Against Policing: A First Critical Conversation in Sudbury
SUDBURY, ON — There is a power and
Scott Neigh
Writing the Connection Between the Big Bad World and Everyday Life
From that moment as an undergraduate university student when I first allowed my childhood dream of being a writer to reawaken, it has been clear that what I want to…
Review: Research is Ceremony
This book is the latest in my recent spate of reading meant to help me think through how to know and write the world through encounter, relation, and movement. It…
Review: The Radical Imagination
I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing the authors of this book at the Peoples’ Social Forum that happened this past August in Ottawa. I had already read and…
Review: Entre Nous: Thinking-of-the-Other
For reasons explained in the first couple of paragraphs of this post, one broad category of books I’m reading at the moment is those that enact or analyze ways of…
The Ottawa shootings and "the race to innocence"
There’s this phrase that scholar Sherene Razack has used that I’ve been thinking about: “the race to innocence.” I’ve been thinking about it as I’ve watched the reactions to the…
Review: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Before I talk about this book, I want to talk a little bit more than I usually do about why and how I read it. So. A couple of years…
Review: The Winter We Danced
I’m not sure I have a lot to say about this important book beyond giving it an emphatic thumbs-up. It is a collection of dozens of short pieces by dozens…
Review: Therapeutic Nations
This fascinating book brings together indigenous feminism, Foucault, and affect theory. As book-as-object it may not be the most easily accessible in the world — it’s from a US-based university…
Community Radio Resurgent in Sudbury
The following is my latest piece of grassroots journalism for the Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op. Check out the full story here. There was a period in the not…
To the ‘progressive mainstream’, re. the police
In this post, I want to address a certain subset of people who have progressive politics of one sort or another, and I want to make one fairly narrow point…
Rob Ford, Homophobia, Austerity, and the Social Organization of Attention and Affect
I am ashamed to admit it, but I am about to subject any readers who dare to a post that contains the words “Rob” and “Ford” in close proximity. My…
On writing, new phases, and being blocked
I’m not used to feeling blocked, as a writer. It’s not that I find writing always and only easy — sometimes I’m fast, sometimes I’m slow; sometimes it is joyous,…
Review: New Materialisms
It will come as no surprise to anyone who regularly reads this blog that I read some pretty dense nonfiction for fun. Oh, I’m no “theoryhead” — those people who…
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Review: Military Workfare
After what I had already read, I didn’t really expect to find work like this, especially in the Canadian context. It is history — well, social and historical geography, really…
Review: Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power
It’s not a new question: How can we talk about the working of the social world such that we don’t reinforce the dominant rupturing of what is actually
Review: Lighting the Eighth Fire
This book is a collection of essays mostly by young indigenous scholars from nations across Turtle Island. They draw from and contribute to a particular vision of resurgence and decolonization.…
Review: Education as Enforcement
The different things brought together by this book feel variously useful and a little strange, but the final mixture, for all that it has moments that are less engaged
Tighter security at Sudbury city hall: More ominous than you thought
This past week, Sudbury city hall announced new security measures. The chatter that I have seen about these changes on social media make the very reasonable points that they are…