Open Journal Montreal

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Hello everyone. I don’t like inflicting my politics on anyone, so you can ignore this note if you want, but I just wanted to let you know about my situation and how it affects all of you. I believe most of you are fairly regular CBC listeners. So no doubt you have noticed a drastic [...]

[A young girl narrates over long shot moving into a not-too-futuristic city. The shot comes up along an urban ave, like McGill College in Montreal, or maybe Bay St. in Toronto, and on the sides of all the buildings are screens like in Bill Gates' house. It's a bright, sunny day, and the hot dog [...]

In A Thousand Plateaus Deleuze and Guattari use the word for a horizontal root structure to describe power (energy) progressing through time in a binary-displacing way: A rhizome may be broken, shattered at a given spot, but it will start up again on one of its old lines, or on new lines. You can never [...]

It has been almost three weeks and I am already finding myself at home and comfortable in this little African city of Bamako. ‘Tu-es chez toi ici’ says a friendly local handing me half of his tasty orange. Familiar faces with waving hands and raised thumbs as I whizz through my neighborhood on my little [...]

I think most nights that I go out (which isn’t most nights) all I’m really looking for is the feeling of that moment of tranformation, or emergence, when enough links have been made in the crowd so that everyone knows an average of just one other person. At that point, information can move through the [...]