J.B. SPIEGEL, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF FINE ARTS https://doi.org/10.65968/FCKR5992 The social movement born out of the 2012 student strikes has been firmly branded as the Printemps Erable– or Maple Spring. If the 1960s and 70s saw Quebec’s Quiet…
Multigenerational Casserole Orchestras: the New Face of Anarchist Insurgency
JOSEPH ROSEN, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW, CENTRE FOR ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH AND EXHIBITION IN THE AFTERMATH OF VIOLENCE https://doi.org/10.65968/UDSX1660 Over the last 40 years, riot police gear has changed drastically, from billy clubs and short sleeves to fully automated…
Manifesto for Collection Action – Toward An Ethico-Aesthetic Politics
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…
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…
A revolution on the corner of St-Hubert and Marie-Anne
JEREMY STOLOW, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, COMMUNICATION STUDIES https://doi.org/10.65968/WVNH8915 The first manif des casseroles to take place at the corner of St-Hubert and Marie-Anne, just a stone’s throw from my home in the tony Plateau district of Montreal, occurred on…
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…
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Testimony of an Arrest
https://doi.org/10.65968/IQPM5213 EDITORS’ NOTE: Following the May 18 enactments of Law 78 and the Montreal municipal bylaw against masked protesters, police began arresting Quebec citizens by the hundreds. On the evening of Sunday, May 20 alone there were over 300 arrests…