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Auto Error Correct or Auto Correct Error
From a legal newsletter Fun with Spelling Clients and/or opposing parties may be puzzled or insulted if you accidentally recommend ‘medication’ or ‘meditation’ rather than ‘mediation’, even though the former two may be more appropriate to the case. It has … Continue reading
Boys Will Be Girls Will Be Boys
In retrospect there is a hint of gender politics in Eric Partridge’s entry on “boys will be boys”in his 1964 compilation A Book of Essential Quotations. He adds to the quotation from Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Anthony Hope‘s gloss: “Boys will be … Continue reading
Triggers, Paratexts and Interpretations
Lynne Pearce in Woman Image Text: Readings in Pre-Raphaelite Art and Literature suggests that the figure depicted in John Everett Millais’s Mariana is caught in a distinctive moment: “Mariana is presenting her body for inspection, while she gazes desirously into … Continue reading
Well-Placed Errors
Weird spellings to capture less-weird distinctions… What is exposed to computability is not the object in and of itself but one of its phases observed in a site-specific location open to a given machine-process. Back in April 2004, Adrien Miles … Continue reading
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The Leisure Problematic
On Kellogg’s Six-Hour Day (1996) by Benjamin Hunnicutt Do we live to work or work to live? The question of how important work is in our lives is central to Hunnicutt’s study of Kellogg’s daring social experiment, which began in … Continue reading
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Grotesque Appeals
It’s from a 1964 speech (The White Problem) collected in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings. And is given this configuration by Raoul Peck in the film and book, I Am Not Your Negro compiled and edited from texts by … Continue reading
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Patents
Not always driven by profit motive. ‘War,’ said I to myself, ‘is the evil genius of a time; but good food for all is a daily and a paramount necessity.’ These reflections led to a further communication with Messrs. Smith … Continue reading
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No Exit: Many Entrances
Written as if in the shadow of Derrida. Fresh air always seems freshest outside an archive. We wander down to one of the cafés on campus and sit staring over a sun-drenched lawn dotted with students out enjoying the day. … Continue reading
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Observations on School for Indians
The poet bears witness. […] We walked through the crowded class-rooms. No map of Canada or the Territories, No library or workshop, Everywhere religious scenes, Christ and Saints, Stations of the Cross, Beads hanging from nails, crucifixes, And two kinds … Continue reading
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Process is Not the Same as Flow
My Mother Was a Computer by N. Katherine Hayles. […] the world is not a collection of preexisting objects but a continuing stream of processes. Although we customarily assume that the world preexists the processes, from a perceptual point of … Continue reading
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