Decolonizing the Occupations: Shortlist of Links
12 Oct 2011, Posted in Blog, 0 Comments
Putting together a shortlist of some of our favourites so far, not limited to Canada…
Continue Reading...Seeking critical responses to the “Occupy movement” from indigenous, radical and/or anticapitalist perspectives
12 Oct 2011, Posted in Blog, 0 Comments
FUSE is seeking visual and/or written critical responses to the racism of the “Occupy movement” (we’re especially but not exclusively focusing on the ways that language of “occupation” obscures the fact that North America is built on stolen land). If you or your colleagues are writing about this and can get us a draft of a 1,000-2,000 word text in the next week for publication in our December issue (final copy due November 7), please get in touch ASAP and let me know what you’ve got on deck. Write to editor AT fusemagazine DOT org and put OCCUPY in the subject heading.
Continue Reading...Dancing Mounties, Flamingo Pink Jackets, Culture and Elitism
25 Apr 2011, Posted in Articles, Featured, 1 Comments
At the closing ceremonies for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, as crooner Michael Buble belted out the lyrics to the 1867 nation-building anthem “The Maple Leaf Forever,” centre stage at BC Place Stadium was overtaken by a spectacle of dancing helium-filled balloon statues, including gigantic prancing moose and beavers, gold-medal-toting 20-foot-tall hockey players and plaid-shirted lumberjacks.
Continue Reading...Rhetorical Maneuvers in Contemporary Art, Part 1
04 Jan 2011, Posted in Articles, Featured, 7 Comments
George Orwell’s famous 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language” is generally read and interpreted, in the North American context at least, as primarily concerned with matters of style, and particularly with vagueness, pretension and clichéd, “dead” phraseology. It is taught as a warning and a corrective for writers.
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