Category Archives: Difference and Diversity

The line between…

Posted on October 6, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

The line between hallucinating and perceiving is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as choosing the … Continue reading →

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Moone Boy

Posted on October 5, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Martin Kenny Dalgleish Moone is the kind of young boy who’d care for an injured chaffinch – or even a dead chaffinch believing its injured- and who has a constant companion, imaginary friend, in the shape of Chris O’Dowd. Many … Continue reading →

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Highston

Posted on October 4, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Pilot for Amazon TV Show Highston taking a light-hearted look at human diversity and how we try to squeeze it into box. Highston sees and hears – “invisible friends” – people you might recognize. The pilot episode includes guest appearances from … Continue reading →

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Medicating a Prophet

Posted on October 3, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

With the kind of fervour that only attaches to false certainty we tell ourselves that which we call “psychosis” is a thing separate from anything else, a thing separate from us, a thing we understand and a thing we know … Continue reading →

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I can hear my father’s voice – Sean Penn

Posted on September 20, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

I can hear my father’s voice.
And I can hear a few other voices that have, here since, gone on somewhere. Continue reading →

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The zone of nonbeing

Posted on September 12, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Many folks these days talk of “othering”, its become a verb to other. When we other we categorise some other as “the other” – meaning other than us. and some credit the idea to Franz Fanon. But what is it … Continue reading →

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Define: how power-over works…

Posted on August 10, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

In physics, power is the capacity to do work – like lift a weight or boil water to make steam- work is something that might be exploited in some useful in some way. Human systems are far messier and … Continue reading →

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The voice you hear when you read silently – Thomas Lux

Posted on August 9, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

The Voice You hear When You Read Silently is not silent, it is a speaking- out-loud voice in your head; it is *spoken*, a voice is *saying* it as you read. It’s the writer’s words, of course, in a literary … Continue reading →

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Here comes MADx

Posted on July 13, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

First there was Big Ted and Little Ted, then BitMadTed Then came TED, TEDx and REDx Talks… Here comes MADx. See you there… We’ll be in the back room, at the downstairs bar… What’s REDx ? REDx Talks Map