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A Fresh Take on the Cliché

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Francois Lachance

“Do you know what a cliche is? It’s a story so fine and thrilling that it’s grown old in its hopeful retelling.” From French Exit by Patrick DeWitt delivered with impeccable panache by Michelle Pfeiffer in the film. And so … Continue reading →

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A Sense of Reaching Out

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Hervé GuibertÀ l’ami qui ne m’a pas sauvé la vie About the baths in San Francisco at a certain time in history… Cette menace qui flotte a créé de nouvelles complicités, de nouvelles tendresses, de nouvelles solidarités. Avant on n’échangeaient … Continue reading →

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Thinking Through Actions and Images

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Lev ManovichSoftware Takes Command p. 97-98 According to Kay, the key step for him and his group was to start thinking about computers as a medium for learning, experimentation, and artistic expression which can be used not just by adults … Continue reading →

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Inside and Outside

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Francois Lachance

R. Murray SchaferThe Tuning of the World [T]he string quartet and urban pandemonium are historically contemporaneous. A study in contrasts. And so for day 308119.05.2015

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The Unsaid But Not Unfelt

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Nnedi OkoraforBinti: The Night Masquerade A most delightfully understated curtain drop: I kissed him on the neck and soon found my way to his lips. We forgot ourselves for a while. End of chapter. And so for day 307513.05.2015

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Love A Tautology

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Louise M. Rosenblatt“The Poem as Event”The Reader, the Text, the Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work Language is a socially generated and socially generative phenomenon. Replace “generation” with “degeneration” to generate an entropic view. And so for day … Continue reading →

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Circling a Syntagm

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Jan Rune Holmevik & Cynthia HaynesMOOniversity To participate, you write. To write, you think. To think, you learn. And implied that learning is a product of participation. And so for day 307311.05.2015

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Alter Natives Alert

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Francois Lachance

José Esteban MuñozCruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity The present must be known in relation to the alternative temporal and spatial maps provided by a perception of past and future affective worlds. Look both ways before plunging… … Continue reading →

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Act and Target

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Francois Lachance

McKenzie Wark “Battle (on Rez)” Gamer Theory Paragraph [127] The brightly colored shapes that flare at you may look vaguely menacing or brightly friendly. The whole thing is meant to simulate the experience of a nightclub more than a war. … Continue reading →

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That Spot in the Venn Diagram

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Sometimes a single circle is a place with power. Makes me think that Venn diagrams do not take into account the fishbowl effect i.e. there are people watching. You may be in a circle of one but observed by others … Continue reading →

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