. SNOW and the Corridors of Power In March 1945, as it became increasingly clear that the US government was inclining toward the use of the newly developed … Continue reading →

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Mirrors, Weapons, and the Search for Authentic Connected Self

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Saeed Jones How We Fight for Our Lives An arc of narrative thematizing mirrors & weapons: But now, pressing myself into the bed’s many pillows, I felt my body and realized that my body could be a passport or a … Continue reading →

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Brokering the Break

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Francois Lachance

https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/rirkrit-tiravanija-talks-politics-cooking-ceramics/ Rirkrit Tiravanija and the Politics of Cooking – interview in Surface Magazine On cycles If we weren’t in the city, you could take the clay out of the ground and make everything literally from scratch. And it can also … Continue reading →

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Neurodiversity & Karma

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Naoki Higashida The Reason I Jump Translated by KA Yoshida and David Mitchell The book is organized as a set of questions and responses. These two are somehow connected for me. And I am grateful for their being side by … Continue reading →

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Recursive Reticulation: Misunderstanding the Mobile

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Two quotations from Yona Friedman Understanding something means misunderstanding it in one’s own way. An architect does not create a city, only an accumulation of objects. It is the inhabitant who ‘invents’ the city; an uninhabited city, even if new, … Continue reading →

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The Claims of Youth – The Claims on Youth

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Francois Lachance

I once had a teacher who said that youth thinks it has a monopoly on sex. By his tone we knew that this claim was being challenged. This debunking nicely complements this bit from Natalia Cecire, a counter-claim about learning. … Continue reading →

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sometimes a mirror: the fog of breath

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Francois Lachance

About the Cameron Jamie show at the Gladstone in Brussels Jamie is presenting what the enterprise is terming a “rogues’ gallery of ceramic masks.” Some are faced away from the viewer, a signature move that the artist seems to use … Continue reading →

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The Fine Particulars

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Francois Lachance

David Naimon of Between the Covers fame Introduction to Ursula K. Le Guin Conversations on Writing a set of three interviews devoted in turn to prose, poetry and non-fiction. This is how he summarizes a key theme: And I was … Continue reading →

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