Desire
The Liberals’ byelection sweep recalls the anecdote about the conversation between Lenin and Trotsky. According to legend, Lenin asked Trotsky, “What will happen to us if we fail?” To which Trotsky replied, “What will happen if we succeed?”
Throwing Shapes: in conversation with Mathieu Arsenault
“Instead of trying to shape or tame the digital medium to my will,” says Mathieu Arsenault, aka Seulement, “I try to shape my gesture around how the digital medium works.”
Graceland
We don’t much imagine today that people come back to life after death. But in Biblical times it happened with alarming regularity. Coming back from the dead was God’s will. If it were God’s will, who should be resurrected today?
Torching the Record: notes on Montreal’s Olympic Legacy
The new McCord Stewart exhibition tells a story of the 1976 Summer Olympics in which sport is a supporting actor in the Games’ sociocultural cast.
The Problem of Pain
Numbness is antithetical to the productivity that emotional pain potentially stimulates. Rather, it is necessary to feel emotional pain in its entirety — not to induce it, but neither to detach oneself from it — in order to make it useful.
The Goddamn Weight of Dreams
In the malfunctioning cityscape, subconscious mourning is constant when technological breakdown is ever-present. A bug in the system means that there must be a line of code missing somewhere.
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