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A Website of Political and Cultural Critique, from Canada to the World.

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    • Star Wars: The Force Awakens & Perpetual War
    • Fragmentation and Stalemate: Speculating on Conflict
    • Can’t You See This Is (Still) the Land of Confusion?
    • Unbinding the Gag: The Lessons of J.M. Coetzee’s Magistrate
    • The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show, Part 4: Rulepole
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Visions of Utopia

All is Not Lost

Searching For Hope After Trump’s Victory.

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The False Commons: A Blue-Bottled World in Palo Alto

What Can the Culture of Silicon Valley Not See?

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The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show, Part 4: Rulepole

Part 4 of Sean Callaghan’s ongoing flash-fiction serial about what happens after the zombie apocalypse.

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The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show, Part 2. Memento.

The next installment in Sean Callaghan’s ongoing zombie flash fiction serial.

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The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show, Part I. Fly-boy.

Sean Callaghan writes the first flash zombie fiction installment in his ongoing series, “The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show.”

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After the Zombie Apocalypse, After Modernity

In which Sean Callaghan ruminates on the political unconscious of The Walking Dead, on what it means to have hope during a zombie apocalypse, and where we go after the dust has settled on all our dead undead.

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For Lowetide

How a family man from Alberta became a cultural and literary icon, turning sports blogging into a nuanced and deeply moving art form.

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Why Do Politicians Seem So Fake?

By Mark McConaghy

As we approach the end of the Ontario provincial election, one would be forgiven for wondering just why it is that so many politicians come off as so profoundly disingenuous. Why can’t they seem even somewhat genuine to us?

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The Urgency of the Unknown Future

By Mark McConaghy

How can we move beyond all of our petty sorrows and vulnerabilities to gain a truly meaningful form of social existence?

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Why Science Fiction is the Future

By Sean Callaghan

No one else is trying to rewrite the future, so the rest of us should start.

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