Editorials & Interviews
Peak oil?: Oil supply and accumulation
D. T. Cochrane | Although a peak and decline in oil production is a geological certainty, we should question whether it is actually occurring right now. The supply of oil within the global market depends on much more than the geological realities of production.
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By Fuyuki Kurasawa and Cultural Shifts — April 1st, 2008
A public lecture on the visual representation of distant suffering in various parts of the world, and its implications for the production of otherness and vulnerability - this video is part of the Institute of Political Economy lecture series.
By Matthew Lymburner — March 18th, 2008
At the risk of revealing my obsession with the presidential primary season in the U.S., I’d like to draw attention to the collapse of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
By Eliot Che — March 5th, 2008
Looking at some of the issues behind the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey results.
By Matthew Lymburner — January 13th, 2008
Listening to Gerald Frug talk about the concept of rule of law in relation to cities reminded me just how manipulative elites can be. Frug, a distinguished Harvard law professor, is concerned with the deconstruction of the idea of the rule of law as it …
By mejuan — January 8th, 2008
I was gonna keep quiet about this for a long while… I wanted to see if it was possible to find mass radical, exciting changes with in Graffiti. Today I broke down and decided to offer up some of the stuff that I’ve been doing …
By D. T. Cochrane — January 8th, 2008
On January 8, the Toronto Star featured on its editorial page a commentary by Joseph Stiglitz. The former chief economist of the World Bank is vaguely predicting stagflation - stagnation plus inflation - and expressing his concern about how this will affect workers and …
By D. T. Cochrane — January 4th, 2008
Although a peak and decline in oil production is a geological certainty, we should question whether it is actually occurring right now. The supply of oil within the global market depends on much more than the geological realities of production.
By Cultural Shifts — December 1st, 2007
Courtesy of OSDir
Richard Stallman is one of the founders of the Free Software Movement and lead developer of the GNU Operating System. His book is ‘Free Software, Free Society’.
JP: Can you first of all explain the “Free Software Movement’.
RMS: The basic idea of …
By Matthew Lymburner — November 24th, 2007
A debate has been brewing over the last few weeks between myself and a colleague of mine on the nature of ‘truth’ and reality and its extension to environmental advocacy strategies. This debate has been especially interesting, picking up from my post on Manuel …
By Eliot Che — November 24th, 2007
Recent, separate discussions with Elise and Matt prompted me to think a bit more about epistemology (how we can know things) and debates on the environment. Matt, in a post about a lecture given by Manuel DeLanda on the philosophy …
By Matthew Lymburner — November 24th, 2007
Manuel DeLanda has often spoke at the European Graduate School as part of the Gilles Deleuze chair he holds there. The EGS publishes many of its lectures online, and a 2007 lecture DeLanda gave there dealing with Chapter 3 of Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand …
