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Downtime and the Muscle of Attention

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Via Kathleen Fitzpatrick Engage. Disengage. Repeat. Ferris Jabr “You need more downtime than you think” Moments of respite may even be necessary to keep one’s moral compass in working order and maintain a sense of self. [our emphasis] https://www.salon.com/2013/10/16/your_brain_needs_more_downtime_than_it_thinks_partner/ Feel … Continue reading →

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Whimp Out

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Dear Diary, Saw Wainwright’s and McIvor’s Hadrian. A disappointment. Sabina’s aria in Act II was the best part. The ending backed off a possible naming of the gendered nature of Hadrian’s love for another man. We were treated to a … Continue reading →

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Post Precariat

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Francois Lachance

A World Without Work from The Atlantic Derek Thompson draws on Benjamin Hunnicutt. The post-work proponents acknowledge that, even in the best post-work scenarios, pride and jealousy will persevere, because reputation will always be scarce, even in an economy of … Continue reading →

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Waves

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Francois Lachance

These Waves [T]he inner narrative of Phallos ends with Neoptolomus’s rejection of the moral conflations of organized religion, and leaves Neoptolomus and his partner Nivek contemplating the Heraclitean flux of the universe, the certainty of loss, and the utter unknowability … Continue reading →

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Portrait of a Generous Genius

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Robert Reid-Pharr in the afterward to Samuel R. Delany’s Phallos (2013) One of the clearest markers of genius, one of the signs that a creative intellectual has unveiled some mode of thought or action that is at once elegant, productive, … Continue reading →

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Body as Technology

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Quill Christie-Peters in a posting at Tea and Bannock posits a decolonizing relationship with the body that taps into connection with ancestors. She likens the body to a technology. My body, you have always been the ceremony to transform pain … Continue reading →

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Mindful Mindworks

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Antonin Artaud “Le théâtre et la peste” Le théâtre et son double sets up a brilliant parallel between the brain and lungs. La seconde remarque est que les deux seuls organes réellement atteints et lésés par la peste : le … Continue reading →

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You Them Him

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson This Accident of Being Lost “Circles Upon Circles” A lyrical moment reined in by reality check… I see a couple approaching you, and I hang back and wait. I look out onto Ball Lake and disappear the … Continue reading →

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Routineless Ritual

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Aspen Art Museum Educator Notes Ritual December 15, 2017–November 25, 2018 https://cdn.filepicker.io/api/file/wp6uIVWNTO7p31c8yO0B? The Educator Notes list a series of probing questions. What attracted my attention was the embedding of one particular line of inquiry in this set: the difference between … Continue reading →

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Affinities Infinities Protestations

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Two resistances. Ronald Johnson’s last line in ARK 88 is “flying the marble kite” which I am prone to mis-remember as “flying the marble flag” — a form of protest. Tom Crewe reviewing a number of books about AIDS (and … Continue reading →

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