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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

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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

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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

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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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