From 14 August 2005, Journal:
For a while now I’ve been thinking of something I read when I was following Babylon 5 back in the mid-90s. JMS had written of how formality arises in a post war period. Spent the early afternoon trying to track this down, and came up with the following messages. I think [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Mad Men?
23 April 2009 – 10:21 pm
May 1992: A Comparison btwn the Irish and the Russians
20 April 2009 – 11:18 pm
I found a paper from Grade 11 History yesterday. This evening I typed it up. I’ve just finished reading Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia and I’d seen his Travesties last month, so this was a nice coincidental find and refresher. If you had asked me on Saturday about the Irish Revolution I described 17 [...]
Obscure television programs
14 April 2009 – 7:04 pm
…that have influenced my thinking.
Century City (2004)
My Life and Times (1991)
When I couldn’t remember the title of My Life and Times I did a search for Helen Hunt. I also remember her from her two episodes of Highway to Heaven in 1985 when her character was dying of cancer.
Then she got famous on a sitcom [...]
The messenger for the message | JRS part 2, from “Unconscious Civilization”
11 April 2009 – 4:55 pm
[p.57]
Harold Innis, the first and still the most piercing philosophyer of communications wrote a great deal about the problem of the written or what George Steiner calls “the decay into writing”.
The deeper we go into the written, the deeper we go into mistaking the snake for the apple – the messenger for the message. I’ve [...]
Consciousness | JRS part 1, from “Unconscious Civilization”
11 April 2009 – 4:27 pm
[p.56]
Of course, misinterpretation or inadvertent interpretation is the great fear of writers who have any sense of the real world into which their language flows. Perhaps that is why so many of the key thinkers – let me call them the conscious thinkers – have feared the written word and expressed themselves through the oral. [...]
Cory Arcangel @ Images Festival
10 April 2009 – 9:05 pm
PERFORMANCE
FRI 10 APR 2009 7:00PM – 8:00PM @ THEATRE CENTRE
Live 5: Art Since 1960 (According to the Internet)
Hanne Mugaas & Cory Arcangel
How is the internet changing our perception of art? In its indiscriminate cataloguing and non-hegemonic participation, the internet presents an idiosyncratic account of art since 1960. The democratic and self-regulating mechanisms of the internet [...]
Did I make enough coffee?
4 April 2009 – 12:12 pm
Actually, there’s a funny story behind this. Allow me to tell you about it some time.