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Here’s the image: where’s the tale?

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Francois Lachance

“The Little Mermaid” She appears on the cover of Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales. She is the product of the imagination of a 6 year old in Sweden. She appears to be missing the ubiquitous tail. But don’t forget that … Continue reading →

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Audio Accompaniment

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Francois Lachance

What is the best music to have in the background while reading Virginia Woolf’s The Waves? Thursday Afternoon by Brian Eno — at 61 minutes it’s suitable for the long duration of an immersion into the novel. “We make music … Continue reading →

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Recursive Remarks on the Recursive

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Francois Lachance

The interpolated is not the recursive. Faas: Is there any modern music which you feel moves in directions you follow in your poetry? Creeley: Well, sure, Cage is fascinating to me, for example. I’ve been fascinated by re-qualifications of senses … Continue reading →

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List Power

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Jan Zita Grover would move from San Francisco to Minnesota and produce a meditation upon landscape and grieving … North Enough: AIDS and Other Clear-Cuts. But before that migration, she contributed a review of the discursive counters set down by … Continue reading →

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Fire & Darkness

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Herb Nabigon and Anne-Marie Mawhiney “Aboriginal Theory: A Cree Medicine Wheel Guide for Healing First Nations” in Turner Social Worker Treatment 4th Edition. Cree elders teach that fire is symbolized in the center circle, opposite the dark side of not … Continue reading →

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The Third Panel

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Francois Lachance

A colleague of mine was given a cartoon with two panels and posted it in her workspace. It was from Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes Panel One CALVIN: If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll … Continue reading →

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Gopnik on James and Proust

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Proceeding by contrast, one after another and back again. Proust believes in evocations; James in implications. Proust is a confident generalizer, seeking on every page the rules of love, memory, and life. James is a simpler fact-seeker, registering in each … Continue reading →

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Unclipping Oliver

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Francois Lachance

It’s on the jacket as a blurb. It appears in callouts. My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have … Continue reading →

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Pullulating Praxes

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Hito Steyerl “In Defense of the Poor Image” collected in The Wretched of the Screen from e-flux journal #10 11/2009. She leads us to recognize a tension in the distribution systems at play. The circulation of poor images feeds into … Continue reading →

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Charting Cartographies, Tracking Sounds

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Dionne Brand In Another Place, Not Here Knopf, 1996, page 117 I first noted this passage for my friend Marlene Goldman who was exploring women and mapping and working on what became Paths of desire: Images of exploration and mapping … Continue reading →

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