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From Ludological Retelling to Possible Worlds
Jason Rhody Miscellany is the Largest Category Games, Fictions, Narratives (2006) http://misc.wordherders.net/?p=479 I construe the relation between game playing and story telling as one of encapsulation. The ludic drive as hypothesis forming and testing is a type of drive to … Continue reading
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Intertwingling Tingles
Ted Nelson. Dream Machines Everything is deeply intertwingled. Presentational sequences are arbitrary. Birds –> Bees –> Flowers Flowers –> Birds –> Bees Flowers –> People –> Birds Hierarchies are typically spurious. Language God Truth Man Logic Yale Boundaries of fields … Continue reading
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Anne Sofie and Her Stars
The intimacy of a first name basis. There are some people I’d like to thank and since this is my pop record I know I’m allowed: Joni, Carole, Judy C, Carly, Mama Cass Eliot, Barbra et al whose songs and … Continue reading
Erratum
Timothy Eaton Memorial Church – 230 St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto Church of the Holy Trinity – 10 Trinity Square, Toronto Chris Gudgeon mixes up Holy Trinity [near the Eaton’s Centre] with Timothy Eaton Memorial [not so near] in his … Continue reading
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Two Functions Two Topographies
Space of memory: container Space for memory: site of an exchange/dialogue And so for day 1228 24.04.2010
Time Trap Brain
Dan Lloyd. Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness. 312-313. Temporality appears to us from within […] The continuous monotonic flux implies something about conscious brains over time. […] Nor can a brain, as an organ of temporality, return to … Continue reading
Escaping Escape: retour du détour
A long quotation from (followed by a brief observation on) Deleuze and Guattari Anti-Oedipus The schizo knows how to leave: he has made departure into something as simple as being born or dying. But at the same time his journey … Continue reading
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Do you want to be my friend?
We were gossiping about a luminary looking for a companion and the conversation turned to the nature of friendship … A friend can save you from your better self. But notice that the crossing over from capability to action depends … Continue reading
Idioms: Jazz & Blues
Legitimation. Appropriation. Acculturation. Processes. Signposts. Ways. Norma Cole in To Be At Music: Essays & Talks quotes and demonstrates in her style … “A rhythm which cuts and defines another rhythm must leave room for the other rhythm to be … Continue reading
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Pedestrian Pleasures
After a period of being incommoded one turns to the papers to reconnect with the world and learns of a new footbridge. Marcus Gee in the Globe and Mail devotes a column to the opening of the footbridge that crosses … Continue reading
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