Drink Tea Read Books 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!
companion species 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.
travel notes A weekend at Ker Izela We hop into the car late on Friday evening. A dog, five humans, lots of bags. Another human and two dogs will be joining us the next day up north. We drive through a night punctuated by blurred yellow lights as we get further north, the radio set to the rock station I listened to in high school.
travel notes Journey westward: looking for where the tree takes root this is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing is to be pure. What you get is
philosophy Interview with Ida Toft: Materialisms and Designing Games For Plants I approached Ida Toft a few weeks ago with the idea of doing an interview on their art and research practice. I met Ida Toft at Concordia University, where I'm
Games ∙ Les jeux The gentleman farmer, labour and land: ecocritical possibilities in Stardew Valley In my first post about Stardew Valley, I wrote about the romanticization of agriculture and rural life, dumpster diving, as well as what kind of gameplay the game encourages in its players. In this post I'll expand on some of that, as well as explore the game's treatment of labour and the land.
Games ∙ Les jeux Dumpster diving and pickling pumpkins: ecocritical possibilities in Stardew Valley My first post on the ecocritical possibilities in the video game Stardew Valley.
minecraft Presentation Notes on Big Fried Chicken Company On February 13th, 2015, at Concordia University, I presented my research working on The Big Fried Chicken Company in Minecraft for the Amplab at The Building Blocks of Life: A
minecraft La maison des poules Originally posted on the website of the Ampersand lab (&) at Concordia University at http://www.amplab.ca/2014/09/14/la-maison-des-poules/ When I built my hen house, I had
minecraft Why Big Fried Chicken Company This past week, I spent a large amount of time in a car driving around the Atlantic provinces of Canada. Most of my time was spent either driving along the
