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One can find various versions of Loreena McKennitt’s “The Lady of Shalott” from her 1991 album The Visit which runs at 11:05. Shorter versions are found in recordings of live concerts. Curious comparers will find that McKennitt’s version is shorter … Continue reading →

A comment on bourgeois realism? If language is generated out of conventions, those conventions are simply tactics. They are methods of allowing a reproduction of the world. They do not cause problems. They are not material. They are naturalistic. Bruce … Continue reading →

A 1914 pamphlet, “PLAYGROUNDS: One of Canada’s Great Needs” billed as a “Call to service for the children of the future” authored by J.J. Kelso, Superintendent of Neglected and Dependent Children of Ontario. The pamphlet urges the founding of playground … Continue reading →

Bruce Andrews in an interview with Jeff Derksen and Kevin Davies Explanation and prescription. My sense of praxis is prescriptive, and it’s based on the idea of explanation. The notion is that any explanation has embedded within it a particular … Continue reading →

A beacon project by Alfredo Jaar “Lights in the city” 1999 Montreal Approximately a hundred thousand watts of red lights have been installed in the Cupola of the Marché Bonsecours, a landmark monument in the old Montreal. Detonating devices have … Continue reading →

charms and amulets potions and snake oil Image spam might tell us a lot about “ideal” humans, but not by showing actual humans—quite the contrary. The models in image spam are photochopped replicas, too improved to be true. A reserve … Continue reading →

Tracy K. Smith “The Nobodies” Duende If light is both pow-wow And tango— For some reason these lines triggered a memory from a long ago viewing of Bruce Elder’s long (eight hour) film-poem Lamentations. I recall a scene with camera … Continue reading →

From the program notes from a performance of the initial section of Beowulf by Benjamin Bagby. The instrument acts as a constant point of reference, a friend and a fellow-performer, a symbol of the scop and his almost magical role … Continue reading →