L O O S E

May 1999

François Lachance
scholar-at-large
has raided his files...

Offering 08

Two books. Same publisher. Same series. Big differences.

Review of books by Charles Levin and Stuart Sim on Jean Baudrillard and Jean-François Lyotard at Romanticism on the Net

Offering 07

Intellectual Itinerary

Theory meets autobiography

Offering 06

Gutterman: A Critique of His Critique
Or Poor PoMo Masculine Speculations

A look at how a "nice guy" overlooks split addressee and turns the position of overhearing into a central subject position yet claiming to espouse multiple identities

Offering 05

Cognitive Styles: Chaos and Its Stories

A short excursion into Hayles on Lyotard and on Gleick.

Offering 04

The Making of a Para-Academic

2 pages of notes for a professional developement session

Offering 03

The Written, the Archived and the Active

One page presentation on tracking costs of Computer Mediated Communication and Instruction

Offering 02

Plowing Through the Thesis

3 pages of notes to avoid writer's block
Plow is linked to works by Fadi Abou-Rihan and Geoffrey Rockwell

Offering 01

Bibliography and Theory: De Man reading Riffaterre reading Hugo and Avital Ronell's The Telephone Book

18 paragraphs of detailed and winding reading

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