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In a previous posting, Re-creased Readings, I asked if one could not “map construction onto technology, collaboration onto body and communication on mimesis” and now I am reminded of the three types of mimesis proposed by Paul Ricoeur in Time … Continue reading →

Diane Gossen in “Restitution: a way back to learning and understanding through self-respect” in Aboriginal Times (May June 2004) remarks If you ask elders to comment on a community the worst thing they would say is that the people are … Continue reading →

The spirit of Rabelais lives close by … I once signalled this passage to a colleague hinting at some parallels with Monique Wittig Les Guérillères. The multinational Catholic army was in first-class shape. Those holy week preachers had the vigour … Continue reading →

The 2004 Nonesuch CD notes of the 2002 recording of John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls reproduces a 2003 Atlantic Monthly essay by David Schiff which concludes thus: In the months that followed the catastrophe, 9/11 became a source … Continue reading →

In reading the mass of notes and musings that make up The Anti-Oedipus Papers by Félix Guattari, I come to a clearing where it begins to make sense (which is of course in Guattari’s world a way station and not … Continue reading →

Michael Cole. “Alexander Romanovich Luira: Cultural Psychologist” (pp. 11-28) in Contemporary Neuropsychology and the Legacy of Luria. Piaget had earlier stimulated interest in the way small children seem to talk to themselves when playing alongside other children, suggesting that this … Continue reading →

Alberto Manguel in his introduction (dateline of Toronto, 1992) to the anthology The Gates of Paradise is magnanimous in his praise for what has survived and almost mystical in his vision. Confronted with the task of making art out of … Continue reading →

I am taken by the generosity of spirit that inhabits this account. Here, it seems to me, is the key to Luria’s early enthusiasm for psychoanalysis, for Freud; here, too, the permanent heuristic effect of Freud on his thought, whatever … Continue reading →

Paul Goodman concludes “Counter-Forces for a Decent Society” the second of his 1966 Massey lectures (collected under the title the Moral Ambiguity of America) with a description of the radical youth of the time. It is a description extended to … Continue reading →