The lights dim for the second of two screenings titled Matraques, a special event curated and organized by the Queer Media Database of Canada/Québec in collaboration with the queer film festival Image+Nation. The two-part screening is composed of twenty-one vignettes, each a short film or extract about the history of literal and metaphorical policing of queers Read More
The Village, a Gay Titanic Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, grounded as it is in our course in the idea of the media lab, made me think of a major concern I have when it comes to my scholarship on city space. Specifically, it made me think of the gay village, and Montreal’s Gay Village Read More
The conflict between practice and theory, between doing and producing knowledge about the practice itself, is the core problematic of Michel de Certeau’s “On the Oppositional Practices of Everyday Life.” In his theorization of the everyday – or, rather, the methodologies employable to produce knowledge about the everyday – he posits that the knowledge of Read More