… few weeks between myself and a colleague of mine on the nature of ‘truth’ and reality and its extension to environmental advocacy strategies. This debate has been especially interesting, picking up from my post on Manuel DeLanda earlier this month and leading most recently to a comment, which I highly recommend reading, available here. The following is a response to that posting, along …

Tags: critical theory, Deleuze, environment, epistemology, expressivity, methodology, postmodernism, realism

… ( how we can know things ) and debates on the environment. Matt, in a post about a lecture given by Manuel DeLanda on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze argues that we cannot understand the world outside of our interpretation of it. The world, according to the blog post, can only be understood in terms of discourse rather than in terms of materiality. Matt’s argument, what I will …

Comment by D. T. Cochrane: … value calls to mind an …

Tags: critical theory, Deleuze, environment, epistemology, expressivity, postmodernism, realism

… so as to remain globally competitive. This phenomenon is best described by the term ‘globalization’. While the uses of the term reach into matters of economic (de)regulation, the overlap of business and political legislation as well as international treatises, the objective of this paper relates to globalization specifically in terms of multinational enterprises (MNE) and their growing …

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Hopping Freight Trains Across Canada
Digital Photographs
Canada, 2005. …

Comment by Lamont: … and end? And how long does a trip …

… in the animal world, and why humans concerned only with the human world must expand the scope of their interests to the the ‘natural’ world in order to more fully experience the richness of life. As DeLanda notes, we must “learn from the world itself”, in order to ensure that our “pride of being human” doesn’t prevent the deeper experiences we have when relating with our …

Comment by D. T. Cochrane: … of Deleuze in DeLanda you will be …

Tags: critical theory, Deleuze, expressivity, methodology, postmodernism

… computer discs containing names, addresses, birth dates, national insurance numbers and, in some cases, banking details of nearly half the country’s population.

Comment by Matthew Lymburner: … recent of Brown’s repeated …

Looks like the government of B.C. is going to have a public inquiry into the death of Robert Dziekanski. Dziekanski died Oct. 14 after being tasered by the RCMP at the Vancouver International Airport (video below).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHKk5qQRzL4
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Yw_XJYuVE
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Comment by erakon1: … on it, most of the editing was in …

… circles. Understood as capitalist imperialism by some, as market-based policies by others, neo-liberalism is a contested term that continues to have exceptional significance in a period of renewed globalization and transnationalism.
Aihwa Ong’s latest book, Neo-liberalism as exception, is a multifaceted exercise in expanding upon our understanding of neo-liberalism in relation to …

Comment by Daycare Grants: … the poor. I think it is time that …

… pressing and polarizing issues of our time. While debates over the balance between security and civil liberties are nothing new, Ackerman makes an innovative politico-legal contribution that has only been superficially addressed in academic and policy circles. The central proposal of the book is an ‘emergency constitution’ to limit the suppression of fundamental civil liberties after a …

Tags: books, crime, human rights, law, politics, privacy, terrorism, United States

… analyses and arguments ranging from 800 words to book length. Pieces that end up here should be organized, formatted, and meditated on, though in widely varying degrees.

Audio & Visual Studies
An area for photography, videography, music and visual arts. Some examples would be photo essays, illustrations, video documentaries or short films and original audio tracks. …

… and foremost to promote contributions in a whole range of diverse media formats, and the dialogue and debates across mediums and disciplines that result from these contributions. We want contributors to critically engage with their submissions, and equally as importantly, with each other. We envision this space as a place for people with diverse experiences to join together and express …