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Fuyuki Kurasawa | 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.
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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 Irina Mihalache — March 26th, 2008
Both France and Algeria have been struggling with the memory of colonialism, adopting various strategies of collective remembering.
By Elizabeth Record — March 18th, 2008
Looking at the changing interactions between the organic and inanimate constructions of capitalism.
By mejuan — March 18th, 2008
The more things change, the more things stay the same. “Chicks” and adrenaline sport. Carving up the bull slowly, like chopping down a tree. A modern-day fairy tale about Satan’s game, told in eleven images.
By Lucas Oleniuk — January 21st, 2008
Twenty days. Twenty thousand still images. A single message. A photographer’s take on the issue of climate change, in a video created entirely by using still images.
By Matthew Lymburner — January 13th, 2008
There, I said it. Likely all who stop reading this post at the title, and who have done the same with Hayek’s book will be appalled, and will proceed to lambast me somewhere (oh wait, I’m not that important!). But it’s something that needs to …
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 Anna Torgerson — November 30th, 2007
Fair trade is a response to the instability of international commodity markets and to problems of monocultural production.
By Elmire — November 30th, 2007
Eighteenth century London was home to the gin craze, a chapter in English history that marked the unprecedented mass consumption of this newly developed spirit. This paper traces the development of this complex urban phenomenon and examines how Parliamentarians came to attribute many of the …
By Josh Massey — November 26th, 2007
It could be that attempting to define the term “Poet” is as misguided as trying to define what it is to be “Canadian”. I am frequently misguided, and I am a poet as well, so there you have two factors tricking me into the …
