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!
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)
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.