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Cynicism, the Heuristic Pharmakon
(English Studies in Canada, 2012-06)
Cynicism can productively guide critical thinking about social relations under late neoliberal capital, in terms of power and ethics, in terms of knowledge and interpretation. A cynical perspective makes for a safe bet in ...
Debate as a Teaching Strategy in Online Education: A Case Study.
(2011)
This reflective case study was based on our independent use of the debate as an online
instructional approach and our shared interest in teaching strategies. In an interdisciplinary manner, using narrative inquiry and ...
How well do Canadian distance education students understand plagiarism?
(IRRODL, 2014)
This project ascertains how well students taking online, distance education courses at a Canadian university recognize plagiarised material and how well they paraphrase. It also assesses the types of errors made. Slightly ...
Invisible Women in History and Global Studies: Reflections from an Archival Research Project
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-01)
This article questions the continuing invisibility of the significant scale of the involvement of women in historical movements/moments. The focus is on Mahatma Gandhi-led Civil Disobedience movement (1930-33), which was ...
Agamben’s Curio Cabinet, Animality, and the Zone of Indeterminacy
(Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2017)
As I have argued elsewhere, Agamben’s thought remains mired in a transcendental way of thinking that falls under the Hegelian critique. In this essay, through a hermeneutical method that can be aptly characterized ...
The DJ as Critic, "constructing a sort of argument"
(English Studies in Canada, 2015)
Countering romanticized representations of the disc jockey (DJ) as author, rock star, or shaman, this essay argues that the DJ is best understood as a critic, emblematic of appropriation as criticism in a mediascape ...
Resistance is Futile: On the Under-Representation of Unions in Science Fiction
(TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 2016)
This article surveys science fiction (SF) since 1980, and queries the conspicuous under-representation of recognizable images of unions in popular SF, which includes, in contrast, numerous images and narratives of corporate ...
Fair dealing: We’ve got it, let’s use it. Review of Rosemary Coombe et al's Dynamic Fair Dealing
(Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, 2016)
This review of Rosemary Coombe et al's edited collection Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian culture online (University of Toronto Press, 2014) sketches the global and Canadian copyright contexts that make this book ...
Introduction to New Fronts in the Copyfight, Part 1 (2014-15)
(Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, 2015)
Intellectual property (IP) is a subject of concern to all academics because it is the legal-economic infrastructure of all academic work. The long-increasing, now accelerating, and multilateral strengthening of IP regulation ...