Category: Canadiana
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unexpected encounters #10: the arrival of modernity
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalized the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. Karl Marx, Capital,…
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unexpected encounters #6: exit
The error of the Surrealist militants was to imagine the surreal to be something universal, that is, a matter of psychology, whereas it turns out to be what is most local, ethnic, class-bound, dated … Believing that the images they sought came from the unconscious, whose contents they assumed as loyal Freudians to be timeless…
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unexpected encounters #5: tags
Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing. Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author” Likely the tagging went like this. (1)…
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unexpected encounters #4: winter
The western portion of the railway (built 1881-1885) was designed to link British Columbia with the rest of the country and improve trade and commerce between Eastern and Western Canada. Andrew Onderdonk, head contractor of the CPR, promised that he would hire white workers for the project … almost immediately, however, many of the white…
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cafés #1
broadly defined, to include food courts, diners, hawker stalls, food trucks, and street food establishments of all kinds … New York, January 2015 Johor Bahru, February 2016 Siem Reap, February 2016 Hanoi, February 2016 #1–4 Hanoi #5–6 Saigon February 2016 Calgary, December 2016
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fall at the lake
… and so in the fall we headed back to the Rocky Mountains, this time to explore the much-hyped Okanagan valley. Due to the smoke from raging wildfires, we didn’t see the sun for a week. These were the views. It wasn’t bikini weather. All photographs taken in and around Kelowna and Penticton in September…
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spring at the lake
Spring in Canada is the promise of a romantic evening that starts with being kicked squarely in the nuts. Spring in Canada is nature’s broken promise. We’re promised flowers and beauty and we get hungover winter. Spring in Canada is a lie. Canada has four seasons alright. Summer, fall, winter and betrayal. Canadian comedian Brittlestar,…
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