by Michael Lesiuk | Oct 9, 2012 | Random
Look No More Backward: George Eliot and Atheism by Rohan Maitzen. She’s an English associate professor who teaches at Dalhousie and blogs at Novel Readings. Good stuff. Gooood stuff. The article includes my favourite quote from “The Natural History of...
by Michael Lesiuk | Aug 21, 2012 | Random Convolutes
Standard Žižek. Vulgar jokes combined with an encouragement to not settle for your initial, first-glance interpretation. Also, the idea that Hegel somehow thought that history’s over with him, that he comes at the end. It’s — I mean,...
by Michael Lesiuk | Aug 20, 2012 | Writing Convolutes
Two prolific writers from two different centuries agree: 10 pages a day keeps… uh, “not being prolific” away. All those I think who have lived as literary men,—working daily as literary labourers,—will agree with me that three hours a day will...
by Michael Lesiuk | Aug 17, 2012 | Random Convolutes
How do you represent what can’t be represented? (Painfully inadequate metaphors, duh.) Then, the Symbolic Real. It’s simply, for example, scientific discourse, scientific formulas, like quantum physics. Why is this Real? For a simple reason: the minimum...
by Michael Lesiuk | Aug 16, 2012 | Random Convolutes
Fonts control our minds. Everyone knows that. I feel like Roland Barthes’ Mythologies really needs a chapter on The New Yorker’s font and its connotations/myth. Did I read The New Yorker? This question had a dangerous urgency. It wasn’t any...