Month: January 2021

• What about Now?

  Now can be a tricky thing to police, I think; it keeps changing its clothes, and each time I think I finally recognize it, I realize I’ve mistaken it for somebody else. Someone from a different time, perhaps; someone who looks a lot like a friend in another place, but who is a stranger here […]

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  January 27, 2021

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  Aeon.co, indexical term, instantaneity, John Martin Fischer, metaphysics, now, Ontology, philosophy, present time, singularity, temporal indexical, Time, University of California Riverside

• Comfort like cold porridge

  I go a lot by taste. It has usually been a fair guide to what I’m eating, but in this era of plant-based meat, I’m no longer as sure. I’m certainly in favour of diminishing my ecological footprint, and a career as a Vegan is not really in the cards, I’m afraid, but lately I’ve […]

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  January 20, 2021

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  Canadian Food Inspection Agency, CFIA, food, Food Chain Transparency, food labelling, ingredients, John G. Keogh, Meat Inspection Act, mislabelling, Safe Foods For Canadians Act, sausages, SFCR, The Jungle, theconversation.com, University of Guelph Biodiversity Institute, University of Reading, Upton Sinclair

• The rest is silence

  There’s something special about place, don’t you think? For some, it is a beautiful sight -a mountain, perhaps, or a field of flowers basking in the sun. I agree, of course -vision paints a scene- but for me, it does not capture it. Not completely. Photographs are only quiet markers of things that cannot truly […]

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  January 13, 2021

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  forests, Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, mountains, Noise, One Square Inch of Silence, Psalm 100, silence, singing, Sound, The Song of Myself, Walt Whitman

• Fake lies?

  Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about truth, but not for the reasons you might expect. Not because of the abundance of ‘fake news’ about which we seem to be constantly reminded, and not necessarily because I’ve been occasionally embarrassed in a lie, nor because of the tangled web you wove when first you practiced […]

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  January 6, 2021

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  Aeon.co, Albert Camus, assertions, authorial authority, boundary markers, David Hume, deception, edges, Emar Maier, ethics, Fake news, fiction, George Orwell, H.P. Grice, imagination, imaginative resistance, lies, literary fiction, literature, Plato, reportage, Sir Philip Sidney, speech acts, the paradox of fiction, trespassing, Truth, University of Groningen