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Not Stopping
From Audre Lorde The Cancer Journals Castaneda talks of living with death as your guide, that sharp awareness engendered by the full possibility of any given chance and moment. For me, that means being — not ready for death — … Continue reading
Lists and Curating
Aldous Huxley at the beginning of Heaven and Hell argues for the work of gathering: However lowly, the work of the collector must be done, before we can proceed to the higher scientific tasks of classification, analysis, experiment and theory … Continue reading
Cross-Referencing the Competition
David Trinidad has a section near the end of “Essay with Moveable Parts” (collected in Plasticville) which converts the author into a doll which in a piece devoted to commenting on collections of Barbies and Troll Dolls is not surprising … Continue reading
Elevator Speech
This is a a snapshot of the type of work I do in my day job in the civil service and in the domain of relationship management and partnership development. The what: Sustaining Social Capital Connecting People for Knowledge Exchange … Continue reading
Honour Roll
Poets mentioned by Richard Howard in Paris Review (Spring 2004, No. 169) interview. Muriel Rukeyser Amy Clampitt May Swenson Marie Ponsot Jane Cooper Mona Van Duyn Pattiann Rogers Madeleine Defrees The listing itself appears almost as a Homeric catalogue of … Continue reading
Etiquette for Book Lovers and Others
Three things you should say to a writer: Thank you (for reading this evening, for producing this book) It made me think. (It moved me). [NOT it reminded me of my own memory or experience.] All the best with your … Continue reading
5en5e5
A hand for memory… Mapped to the hand according to distance from object of perception (length of digit as bar in graph) thumb = touch index = smell middle = sight ring = hearing pinky = taste we depart from … Continue reading
Typologies and trajectories
There are connected but different ways to approach discussing the effects of media, ways that make explicit as possible what media are: media as prop media as stage media as puppet Relays for fetish, space and mask. Note the order: … Continue reading
Enumeration
The most magical moment for me in The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter is not the errant-running cat nor the kind helpful mice. It is the description of the result of the tailor’s labours. It must be the snow … Continue reading