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Quarter One Report

March 13, 2015 by cillian19

Quarter one is nearly over! It’s been a brutal winter here: the kind of winter that flattens out your mental landscape and renders you incapable of speaking about anything but snow and ice and roofs and frozen windows and things. Trapped inside, I felt acutely how enmeshed I am in the world of things. I had a 45-minute conversation over dinner with two friends about snowmobiles. Six weeks of non-stop blizzards produced eight-foot high blocks of snow. The ancient, rusty transportation system […]

Categories: Writing • Tags: Affect, Creative Work, Digitalisms, Materalism, Networks

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Work and Dignity

May 28, 2014 by cillian19

Yesterday was one of those blessed days, with a happy confluence of themes that kept echoing and redoubling in every image, video, and show I ran into and through. I first caught the cloying James Gray film The Immigrant, starring Marion Cotillard as Ewa Cybulskia, a Polish immigrant who tumbles off at Ellis Island in 1921. The gold and bronze baroque set-pieces back a desperate but not uncommon story of that time. Ewa is doomed upon landing, marked as a woman […]

Categories: Writing • Tags: Creative Work, Dignity, Economy, Industry, Knowledge Economy, Neoliberalism, Theory, Work

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