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Iconoclastic Considerations

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Comment to Calamity Jane’s July 2, 2003 CONVENTIONS OF EKPHRASIS http://calamity.wordherders.net/archives/000422.html Don’t quite know how this one would fit into your typology…. the narrator contemplating a possible painting-to-be as a type of “projective ekphrasis” There is an example in Joyce … Continue reading →

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The Tip

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Either of tongue or finger Fingerspitzengefühl Intuition is counter-intuitive: while it appears to be quick and spontaneous, it actually takes effort, calculation, and memory. Charles Jencks. The Garden of Cosmic Speculations (London: Frances Lincoln Ltd., 2003). Akin to sprezzatura and … Continue reading →

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Treading Stupidity

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Charlotte Shane. “Anne Carson’s Splintered Brilliance: On the pleasures of poetry that deliberately defies our comprehension”. New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/139103/anne-carsons-splintered-brilliance Calling one’s self “stupid” is akin to saying “my mind doesn’t work like that.” It’s a way of recognizing the distance … Continue reading →

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Connections, directions, corrections

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Some one sent me a link to “The career advice I wish I had at 25” by Shane Rodgers. It seems to populate many management sites all over the World Wide Web. This is the one item on the list … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Sphere of Touch Typing

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Francois Lachance

I have come across a delightful book on the art of writing (Your Penmanship by Kathleen U. Ockendon) which offers a neat little analogy for academic activities and scholarship. As well it has as a swell opening chapter called “Making … Continue reading →

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Disappearing Young Men: Sister Uprising

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Einstein on the Beach (Both texts written by Mr. Samuel Johnson) OLD JUDGE : PARIS (In Original 1976 Production) When considering the best liked cities on earth, Paris looms large among them. Paris is one of the world’s greatest tourist … Continue reading →

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Erasing Erasure

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Jennifer Biddle Dot, circle, difference: Translating Central Desert paintings in Cartographies: Poststructuralism and the mapping of bodies and spaces edited by Rosalyn Diprose and Robyn Ferrell (1991) Unlike in northern Australia, where images figured historically upon more permanent materials (bark … Continue reading →

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Impaired or Wrecked

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Francois Lachance

my mind catches on a phrase “wrecked cognition” and lifts it from its context to a place of thinking about how at any time any one of us may be considered as disabled… Haryette Mullen Muse & Drudge in Recyclopedia … Continue reading →

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Towards the End – Endwards

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Repartee inhabits the footnotes in Samuel R. Delany Phallos. The prose of Phallos — even in the three extraordinary scatological chapters toward its end — is written in the past tense of most normative fiction. In order to achieve what … Continue reading →

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Crono Locomotion

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Contemplating the hypothesized state of chronesthesia Together with language, mental ‘time travel’ allows us to share our experiences and our hopes with many other people, building networks of combined knowledge that are continually growing with each generation. Science, architecture, technology, … Continue reading →

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