Monthly Archives: February 2007

On last night’s panel talk at Gallery 1313

Carrie Young writing for BlogTo:
Last night I was at Gallery 1313 as one of six guest panellists in The Role of the Art Critic, the first roundtable discussion (well, rectangular-table discussion) as part of Gallery 1313’s ArtSPEAK series, along with Toronto art writers and critics David Balzer, Peter Goddard, Claudia McKoy, the Editor-In-Chief of [...]

Multitude

Over the past three weeks I’ve been reading Hardt & Negri’s Multitude, which I learned of by way of Darren O’Donnell’s ‘darren-in-pakistan‘ blog (speciffically this posting) and I was actually inclined to read it. With regards to Empire I’ve had the same attitude that Noam Chomsky expressed about it here:
QUESTION: It seems to me, with [...]

The Cultural Environment at the turn of the 21st Century

I. But first, let’s imagine how we might be thought of in the future.
The Modern, Nodern, Oddern, Podern, and Qodern Periods
The predominance of using the prefix ‘post’ to name a period (almost always the one in which people found themselves at the time) flourished in the first decade of the 21st Century, and as one [...]

Goodreads.ca Update

I’ve been so impressed with what Wordpress allows me to do with this blog, I applied it to Goodreads, and over the past week worked toward launching a new interface, which I did tonight. I still need to go through and complete the categorization, but that won’t take too much longer. I plan on beginning [...]

Free Expression

Last Sunday saw this year’s Superbowl, when the marketing agencies try to wow us into another enthusiastic year of American consumerism. I was in no mood for any of it; in fact, I was rather grumpy last weekend. So when I found Theodore Dalrymple’s intolerant text entitled Freedom and its Discontents in which he expresses [...]

Lists

Yesterday was my birthday. I turned

32

I felt

miserable

because

I was stressed at work
I was indecisive about going to see the Mathew Barney movie, because

I didn’t want to have to kill the time between getting off work and seeing the movie, which would have entailed
the claustrophobia of being stuck in a room, in a seat, in a sold [...]