A short blurb about Cary Campbell’s new book Education in a time of Social and Environmental Unravelling
Read MoreThis review by Cary Campbell of Robert Bringhurst & Jan Zwicky’s (2019) Learning to die: wisdom in the age of climate crisis, was originally published in issue #86 (Summer 2020) of subTerrain magazine. We are republishing it here (with minor additions/changes).
Read More“Part of adopting a literary perspective to the practice of philosophizing, involves some new concepts. Personally, I’m attracted to the Russian-American linguist Roman Jacobson’s (somewhat out of fashion) conception of ‘literariness’ in place of the more absolute designation ‘literature. The advantages I see in this concept is in the turning away from literature as being tethered to a concrete work or text. It is an appropriation of literature as a philosophical value to be found in anything.”
Read MoreThis review by Marion Benkaiouche of Wendy Wickwire’s (2019) At the Bridge: James Teit & an Anthropology of Belonging, was originally published in issue #85 (spring 2020) of subTerrain magazine. We are republishing it here (with minor additions/changes).
Read MoreOne night, our neighbour across the alley blew herself up. It was the late nineties/early noughts, and our neighbour, an old woman named Mrs Smith, would smoke while breathing through her oxygen mask. What happened was sad but predictable. The resultant fire destroyed her home and the one next to hers. Her neighbour, an elderly Italian woman, had stayed at her sister’s the night of the explosion. She came home the next morning and promptly died of a heart attack upon witnessing the devastation in front her.
It was out of such “vanishings” that Mrs Smith’s Lot was born.
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