Open Journal Montreal

– updated with this attachment:
no one knows everything: Harold Innis and Open Source. (a pdf for now)- click the link to get to it, or go ahead and read the “abstract” or “teaser” below. be forwarned! i tried to make it read nice, but it’s still super thesisy.–
Abstract
By looking at some lesser known writings of [...]

I decided to throw one more project in the air recently and to take on putting together a book for young adults about the design experiment I was a part of last year. Though the idea had been hatching for a while, the making of it was precipitated by the upcoming Vernissage for the new [...]

Travelling while reading about nomads is strange.
I first read Bruce Chatwin’s Songlines in high school when my boyfriend at the time slipped it to me with a knowing smile. It was the kind of thing he knew I’d like.
I read chapters of The Songlines again in my first year as an MA student [...]

by Risa Dickens
In a recent post, Neil suggested that choosing “stupefying confusion” as yer axiom instead of clarity or fidelity might make for a good thought tactic. In a way this sounds like aiming low so as to not be disapointed, but this shift in expectation (which would seem to give up on successful communication [...]

I received this invite to a happening/magazine launch/conversation in a mass emailing today. This gang of arty hoodlums down at the Societe des Arts Technologiques is opening up the floor for dialogue about the murder and censorship of Zahra Kazemi. And so this has me thinking, this morning, about the layers of technological and [...]

by Risa Dickens
In my new job I call up Montreal business owners and interview them so that I can write a profile about their place. Some are highly successful, some are high-end hoping for high success, and some are struggling. All are eventually excited to be describing their baby to someone who is not trying [...]