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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
Striking in a Time of Austerity: The NOSM Strike in Northern Ontario
(Published in The Bullet: Socialist Project E-bulletin on October 3, 2010.) The 150 members of Unit 2 of Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) Local 677 have been on strike since August 16. The office, technical, and administrative workers at … Continue reading
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Challenging Masculinity is About Much More Than ‘Unloading This Junk’
(Published at XYOnline on August 14, 2010.) A recent article called “5 Stupid, Unfair and Sexist Things Expected of Men” by Greta Christina raises the important questions of how “sexism hurts men” and why feminists and pro-feminists should care, and … Continue reading
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Review: Men and Feminism
(Published at XYOnline on August 14, 2010.) [Shira Tarrant. Men and Feminism. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2009.] I sometimes find it hard to properly evaluate political books that are intended as introductory. Their goal — or, at least, the most … Continue reading
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One Day Longer? The Vale-Inco Strike Comes to a Close
(Published at Z-Net on July 23, 2010.) On July 7 and 8, 2010, striking members of United Steel Workers Local 6500 in Sudbury, Ontario, voted 75% in favor of a contract that ended a bitter strike against transnational mining giant … Continue reading
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Cut Through Spin During G8, G20 Summits
(Published in Northern Life on July 21, 2010.) In the next week, people in Sudbury will be seeing a lot in the news about the G8 and G20 summits. Politicians, big business leaders and bureaucrats from the most powerful countries … Continue reading
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