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Streets – Pathways in Flux
The Toronto Public Library at the Bloor/Gladstone Branch hosted an event organized by University of Toronto, School of Cities. Where We Gather: Streets of Toronto featured a panel of speakers moderated by Matti Siemiatycki, Associate Professor and Interim Director, School … Continue reading
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Seeds Cast from a Train
This is set up by remarks by Jonathan Lethem about the anti-intellectualism of American culture: “even American arts culture has a very violent anti-intellectual streak in it.” Lethem’s remarks help us as viewers understand the poignant finale to The Polymath, … Continue reading
The commercial meets the aesthetic meets the political
William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White Elements of Style, 3rd edition (1988) People vs Public The people is a political term, not to be confused with the public. From the people comes political support or opposition; from the public comes … Continue reading
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Cabinet Curiosity
Gay Bilson is known to me not only as a restauranteur by also as a collector of bird nests. Here she is commenting on a commission for the Museum of Economic Botany in Adelaide: Which brings us to [historian and … Continue reading
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Whither the Bed
It is interesting to listen to Foucault reads a piece about heterotopia on radio. For the space of about a half hour we are led through these spaces https://archive.org/details/LesUtopiesReellesOuLieuxEt Les utopies réelles de Michel Foucault : “On ne vit pas … Continue reading
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Noise or Song: Neither
Roger Deakin “The Rookery” Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees The more they flew, the more noise the rooks made. Whether you can call it melody is the question I lay pondering. Gilbert White goes so far as to say ‘rooks … Continue reading
Enclosing Disclosing
The Truth in Painting Jacques Derrida — If police there is (and isn’t there always?) it would here be operating against another police, against another ideological arraignment, and […] — You think people would accept that, that they’d receive it … Continue reading
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Hinge
Samuel R. Delany interview with Terry Bisson in The Atheist in the Attic You wrote a critical appreciation of SF, the Jewel-Hinged Jaw. […] I don’t recall what the title signified. […] The title was not explained in the book. … Continue reading
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Generations and Terminations
Julia Cooper The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy [A] baby is not in fact a piece of immortality, but rather another piece of mortality. Multiplication is not continuation. And so for day 2521 07.11.2013
Camomille’s Pleasures of the Self and of the Word
What is around and what is within … Vingt Fois Le sens de la nuit. Qui appartient à Camomille comme une félicité dans son ventre d’amoureuse d’elle et de son corps, des extases douces qui se dilatent et dilatent sous … Continue reading
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