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Gazing Back Into the Closet: Theorizing about Queer Women in the Workplace

By Lesley Vaage — Thursday, April 10th, 2008 (Posted in Abstracts)

… to their co-workers, subordinates and bosses. While this paper does not purport to be an exhaustive account, it intends to offer steps towards theorizing about queer women in the workplace; and hopes to raise the relevant questions that will inform further analysis into the experiences of these women. Using the Foucauldian notions of the “normalizing gaze” and …




Imagining the Diasporic Link: The Franco-Algerian Media Dialogues on the 2005 ‘Emeutes’ in France

By Irina Mihalache — Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 (Posted in Essays & Articles, X-Featured)

… and Berbers, between young and old” (Ben Jelloun, 1999, p. 85).

The Dialogic Narratives of “El Watan”
For the entire period of the French riots, El Watan covered daily the events in France, developing, similarly to the French press, a series of explanatory and analytical narratives on the emeutes. If the French media did not point fingers at the Algerian diaspora …




IP Rights and New Technologies: Pills, Pirates & Sex Dolls

By Cultural Shifts and Eliot Che — Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 (Posted in Reviews)

… Dolls

An inquiry into factors influencing Canadian policies related to pharmaceutical patents
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Jason Wenczler, Political Economy
Noise Annoys: Pirate Radio and the Distribution of Music in the Digital Age
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Jim Dooley, Political Economy
Marxxxist Alienation: Sexual Anthropomorphism of Realdolls™ and Construction of Man
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Marxxxist Alienation: Sexual Anthropomorphism of Realdolls™ and Construction of Man

By Elizabeth Record — Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 (Posted in Essays & Articles, X-Featured)

… relationships between humans, it is generally held that as long as such interactions occur between consenting adults they are “healthy.” Of course, one could speak of traditional-religious conceptions of heterosexual, monogamous and procreative sexual partnerships as being the only virtuous expression of love; however an increasing number of individuals reject this assertion, instead …




work in freefall: a deconstructive landscape painting by Holly Friesen

By Jim Larwill — Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 (Posted in Audio & Visual Studies, Reviews)

… is endlessly sold like bland boiled potatoes to the hungry in a spiritual famine. Pass the salt, and if I could only have a little cabbage broth on the side, then I would be apocalyptically happy.
The raven to one side perhaps says it all. We are doomed. The pure virgin dragon of scientific discourse crashes. Its face is dismembered human fertility. It flaps its angelic wings of material …




Questioning Boundaries: A Political Economy Conference

By Cultural Shifts, Daniel Tubb and Emma Lui — Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 (Posted in Notes & Asides)

… Dolls

An inquiry into factors influencing Canadian policies related to pharmaceutical patents
Jason Wenczler, Political Economy
Noise Annoys: Pirate Radio and the Distribution of Music in the Digital Age
Jim Dooley, Political Economy
Marxxxist Alienation: Sexual Anthropomorphism of Realdolls™ and Construction of Man
Elizabeth Record, Political Economy
North American …




Wal-Mart: The Bank

By D. T. Cochrane — Monday, January 28th, 2008 (Posted in Notes & Asides)

Although it has been met with stiff resistance in its efforts to offer banking services in the US, Wal-Mart has succeeded in opening a bank in Mexico . It plans to open 80 more by the end of 2008. Located within their stores, the banks are targetted at low-income earning households. Their early success, plus their increased lobbying spending , point to renewed efforts at entering the …




Terms of Use

By Cultural Shifts — Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 (Posted in Uncategorized)

… graphic material must be cleared with the editorial board before uploading. We are aware that these types of media are an immensely important part of culture, and thus do not discourage people from posting them. However, due to the sensitive legal nature of these media, we need to be informed before something goes up. We cannot and will not accept any images or video that contradict …




Peak oil?: Oil supply and accumulation

By D. T. Cochrane — Friday, January 4th, 2008 (Posted in Editorials & Interviews, X-Featured)

… Venezuela, the United States, Russia - are heavily involved. Its corporate players are among the world’s most powerful and profitable businesses. The goings-on within the market are of interest to every other business. Speculation is rife. Examination of recent price increases need to consider these factors and many more.
One of the pieces of evidence offered by advocates of the …




Making the Case for Corporate Social Responsibility

By David Cavett-Goodwin — Monday, December 3rd, 2007 (Posted in Essays & Articles)

… from each other, each with a distinct ethic, linked by a set of responsibilities.
The language of rights and responsibilities is, itself, both limiting and often irrelevant to the world of the practicing manager (Freeman and Liedtka, 93).

However valid these arguments may be, they have been silenced by the overwhelming majority of those in favor of CSR (NGOs, businessmen and …




International Human Rights Protection in the Citizenship Gap: The Case of Migrant Sex Workers

By Christine Hughes — Friday, November 30th, 2007 (Posted in Essays & Articles)

… industry, either by choice or necessity. Just as commodities move around the world in the age of economic globalization, sex and the women who sell it are also becoming globalized. While they may indeed succeed in earning much-needed income, many migrant sex workers (MSWs) may sacrifice their human rights entitlements based on citizenship, understood as membership in a nation-state. They …

Tags: Canada, citizenship, economy, globalization, human rights, international law, law, migration, sex workers, United Nations, women




The Gin Craze: Drink, Crime & Women in 18th Century London

By Elise Skinner — Friday, November 30th, 2007 (Posted in Essays & Articles, X-Featured)

… morality and motherhood and by limiting the economic opportunities accessible to London women. Negative female imagery is explored as a source of inspiration and tool of reformers who sought to restrict gin and female gin consumption in particular.

THE GIN CRAZE: KEY FACTS
Prior to the eighteenth century, alcohol consumption in England was for the most part restricted to ale, …




Day Tripping

By David Carson — Thursday, November 29th, 2007 (Posted in Poetry & (non-)Fiction)

… images being created are the most beautiful of all.

Comment by David Carson: … dejection. I hope that this …




On the Realism of Manuel DeLanda (and Gilles Deleuze)

By Matthew Lymburner — Saturday, November 24th, 2007 (Posted in Editorials & Interviews)

… of materiality.
This must apply to the human world as well, and therefore it is more than a little problematic to talk about these separate spheres of ‘animal’, ‘plant’, ‘geologic’ and ‘human’ as differentiated worlds (and within them, countless differentiations as well). They are deeply intertwined, contingent ’spheres’. And it is here where my point of contention …

Comment by D. T. Cochrane: … of materiality. I’m …