As always, Doug, thanks for your caring responses.
Have you read Laura M. Marks, a Canadian scholar & new media arts review, who writes on haptics. Her recent book is called Touch. I like her smarts and prickliness and a kind of straight openess to everything that is not. Early in her career I suspect she was une enfant terrible, and probably a good, provocative pain in the ass for the old boys & women in the 'theory-gaze' worlds. She is particularly good on Japanese film from the early 60's, a period of which I mainly know the amazing photographers of the period ( Muryama, Fukase and Tomatsu) - all of them working with the post-War Japanese breakdown - including sexual issues of cast and power)
It's great how Canada creates these whiz women - Rachel Zolf, Lisa Robertson, and Marks among them.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
--- On Wed, 8/5/09, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Subject: Re: Non-Snap -Vincent
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Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 8:14 AM
I guess it is, Stephen.
The haptics carry the emotions they seek; a lot of loss, not just personal, there, that you've responded to with your pen....
Doug
On 4-Aug-09, at 1:38 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> I guess that's a snap of sorts!
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