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Wit and Wisdom
The alimentary is elementary in this take on chewing on it by Northrop Frye. [A]n open mind, to be sure, should be open at both ends, like the foodpipe, and have a capacity for excretion as well as intake. from … Continue reading
Cell is to Nature as Point is to Art
Wassily Kandinsky towards the end of the “line” chapter of Point and Line to Plane (translated by Howard Dearstyne and Hilla Rebay) contrasts nature and art. One must not, however, draw false conclusions from similar cases: the difference between art … Continue reading
Farms, factories and camps
Extending a comparison The industrial farm is said to have been patterned on the factory production line. In practice, it invariably looks more like a concentration camp. So concludes Wendell Berry in “The Pleasure of Eating” in Antaeus 68. And … Continue reading
Composition as Dialogue
Snipped from elsewhere, composed here. Analogies of Dialogue Perhaps by analogy one could claim that the modular elements of a film are assembled in a such a manner as to constitute a performance of dialgoue. Parts work with or against … Continue reading
Typology of Multimedia Activity
I found this passage from a 1999 posting to a discussion list of a fragment from an email message: See http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Archives/Virginia/v13/0246.html I’m concluding the online learning course for continuing studies. I’ve got a couple of additional pieces to add to … Continue reading
I Am Radio
There is a passage in Allen S. Weiss Phantasmic Radio which somehow makes me think of a typology of human communicative behaviour. It is for me very suggestive. In the passage from the preface to his book, Weiss signals the … Continue reading
Craft, Value and Economy
Wendell Berry in an essay entitled “Preserving Wildness” collected in Home Economics makes the case for what may be called an economy of attentiveness (as opposed to an economy of mere attention). The good worker loves the board before it … Continue reading
Triggers
Doris Lessing remarks in Particularly Cats Perhaps, it is some definite movement a bird makes, some particular signal, that attracts the hunter in a cat, and until that movement occurs, a cat is not involved with the bird, has no … Continue reading
Sentence Slavery
Margaret Webb. desire, high heels, red wine. understand the slavery of sentences […] breaking out of control shit like this the critics say women writers have no control over our sentences give us an inch of white space and we … Continue reading