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Opening of William Gibson “Metrophagy: the Art and Science of Digesting Great Cities” collected in Distrust That Particular Flavor and first appeared as as a review of London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd in The Whole Earth Catalog Summer 2001. … Continue reading
More Word Associations
Like an exquisite corpse, more from the denizens of Madhouse. (Nov 16 18:54) From Yred: surprise (Nov 18 17:26) From Light: party (Nov 19 18:43) From Irc: political (Nov 23 18:17) From Yred: animal (Nov 25 21:50) From Irc: vegetable … Continue reading
Victim Blaming and Suspension of Beliefs
From “Privilege of Unknowing: Diderot’s The Nun” in Tendencies by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick A simple response to this worry would be that the deglobalizing, the pluralizing of the idea of innocence/ignorance, that we are trying to effect here, should also … Continue reading
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Abandoned To Be Retrieved
Dancer from the Dance Andrew Holleran Well, these personalities had vanished and now the house was empty. And as I wondered through, I felt a guilty pleasure I have always known in places the crowd has departed — a dormitory … Continue reading
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Adept
R. Bruce Elder The Body in Film Art Gallery of Ontario, 1989 On the “personal body” in the films of Andrew Noren The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse but the presence of these allusions to historical works of art have … Continue reading
The trolls will always be with you.
Like the poor from the New Testament pronouncement they are here to stay. While walking home, I was given to reflecting upon the favourite rhetorical moves of the troll clan. It struck me that they are similar to the preachers … Continue reading
And then she said…
The social function of gossip… Men have always detested women’s gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. In the most paranoid societies (Arab, Orthodox Jewish) the women are kept completely under wraps (or under … Continue reading
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Structure Restructured
Back in 1998, in a little note sent to a friend working on Nietzche, I quoted this excerpt from Touch by Gabriel Josipovici. The structure consists of a series of gestures in a certain order which satisfies. The structure is … Continue reading
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Mind the Gap
In her hommage to Michael Lynch (“White Glasses”) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick invokes gaps twice the opacity loss installs within ourselves and our vision, the unreconciled and irreconcilably incendiary emerges streaming through that subtractive gap, that ragged scar of meaning, regard, … Continue reading
On David and Florence
History turning to an account of reading for pathos. A statue becomes emblematic of the city. Those who are more astute, of course, brave the long lines outside the Accademia in order to see David in his authentic and inimitable … Continue reading