February 2012
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Quest for Hallucination.
For Raymond Bellour, considering the difference between the film and the photograph requires speculating on their relationship to marking time. Bellour speaks of Barthes’ consideration of the difference between our investment in photographic and cinematic time, “On one side there is movement, the present, presence, on the other immobility, the past, a certain absence. On one side, the consent of...
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Limitless, distance, distinct, collapsed.
I think about wandering in a fog, and how different things would seem there. Known things, a beach, a fence, a path, a puddle may not be as permanent or solid as I have come to believe. I barely know my own geography. I am a stranger in the dark. “Soon, if we do not know where we are going, we no longer know where we are.”1 Objects have become obscured, the horizon line melts away, there is no...
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Words for food
Talking to friends, our parents had euphemisms for the nights when we had little to eat, and the parent wouldn’t or couldn’t cook. F’s parents called it “scratch” K’s “catch and kill’ my mum “bread and grabbit”. Basically, there may have been one staple (maybe) and you could scrounge up the rest, without supervision or regard.
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Thesis!
I got my draft back from supervisor. She had about 5 changes, and said it was basically perfect. I AM SO GLAD I DID IT. Cleaning up the referencing took a whole day. This is very good news that is very welcome.
Pub with friends this afternoon, thesis celebration, though also a nice way to spend a very hot and humid Sunday. I am sweating from polishing my shoes!
I finished my thesis
Sometimes looking at it I cant even fathom what I wrote. My year now is waiting for my work redundancy, which will be about 30k, so I can finally go to Canada and find myself somewhere. And pay my debts. I got police check back. It says I have no criminal record. The thing is I was never caught. Crimes: Arson, break and enter, fraud. (This is a joke!)
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