Open Journal Montreal

After a summer full of afternoons at the Copa, my friend Emilie and I are always left feeling we owe the other a beer. We make half-hearted attempts to balance out, but the math of our friendship is on that longish list of things we’ve decided to let go of. Now, take my financial situation [...]

by Michael (no longer) in Mali I awoke this morning to the sound of children playing, light snow falling slowly from the sky. I looked out my second story residence window onto the park next to my building and saw little kids running around in their snowsuits yelling in Norwegian. I smiled. With my jet [...]

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 [...]

By Mike and Dave A cool breeze blowing off the Bani River descends upon Mopti, softening the brutality of the mid-afternoon heat in the ancient town. Two men dressed in Tuareg attire – flowing robes and protective turbans – huddled in the shade playing a game of Wali to pass the time, engaged but silent, [...]