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Rinse and Repeat

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Francois Lachance

“Dear Living Person” John Russell in Blast Counterblast edited by Anthony Elms and Steve Reinke. (First appeared in Mute Feb 16, 2011) It has a put down that functions by way of repetition. In this context the curator is the … Continue reading →

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Nodes, Lists, Pants

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Leslie Scalapino “Footnoting” in The Public World / Syntactically Impermanence in her own abstract way supplies me with an epigraph to my indulging in To produce this impermanence by iterating dissimilarities until they become something else—is the opposite movement of … Continue reading →

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Process and Progress

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Francois Lachance

From the lyrics to Annie Lennox ‘Primitive’ (on the album Diva) […] For time will catch us in both hands To blow away like grains of sand Ashes to ashes rust to dust This is what becomes of us […] … Continue reading →

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Catching the Allusion

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Francois Lachance

First I came across a book with a long title: Oats, Peas, Beans & Barley Cookbook by Edyth Young Cottrell Which I later encountered as a song Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow, Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow, Can … Continue reading →

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Just a Little Off the Top

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Francois Lachance

This passage in a piece by Darren O’Donnell “Social Practice, Children and the Possibility of Friendship” in Blast Counterblast ed by Anthony Elms and Steve Reinke (Toronto: Mercer Union, 2011) reminds us of the importance of audience. This displacement of … Continue reading →

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Portals via Allegory

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Francois Lachance

One of the best explanations of allegory and its talismanic appeal to Walter Benjamin… Allegory was a preeminent aesthetic mode in Christian visual and literary art of the Middle Ages, and its primary role was one of spiritual edification. Like … Continue reading →

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Space and Place Mediated by Language

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Or at least this is what I think this is aiming at: What is the connection between belonging to a place moving through a space + vocabulary at hand                     ? That question mark hooked onto vocabulary or all that goes … Continue reading →

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Whistle While You Work

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Link this to Audre Lorde’s concept of biomythography. the lifework of every gay man has been the transformation of the loathed into the loved John Preston, “Goodbye to Sally Gerhart [1981] in Mark Blasius & Shane Phelan (eds.), We Are … Continue reading →

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Positionality Disturbed

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Rosalind Coward and John Ellis Language and Materialism On S/Z, Barthes’s study of Balzac’s Sarazine On the level of the writing itself, the identity between the signifier and the signified is disturbed. Then, the sexual opposition which is necessary for … Continue reading →

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For the Love of Teleroman

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Francois Lachance

If I were to write a soap opera … The Brash and the Beloved I think I will stick to blogging. And so for day 1851 07.01.2012

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