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Building and Being
Lew Welch in the conclusion of How I Read Gertrude Stein offers a picture of the artist not as a tortured soul but as a builder. And if you listen long enough you get the whole of art from her. … Continue reading
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Scarry on Beauty
First delivered as a Tanner Lecture, On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry has two parts: “On Beauty and Being Wrong” and “On Beauty and Being Fair”. The argument in the second part is etymologically driven and phenomenologically derived. … Continue reading
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Accompaniment
If the cogency of the incoherent can be compelling what is there to commend the command of coherence? The answer resides in the relation between force and the dissipation of form. What is thrown away is what is collected. Rejection … Continue reading
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Salty Passions
Peter Kline in The Everyday Genius makes a useful observation about how theory cleaves to practice. Theory often meditates between two practices or two aspects of a multi-player activity. Kline is concerned with the connection between thinking about learning and … Continue reading
Materiality of Language
One of the best examples of the materiality of language at work has been provided by Adrian Miles in a posting to the Humanist discussion list. Humanist 26.663 “digital materiality” A simple example I use with undergraduates. In a lecture … Continue reading
Speculations Chronotopological
We are infected. “retrochronal semiovirus, in which a time further in the future than the one in which we exist and choose infects the host present, introducing itself in simulacra, until it destroys all the original chronotocytes of the host … Continue reading
Connecting
Involved. Attached. Applied. Engagement is a construct involving three dimensions: behavioural (involvement); affective (personal attachment to others, such as teachers and classmates); and cognitive (application to learning). Engagement is critical because it makes a difference to academic achievement and fosters … Continue reading
Comprehending Through Creation, Collaboration and Communication
This bit on the Categories of Knowledge and Skills The achievement chart identifies four categories of knowledge and skills that are common to both the elementary and secondary panels and to all subject areas and disciplines. The categories, defined by … Continue reading
Digital Materiality
Read in the Globe and Mail Quebec is touting its cool climate, plentiful water supply, relatively cheap, clean and reliable electricity supply and attractive high-tech talent pool as reasons that make the province the ideal place for the high-heat generating, … Continue reading
Digital Virtues
The following comes from a rather lapidary text from 2001: Per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality. http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm In a way it is a meditation upon the micro-theatre of navigating cyberspace. Each tiny moment is an encounter with decisions and such … Continue reading