ERIN MANNING, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF FINE ARTS https://doi.org/10.65968/JCAV9295 1. “Carrément dans le rouge” The movement to the streets begins as a directed critique aimed at the neoliberal project of transforming the right to education into individual debt. Students…
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Buying Out: Of Capitulation and Contestation
BRIAN MASSUMI, UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL, DÉPARTEMENT DE COMMUNICATION https://doi.org/10.65968/KUDS3775 The Charest government’s imposition of Special Law 78 was seen by many to have crossed a line. The formal constraints it placed on the right to association and the…
Bodies-Streets
JONATHAN STERNE, MCGILL UNIVERSITY, ART HISTORY AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES; HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE https://doi.org/10.65968/JAIG6750 The city provides the order and organization that automatically links otherwise unrelated bodies […] The city orients and organizes family, sexual and social…
Clamouring Out: Against the Privative Sphere
KRISTA GENEVIÈVE LYNES, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, COMMUNICATION STUDIES https://doi.org/10.65968/GJHJ4607 Every day we are living through an infinite number of protests and mobilizations across the entire country. Each of them raises different demands. However, there is a point in common:…
It didn’t start with Occupy, and it won’t end with the student strike! The persistence of anti-authoritarian politics in Quebec
ANNA KRUZYNSKI, RACHEL SARRASIN AND SANDRA JEPPESEN, RESEARCH GROUP ON COLLECTIVE AUTONOMY (COLLECTIF DE RECHERCHE SUR L’AUTONOMIE COLLECTIVE OR “CRAC”)* https://doi.org/10.65968/UGKT4483 What we are seeing today in Quebec, and particularly in Montréal, is a public moment of a…
Livestreaming on CUTV: ‘Emboldened riot culture’ of Student Strike
SANDRA JEPPESEN, LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY ORILLIA, MEDIA STUDIES https://doi.org/10.65968/HXKA1477 Arguably the best media coverage of the student strike in Montreal is coming from an unexpected source – CUTV, or what is now called Community-University TV (formerly Concordia University TV). Live…