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Doreen Dotto

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Celebrating Couples. I like the composition on this card announcing a photography exhibition at the Photo Passage at Harbourfront. The layout nicely frames the subjects in a bed with an amazing headboard with scroll work and beneath the photo is … Continue reading →

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Vices

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Schopenhauer and Buddhism by Bhikkhu Nanajivako (Kandy, Ceylon: the Buddhist Publication Society, 1970) informs the reader of English that the German philosopher drawing on I.J. Schmidt’s Geschichte der Ostmongolen admires the Buddhists for starting from contemplation of 4 vices and … Continue reading →

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Wendell Wisdom

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Francois Lachance

http://piez.org/wendell/ This is from Wendell Piez. A little entertainment from his projects page. Tucked under the rubric “Weeds Along the Information Superhighway”. Ideas aren’t property, they’re currency: burdensome unless used, worthless until exchanged. Use and exchange. Marks of the hacker … Continue reading →

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Plural Players

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Francois Lachance

From the conclusion to Caroline Bayard’s The New Poetics in Canada and Quebec: From Concretism to Post-Modernism. And this in itself is what distances all the avant-garde (old or new, from concretism to la modernité through futurism and constructivism) from … Continue reading →

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Fully Not There

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Stephen Cain in the introduction to an issue of Open Letter dedicated to Steve McCaffery “Breakthrough Nostalgia: Reading Steve McCaffery Then and Now” (Fourteenth Series, Number 7) references Clint Burnham’s monograph Steve McCaffery and His Works (ECW, 1996) and points … Continue reading →

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Enlightened Ears

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Miriam Nichols in “Deep Convention and Radical Chance: The Two Postmodernisms of Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser” in W [dix] a Duncan Delirium published by the Kootenay School of Writing invites her reader to identify with humanism and become attuned … Continue reading →

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Asymptotes

Posted on May 16, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Reprise from my tripping over the gap between teaching and l earning: What is shown is open to imitation. What is sown without coercion is adopted without compunction. And sometimes not immediately. And sometimes not at all. It’s the difference … Continue reading →

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Structure Strictures

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Francois Lachance

That’s page 130 in Touch by Gabriel Josipovici (Yale University Press, 1996) —— and this is what I quoted: The structure consists of a series of gestures in a certain order which satisfies. The structure is never final. As soon … Continue reading →

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Appreciation Once More

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Mary Helen Kolisnyk’s interest in film theory prompted this description of my project in May ’95. the new paradigm cannot be located in a single sensory modality. it’s more abstract. at least that is what i argue in my thesis. … Continue reading →

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Encore Merci

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Found another message to one of my treasured interlocutors. This to Bridget Keegan in September of 1994. Very interesting to see this stuff in its “primitive” form before it got worked up in Sense in the chapter on “Storing and … Continue reading →

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