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Being Classy

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Good manners. If you want to stand up for closeted youth or marginalized queer populations or our oppressed cohorts overseas, do it not by demonizing the few who don’t like us, but by holding up the millions who do. I … Continue reading →

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storyscapes

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Francois Lachance

In her memoir Crazy Brave Joy Harjo remarks about the effects of television. They provide a nice capsule version of the history of media in the era before streaming and binge viewing. I turned on the television, the story box … Continue reading →

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Mudra Magic

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Witnessing a performance by Clara Venice (http://www.claravenice.com/) on the theremin made me think of how like some of the gestures required to master this difficult instrument are like mudras — the postures of the hands in meditative practice. See the … Continue reading →

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Noumenal Nominations

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Michel Serres. Variations on the Body. Metamorphoses of the enamoured body: universal love passes through sand, floral games and animal races; those in love begin this way, with the desire for things and the world, before crowning one another in … Continue reading →

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Dream Waiting

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Francois Lachance

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary. On systemic restrictions on day dreaming and reverie. One of the forms of disempowerment within 24/7 environments is the incapacitation of daydream or of any mode of absent-minded introspection … Continue reading →

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And Then Narration

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Gerald L. Bruns. “KAREN MAC CORMACK AMONG THE PAGANS”. Drawing on the work of Jean-François Lyotard [The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, trans. George Van Den Abbeele (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983)], Bruns outlines different regimes: there are multiple and … Continue reading →

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Orchestrating Closure

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Francois Lachance

April 24, 2003. Excerpt from online chat re paper Of Drugs, Messages and Time Pia: Our Staff Development program offered a workshop for the faculty on How to Say Hello and Goodbye in the semester. CaroleM: A debrief can enable … Continue reading →

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To Behold To Become

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Francois Lachance

There is a fine book by Elizabeth Ladenson called Proust’s Lesbianism which is of course about the depiction and positioning of lesbianism in La Recherche but it is also subtly an argument about a devenir lesbien. In short, the protagonist-narrator … Continue reading →

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Public Space Rethought

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Siri Agrell wrote a piece for the Globe and Mail which toured various cities around the world. It featured what human scale living could be like in an urban context. The piece is called “Rethinking public space – one day … Continue reading →

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Involution Not Equivalent to Self-Referentiality

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Francois Lachance

I have a fondness for jokes that depend on going meta that is inquiring about the frame of reference to make their point. For instance, Brian Basset in this 1996 three panel cartoon (Adam) brings a smile by having one … Continue reading →

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