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SEE: The Potential of Place. Issue 6 Spring 2007. Profile on Natalie Jeremijenko. The purpose of Natalie’s work, it seems to me, is to render the invisible visible. But her nimbleness at drafting technology into the service of pulling away … Continue reading →

How we speak and think and act. Consciousness of oppression is not only a reaction to (fight against) oppression. It is also the whole conceptual reevaluation of the social world, its whole reorganization with new concepts, from the point of … Continue reading →

Di Brandt in Now You Care provides a note at the bottom of a poem filled with natural wonders and declares that humans are “mere grace notes” in the symphony of sound that surrounds us. Humbling attitude grounded in the … Continue reading →

Ali Smith. Girl Meets Boy She carries on for pages in a fashion that would make even Anna Livia Plurabelle blush. Then it changed into a music I’d never heard before, so new to me that it made me airborne, … Continue reading →

Rotten emails = French for spam. pourriels spam Pourriels are destined for the poubelle whose origins date back to the 19th century and the decrees of one Eugène Poubelle. And so for day 1570 01.04.2011

Sometimes I am not so sharp in recording the details of where and when I have come across some interesting tidbit. Take for example Beyond the need for the City to conform to the Provincial Policy Statement, and the desire … Continue reading →

I don’t remember what the rest of the book is about (except for that dig at a passage from William Gass On Being Blue which forces me back to re-reading the book which is now a foggy mass in my … Continue reading →

When are bodies the body’s? It’s a turn of phrase associated with Jinny in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves. I first thought there might be a topographical error in the edition I was using. Then I noticed the hook was homophonic. … Continue reading →

Deduction. The outdoor eco-art effect is inimitable, the ultimate in theatre, a modest acceptance of nature’s place in the creative process. The backdrop, be it in the city, a public space, a park, or the wilderness is effectively changing by … Continue reading →