Keeping Us From Knowing How Stuff Works
The idea that we are miseducated by the mainstream media, both its “news” and its “entertainment” divisions, is a pretty common one. There are lots of different ways of filling…
Scott Neigh
Review: The Inconvenient Indian
It’s hard to come up with a substantive review when you don’t have much to say that’s critical, even constructively critical, about the book in question. So this review will…
Review: Warlords
On a certain level, I enjoyed reading this book. But it also embodies many ways of relating to history that I find quite objectionable. Written by a well-known Canadian military…
Review: Community Organizing
When it comes to working to change the world, I think there is absolutely nothing inconsistent about combining the feeling that you really have no idea how to go about…
Review: The Motion of Light in Water
I don’t think I’ve ever read any of Samuel Delany’s science fiction. I’ve known his name as a major author of the genre since I
What Does This Article Tell Us About "Canada"?
Today, I want to do an experiment. Back in January, I wrote a post beginning the work of thinking through what it means to write (about) “Canada” in some of…
Drowning in Information, Thirsting for Knowledge (About Movements)
It’s no great novelty to observe that anyone today with the resources and inclination to own the right kind of cellphone can instantly access more information than was available to,…
Review: The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Surveillance
This will be a little review of a little book. It is a useful resource — part of a series of small, focused No-Nonsense Guides put out by Toronto publisher…
Canadian Social Change Podcast, Six Weeks In
Six weeks ago, I announced the launch of a new radio/podcasting project called Talking Radical Radio. It’s a weekly, half-hour show that broadcasts in-depth interviews with people involved in a…
Other Pieces of Writing
Here is a list of other work from the last number of years that doesn’t fall into the categories of online journalism for The Media Co-op since September 2012; presentations,…
Recent Presentations, Talks, and Workshops
The following is a listing of presentations, talks, and workshops given for various purposes in the last several years. If you are interested in having me do one of them,…
Reluctant Promotions; Or, Informal Research on the Canadian Academy
Over the course of a recent fortnight, I used any time not otherwise committed to engage in a mind-numbing and potentially pointless task: I have gone through the web sites…
Review: Warrior Nation
The idea that the well-funded and aggressively waged campaign by the Harper government, important state institutions like the military, their supposedly-but-not-really independent extensions into the population like the Legion, many…
Review: The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Surveillance
This will be a little review of a little book. It is a useful resource — part of a series of small, focused No-Nonsense Guides put out by Toronto publisher…
Review: Moving Politics
When I started reframing some of my prior preoccupations as, in part, an interest in how emotion and other feelings in the body are intertwined with/produced by/produce the social world,…
*Talking Radical Radio* Has Launched!
I am thrilled to announce the launch of my new broadcasting/podcasting project, Talking Radical Radio. This weekly, half-hour show brings you grassroots voices from across Canada. It uses in-depth interviews…
Announcing Takling Radical Radio!
I am thrilled to announce the launch of my new broadcasting/podcasting project, Talking Radical Radio. This weekly, half-hour show brings you grassroots voices from across Canada. It uses in-depth interviews…
The Missing and Murdered, Willful Obliviousness, and "Everyday Life"
I happened to be in Ottawa last week. While I was there, I attended the now-annual action on February 14 on Parliament Hill remembering and calling for justice for the…
Movements, Emotions, and the Challenges of Writing About Them
Back in December, I wrote a piece beginning to think through how what we feel in our bodies — the feeling in our gut, our affect, our emotion — is…
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and Misogyny, Past and Present
Warning: Spoilers below for Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters The place to start in talking about this movie as a cultural artefact is to note that while there is some…