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And You Shall Know Them By Their Plumbing

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Jun’ichirō Tanizaki In Praise of Shadows Translated by Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker Every time I am shown to an old, dimly lit, and, I would add, impeccably clean toilet in a Nara or Kyoto temple, I am … Continue reading →

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Sometimes Smallsongs

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Francois Lachance

It happens. You enter a bookstore. Take a volume from the shelf. Browse. And are caught up by a passage. Though the aiodoi are not of space and time, it is of space and time that they sing, and it … Continue reading →

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The Body, Its Environment, Its Exercise

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Northrop Frye captured something of the imprinting that happens when good models abound. And are taken up, bodily. Now if we write in a way that we never speak, the first thing that disappears is the rhythm. It is hardly … Continue reading →

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Gone Fishing for Turnips

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Francois Lachance

The conclusion of a posting to Humanist that muses on the differences of a going towards and the being open to a coming… What do these esoteric modes of reading or translating have to do with humanities computing? They begin … Continue reading →

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Function and Field and Group

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge Translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith On the notion of function (vs structure): This is not the place to answer the general question of the statement, but the problem can be clarified: the statement is … Continue reading →

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Connotations Constellations

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Francois Lachance

If I were to create a thesaurus I would call it an “aurifodina”. A word-hoard gold mine that would contain this nugget “marcescent“. Leaves kept. Gilded. Deterred feeding. Minos-effect. And so for day 2354 24.05.2013

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Writing and Intimations of Mortality

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Robert Bringhurst The Solid Form of Language: An Essay on Writing and Meaning Gaspereau Press, 2004 The final section worth quoting in full with its carefully stacked repetitions of keywords: A script is not a language — and the classification … Continue reading →

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Vertical Virgule Veridical

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Francois Lachance

On page 97 of Picture Theory by Nicole Brossard in the 1982 edition (Montréal, Éditions Nouvelle Optique, coll. « Fiction », 1982) there is an image at the corner of the page. It renders a 3D illusion as if behind … Continue reading →

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No Place for Dullness

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Edward W. Said Humanism and Democratic Criticism p. 11 drawing on Vico For my purposes here, the core of humanism is the secular notion that the historical world is made by men and women, and not by God, and that … Continue reading →

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The Turn

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Sunil Gupta in conversation with Saleem Kidwai in Gupta’s Queer, (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2011) SK: What about gay politics in NY? SG: It had become purely gay. It was 1976, post-Stonewall and before AIDS. Everything was about hedonism and that … Continue reading →

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