(i asked the editors for a piece of writing from them and an image or two and this is what neil sent me. if you get lost during neil’s bashful mini bio, skip ahead to the quote he chose to include. the juxtaposition of ideas made me smile, maybe it’ll give you a buzz too. [...]
christian allan bertelsen BA, communication studies, concordia university MA, media studies, concordia university identity politics – discourse – deconstruction – semiotics – psychoanalysis – feminism – spatial analysis as it stands thus far, i am open’s only yellowknife correspondent/editor. the research that i am currently carrying on with addresses questions of identity constitution and social [...]
Sayulita by MK Shortly after my return to my working vacation, Eugenie rolled into port with the J 120 and a bunch of younger, tan, happy students who had been aboard since Cabo. She had spent a month and a half with students on the boat sailing all the way down much of the coast [...]
by Neil Balan A few snippets, assembled in juxtaposition, about our intersections with “energy” and “environment”, those categories we tend to compartmentalize as if they were external and container-like things (much like our thinking about “culture”) that we periodically inhabit and fill with temporary purpose and meaning. In feigning autonomy and control in relation to [...]
It is the Gringos Who Bring the Sickness Here by MK After my morning session on the last day my health started to deteriorate rapidly. Nausea. Cramps. Some fever. Finally, a tingling sensation in my arms, legs, and face, as if I had slept on them. I started to lose feeling in my appendages. I [...]
I was greeted by one of the few other surfers who had found this place with “Welcome to surf jail”. I didn´t know what that meant and didn´t care since the sun was going down and I wanted to get wet. After stringing up my hammock under a palapa and leaving my valuables with a [...]
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