Co-operatives and Liberation, not necessarily in that order
In a recent post, I tried to start a deeper discussion with Milan about what it means to act ethically in these needful times with respect to climate change. I’m not sure if he meant this post as a response to my post, or as a response to the ongoing discussion on carbon ethics – […]
Read More On Carbon Ethics, Individual action, and the Value of Slow TravelEarlier this term I wrote a list of ten topics that I need to write on. These are not topics on which I have complete expertise, but they are issues on which I have opinions which ought be communicated. I thought I could write on one a day, or one every few days, and that […]
Read More On Topics for Writing: “Hot Cognition” and PlayThe Walt Disney company calls some of its imagineers “futureologists”, specifically if they work on Tommorowland or on the Future Worlds Pavilion at Epcot Centre. They are charged with visioning and representing futures. Futures are aspects of the present that project forward in time rather than space, so that we can anticipate what is to-come. […]
Read More Carbon Ethics and Future WorldsHigh Speed Rail in Canada is characterized by being in the past. It’s something that was (the Turbo, the Bombardier LRC), or never was but perhaps could one day be (the JetTrain). It’s also characterized by existing, but not really existing (many Via trains hit 100mph in normal service, but their overall schedules are hardly […]
Read More High Speed Rail in CanadaI’ve just booked passage on the Canadian to travel from Vancouver and Toronto, and I’m quite excited about the journey. Having taken Amtrak across America, it will be nice to experience the Canadian equivalent. I was able to get quite a good deal. While I was happy with taking Amtrak from Bellingham and Toronto for […]
Read More The CanadianWe find today everywhere examples of mass produced luxury. Sitting in a coffee house atop dark wood chairs, next to a floor to ceiling fireplace adorned with an exotic artwork, I am both everywhere and nowhere. Starbucks, or Second-Cup, even the new-look Macdonalds embrace an architecture of bare wood, rock and leather wingback chairs alongside […]
Read More “Chic-ness” and Cheapness – the materiality of the modern aestheticMy housemates and I, who make up the Toad Lane Vegan Cooperative, will host a conference on March 20th, 2010 entitled “Free Food! Interrogating Perception, Choice and Progress in the Liberation of our Food Supply”. What we hope to achieve by this is a kind of cultural mixing between the vegan and academic community, to […]
Read More Announcement of Food Politics ConferenceOn Remembrance Day we are expected to honour soldiers. Soldiers who made individual sacrifices, for the sake of us – so that we can partake in the value(s) they defended. This is what is asked of us “in return” for their “gift”. But is this demand without political, contemporary interest? Are we expected to value […]
Read More On Rememberance DayEmilie Mover is a singer songwriter in Toronto, Ontario. I met her in 2004 when I first moved to Toronto, and was immediately enraptured by her sad, magical songs. I was at the Tranzac for the release of her first record, Good Shake Nice Gloves. Since then she’s released a new album – also entitled […]
Read More Obscure Band Showcase: Part 3 of 3 – Emilie Mover
Only a Northern Song 