Archive for the 'Mobilities' Category

Book Review: De diabolische snelweg (The Diabolic Highway)

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

De diabolische snelweg: Over de traditie van de mooie weg in het Nederlandse landschap en het verlangen naar de schitterende snelweg in de grote stad, Wim Nijenhuis and Wilfried van Winden, Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2007. 206 pp.
[Title translates as The Diabolic Highway: On the Dutch tradition of the attractive country road and the desire […]

Adventures in consumerism

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Factory Girl: Dora the Explorer and the Dirty Secrets of the Global Industrial Economy by Lois Leveen
Throughout her adventures, Dora enjoys an unusual geographic mobility, crossing landscapes but never distinct borders, always returning home rather than staying somewhere new. Her animated domain is devoid of references to social class, labor, or a currency-based economy. 
But […]

Operation Silhouette: delegating governance

Friday, June 6th, 2008

The Vancouver Sun reports that the city’s police are now using cardboard cops with radar guns to get drivers to slow down:
‘There may or may not be a police officer behind one of these cut-outs,’ Vancouver police traffic Staff Sgt. Ralph Pauw said at a news conference. Police will erect several on poles at the […]

Welcome to the new game city, real but not actual

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Liberty City is inspired by New York, but not beholden to it. While there are many parallels, Liberty exists in its own universe and rightfully so. Many open-world games have cities that feel as if they existed only from the moment you first turned on your console, but Liberty City looks lived in. It’s an […]

Three million tulips

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Photo by hswapnil
The annual Tulip Festival began on Friday and runs until May 19th.
In the fall of 1945, Princess Juliana of the Netherlands presented Ottawa with 100,000 tulip bulbs. The gift was given in appreciation of the safe haven that members of Holland’s exiled royal family received during the Second World War in Ottawa and […]

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