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Two Takes on Terror or Resisting Being Terrorized
Sara Krulwich The people with AIDS had very little time left and most were filled with fear. Fear of the disease. Fear of coming out. When someone would actually let me take their picture, it was an act of enormous … Continue reading
Celebrating the Celebrant
Robert Priest poet. Robert Priest food lover. Robert Priest celebrant. And I picture this outflow of publications not only with images of beautifully designed books but with the concomitant imagery of beautiful celebratory meals, generously put on and attended by … Continue reading
Seduction-Memory-Writing
Reminder: memory is collective. Just what is different about face-to-face and online interaction? A posting to the Humanist Discussion List asked: How is this situation no different than what Plato worried about, and how is it different? I could repeat … Continue reading
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Faites Vos Jeux
Thinking in and through a group… Subject: Re: [Humanist] 32.177: releasing the hares Willard Interesting how the releasing hares question harbours another: to hunt or not to hunt. The question morphs into one of chasing. You cast the problem as … Continue reading
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La Durée vs La Drogue
The Psychopharmacology of Everyday Life Jamieson Webster I am indeed a Freudian psychoanalyst, that strange anachronism maligned by psychiatry for not being as scientific as medication supposedly is, by virtue of the control studies that can be done with drug … Continue reading
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What Is Remembered: The Long View
Lorna Finlayson There is no sense in which my great-uncle, who died at the Somme along with hundreds of thousands of others, gave his life for my freedom. He was cannon fodder in a needless imperial war which created fertile … Continue reading
Epistolary Erasures
We are always in the the land of lost letters… https://kfitz.info/connections/ Dear Kathleen If I may intrude on the party… and offer some disjointed observations. I see a telos in creating gateways for conversations. And I see some retrospective stances … Continue reading
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Extant: There’s the Rub
André Alexis in My Vagina has a footnote that runs across the fold to occupy the space of two pages roughly in the centre of the essay. In this extended note, Alexis repeats the claim that in Latin the names … Continue reading
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Paganizing the Image: The Work of Mourning
The comparison with Christ operates through negation. Like Christ, Goldin’s friends became her superstars, but a great many of them died, and they won’t be coming back. The photos she took are not an ersatz resurrection; they are the proof … Continue reading
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Regular Irregularities: Temporal Dislocations
My explanation: Clever – you caught the date stamp — it functions more as TARDIS – makes the blog look abandoned (each entry date is more like an accession number) – my goal is to catch up – meanwhile the … Continue reading →