A Piece of my MA thesis. By Risa Dickens.
Open source protects the rights of the user of information, (versus proprietary software, which protects the rights of the inventor or, more accurately, the rights of the company which finances the development and distribution of the software,) in a digital environment where that information is effectively [...]
These pictures were taken by my interns this week. They’re of some of the most beautiful graffiti in Montreal, some of which was commissioned by the city and almost all of which will be torn down during the reconstruction of the mountain this summer.
There is a sense of emptyness that remains now that we [...]
While I was growing up I remember a moment of realization I had where I understood that technology and software were our species’ way of accomplishing, over time, complex acts of coordination and accumulation.
This realization comes with two memories: one, of driving from Waterloo to my mum’s mother’s house in Toronto, and the light is [...]
Shoot the Moon has a sound that speaks right to something in me. They are like Sonic Youth but less loud, like Arcade Fire with a twist of ska, that makes them a little more laidback, Montreal, easy-going. I need to preface a review of their music by this caveat because the fact of a [...]
Read up on the history of the Salon:
THE POWER OF CONVERSATION: JEWISH WOMEN AND THEIR SALONS.
Parlor Politics:
In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government
“…without the face-to-face relationships and networks of interest created in society, the American experiment in government could not function.
Into this conundrum, writes Catherine Allgor, stepped women like [...]
