Hi fellow Distant Readers—and Others, Here are some clips that I will discuss during my presentation, so you can have a peek at them if you wish. I will show them during class, so you don’t need to watch them right away. Now just to make my presentation sound mysterious and be sightly more engaging, Read More
Perhaps one of the best ways to visualize the concepts of articulation and assemblage from for this week’s seminar, ‘Drawing Things Together,’ is the process of learning: by making associations and parallels between complex elements and familiar and/or simpler concepts, we are crafting and superimposing patterns that enable us to understand what appears to be Read More
Probe for October 10 I like to think of my body as a machine; not the hard-edged, overdetermined object that first comes to mind, but a flexible, plastic machine with moving, interchangeable parts that can be exchanged and linked together in multiple different ways. I like this image because it helps me to get over Read More
Distant Reading Probe. Presenting on Oct 10th. When I tell people in North America that I research Chinese shadow puppetry, 99.5% of the time I get one of three reactions: 60% of them say, “You mean like the Jim Henson’s, the Muppets? 27.5% of them say, “You mean like Being John Malkovich?” 12% Read More
Introduction Foucault showed the philosophical and historical value of research about the anomaly. He taught the importance to pay attention on the marginalized. He pointed out the analysis of madness and prisons. Also he insisted about the relevance of studying the infamous men. The French philosopher considered (1979) that to rediscover the splendor of these Read More
How do relative beginnings and surface relations help structure statements? In turn, how do these statements dictate the rules that structure the production of texts, objects and discourses? Cap Badge and Rulebook My research on the contributions of non-Irish people to the Irish traditional music soundscape in Montreal has led me to reflect on Read More
The above picture is a detail of a collage currently on exhibition at the Darling Foundry and is part of Le Mois de la photo à Montréal. The artist transformed and assembled close to one thousand images taken from a photo-sharing website. Sunset Portraits is a large, yet ordered and neat collage. The pictures are Read More
J. R. Carpenter is an artist/author who has created several fascinating, interactive websites to showcase her work. Many of her themes deal with the city, living in it, interacting with it and with the people who surround her. Her site encourages the reader to engage with her work by reading her poems, and by clicking Read More
GAZETTE CARTOON Pascal, August 29, 2013 Newspapers are a joy to read, and the resulting dirty fingertips, blackened by the ink that bleeds off the newsprint, simply adds to the experience. The newspaper is the place where one can find editorial cartoons, among many other things. What other art form can take such a fearful Read More