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Responding to the Ottawa transit strike

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Ottawa transit strike brings city to a standstill:
At 12:01 AM on December 10th, buses stopped moving in Ottawa as the over 2,200 members of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 279 officially went on strike, while at the same time over 30 centimetres of snow was falling and one of the four bridges linking Ottawa and [...]

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A Change in the Arctic Neighbourhood: Greenland Referendum

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Arctic states are becoming a reality.  This means that we could one day talk of arctic lawmaking and jurisprudence without having to explain, for example that Canada’s marriage laws own much to experiments in the Northwest Territories in the 1970s to accommodate Inuit customary marriage.  This also means the territorialization of the north, respatializing a [...]

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Salman Rushdie and the Festival of Ideas

Friday, November 14, 2008

Comments from Salman Rushdie on freedom, religion, growing up in Bombay and England, and the theme of fear and happiness in the modern world and how it is anticipated in earlier imperial moments, such as the mid 1400s which saw the discovery of America, the flowering of Venice and Florence and, far to the east, [...]

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Border-Crossing: Passage Oublié

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Passage Oublié is an interactive touchscreen artwork about extraordinary renditions, installed at Pearson Airport, Toronto.
 

“What else do we lose when we make people disappear? Passage Oublié is an interactive artwork allowing the public to send messages to a touchscreen kiosk located in Pearson’s International Airport. Messages received are animated along flight trajectories on a map [...]

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Urban computing, locative media and everyday life in the future city

Monday, September 1, 2008

Space and Culture readers may be interested in my recently completed PhD dissertation, A Brief History of the Future of Urban Computing and Locative Media.
From the abstract:
Following urban computing and locative media and their accompanying visions from labs, conferences and classrooms to journal publications and popular media accounts, this dissertation presents four case histories in [...]

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