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Scott’s Blog- The far right and its enablers are lying to youIt's pretty clear that a lot of people don't understand the way that more extreme elements on the right try to build support for their agenda of harm and violence and a base to pursue it by organizing things like the anti-queer/anti-trans actions across the country last week and the convoy occupation last year. Not […]
- Social Media is Making Me a Worse ReaderI have realized in the last few days that social media – especially but not only Twitter – has made me a worse reader.I mean this in a specific way. For me at least, this is not about, say, social media use monopolizing time that I would otherwise use to read books, or about social […]
- Review: The Twittering Machine[Richard Seymour. The Twittering Machine. London: The Indigo Press, 2019.]There is practically an entire industry devoted to churning out think-pieces, studies, books, and articles expressing concern about the impacts of social media and the broader spectrum of information technology of which it is a part on our lives and our world. It comes in lots […]
- Review: Four Thousand Weeks[Oliver Burkeman. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. Toronto: Allen Lane, 2021.]An anti-productivity book, of sorts. In most books that are either directly or indirectly about how we individually make use of our time, the goal is to enable the reader to do more. Now, I don't actually often read that sort of book, […]
- Review: The Dawning of the Apocalypse[Gerald Horne. The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020.]Historical scholarship. A sweeping history of the long sixteenth century, from the first voyage of Columbus in 1492 to the establishment of the first permanent English-speaking settlement in […]
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- The far right and its enablers are lying to youIt's pretty clear that a lot of people don't understand the way that more extreme elements on the right try to build support for their agenda of harm and violence and a base to pursue it by organizing things like the anti-queer/anti-trans actions across the country last week and the convoy occupation last year. Not […]
- Social Media is Making Me a Worse ReaderI have realized in the last few days that social media – especially but not only Twitter – has made me a worse reader.I mean this in a specific way. For me at least, this is not about, say, social media use monopolizing time that I would otherwise use to read books, or about social […]
- Review: The Twittering Machine[Richard Seymour. The Twittering Machine. London: The Indigo Press, 2019.]There is practically an entire industry devoted to churning out think-pieces, studies, books, and articles expressing concern about the impacts of social media and the broader spectrum of information technology of which it is a part on our lives and our world. It comes in lots […]
- Review: Four Thousand Weeks[Oliver Burkeman. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. Toronto: Allen Lane, 2021.]An anti-productivity book, of sorts. In most books that are either directly or indirectly about how we individually make use of our time, the goal is to enable the reader to do more. Now, I don't actually often read that sort of book, […]
- Review: The Dawning of the Apocalypse[Gerald Horne. The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020.]Historical scholarship. A sweeping history of the long sixteenth century, from the first voyage of Columbus in 1492 to the establishment of the first permanent English-speaking settlement in […]
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Category Archives: Other Writing by Scott
Reflections based on 10 years of Talking Radical Radio
Talking Radical Radio was a weekly radio show and podcast featuring interviews with people involved in a wide range of grassroots political work across so-called Canada. It ran from February 2013 to February 2023, and over that time there were … Continue reading
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Eli Clare’s Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation — A genderqueer classic revisited
(Published at Rabble.ca on March 29, 2012.) Exile and Pride (Classics Edition): Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare (South End Press, 2009; $19.99) I often feel that describing the pieces that I write in response to books as “reviews” … Continue reading
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New Book Explores the Legacy of Colonization and Decolonization for Native American Rights
(Published at Left Eye On Books on September 27, 2011.) The best part of “Earth Into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism,” the second and final entry in Globalization Studies professor Anthony Hall’s “The Bowl with One Spoon” project, is his … Continue reading
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Imperialist Canada: A Review
(Published at Left Eye On Books on May 20, 2011.) Few features of the political culture here in Canada are more likely to set my teeth on edge than the devotion not only of the right and center but of … Continue reading
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Resisting Austerity: Don’t (Just) Show Me the Money
(Published at New Socialist Webzine on April 18, 2011.) We hear a lot these days about the need for cuts to public spending, for saving money. The use of this rhetoric to cover massive changes in how our lives and … Continue reading
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Feelings About Masculinity
(Published at XYOnline on January 7, 2011.) I was recently puzzling over why I was having such difficulty doing a particular piece of writing. Everything I tried felt a little off key, a little false, and I couldn’t understand it. … Continue reading
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Neliberalism and Home Care
(Published in Linchpin in December 2010.) “If your Mom didn’t take care of you [when you were a child], would you be able to go to work?” Those are the words of trade union activist, graduate student, and single mother … Continue reading
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