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Canada at 150: Point to the Dead Bodies (and Keep Pointing)

How Should Progressives Respond to Canada’s 150th Birthday?

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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 Anarchic Impulse: The Meaning of Brexit

How Should We Understand the UK’s Decision to Leave the EU?

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Masculine/Power: Draper/Harper

What Links Don Draper and Stephen Harper? A Lot More Than You’d Think.

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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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Against the Structured Generation

By Mark McConaghy

For a generation defined by the structured rhythms of the school and the corporation, what possibilities exist to nurture the “gaps” in experience the lead to genuine change?

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The Scene: Wednesday Night Music at the Drake Hotel

By Mark McConaghy

In this new series, entitled The Scene, we send our writers to spaces and cultural events around our city to report about them. What does it mean to be alive in our here and now?

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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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Reading Excess: On Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street

By Mark McConaghy

Martin Scorsese’s latest film is a 3 hour montage of relentless sex, drugs, debauchery, and rampant disregard for the victims of financial predation. So is this supposed to be a critique of Wall Street or a glorification of it? I weigh in on the controversy surrounding the film.

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