Playing the first 5 days of Field Guide to Memory
A week ago, I decided that I was going to play Field Guide to Memory by Jeeyon Shim and Shing Yin Khor every day, and the experience has been super enjoyable so far.
ecocriticism
The “challenge” for ecocritics is "keep[ing] one eye on the ways in which ‘nature’ is always culturally constructed, and the other on the fact that nature really exists." (Gerrard)
2021: A Year In Books
This year's categories: Favourite Supervillain Novel; Favourite Mythological Remix; Favourite Family Mythmaking; Favourite Weaving of History and Historical Fiction; Favourite Epistolary Mindfuck; and Favourite Bildungsroman! (Oh, and Favourite Nonfiction too!)
Reading Notes on Fourteen Wolves: A Rewilding Story
A graphic novel caught my eye recently, the French translation of Fourteen Wolves: A Rewilding Story by Catherine Barr and Jenni Desmond.
Drink tea and read ALL the books 2019.12.15
Split Tooth, Lettres en forêt urbaine, All Systems Red, Les brutes et la punaise, and more: there have been so many good books read this year!
Brief Assortment of Interesting Things — 12th of April 2019
Here's the round-up from between the 30th of March and the 12th of April, 2019.
Brief assortment of interesting stuff — 15th of March 2019
This week: a post-apocalyptic novel by Aliette de Bodard in the ruins of Paris, the ethics of mining trauma for literature by Lindsay Nixon, the inimitable Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom, a critical look at IWD in Québec by Émilie Nicholas in Le Devoir, and more!
Brief assortment of interesting stuff — 15th of February 2019
This week, let's look at a comic book collection of nonbinary fairy tales, a ritual on destroying your books to make art, a book that shows how feminism became a marketplace buzzword, and more...
Brief Assortment of Interesting Stuff — 1st of February 2019
This week, a critical video on Elon Musk's "Loop" by donoteat, a brilliant article on Hawaii, tourism, and decolonization by Bani Amor, and a Québecois podcast on depression and anxiety.
Reading Notes on Jere Alexander's "And The Dogs Were Silent"
In this book, through pitbulls, we catch a glimpse into the absurdity of the human-dog relationship as it exists today in settler colonial North America.
The Cyborg and Colonization: Mass Effect Andromeda Play-through Notes
> Oh, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in ’t!
The Tempest, Act 5, Scene 1, 188-191
One of my