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In this article, I highlight the lives and works of three distinguished media ecology theorists: (1) Eric McLuhan (1942-2018; Ph.D. in English, University of Dallas, 1982); (2) Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980; Ph.D. in English, Cambridge University, 1943); and(3) Walter J. Ong, S.J. (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955). Throughout this article, I use Eric McLuhan’s 2015 book The Sensus Communis, Synesthesia, and the Soul: An Odyssey as a touchstone for my discussion of connection consciousness. I round off this article by listing a wide range of other books and articles that are also related to connection consciousness.
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This article explores how material culture and shared testimony can be the basis for relationship-building between Indigenous peoples and Jews in Canada. It relies on Indigenous Métissage, a decolonizing methodology that uses artefacts to re-story Indigenous-settler relations. Drawing on their experiences as intergenerational survivors of the Holocaust and of Residential Schools, the authors apply this practice to the wartime diary of Melania Weissenberg, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Canada as a war orphan in 1948. By exploring key points of entanglement, the authors create a braid wherein Mi’kmaw and Jewish narratives overlap, intersect, and knot together. This sort of dialogue can illuminate the structures and processes of settler colonialism while beginning to transform Indigenous-settler relations. Although the analysis addresses histories and legacies of genocide, it also shows how Indigenous and settler experiences are related through tradition, place, and memory.
Keywords: decolonization, Holocaust, Indigenous Métissage, material culture, methodological braiding, Indigenous-Jewish relations, storytelling
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In the following pages I hope to transfer my enthusiasm for the sociology of Georg Simmel to my readers. My hope is powered by something of a calling to pass on the message so central his writing and thinking that it can be condensed into one simple statement: Using his approach to culture, politics, and society translates the statement “you are wrong!” to “I see, that is how you look at it!” Thus, the blunt definition of the other person as being in error becomes an acknowledgment of a new insight. Based largely on Simmel's original writings an overall view of his approach, I try to present empowering the reader how topical his thinking is in light of some alarming social and political developments world wide in society today. This simple conversion from one view of a difference of opinion to another has an obvious potential of conflict reduction, and that is why it is “advertised” here.
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AbstractThis is a study of rhyme and alliteration in French and English. We review their possible historical origins in Latin, and consider the mnemonic resources contained in rhymed forms of proverbs, other sayings and alliterations. We then analyze a few meteorological sayings in both languages, idioms with rhymed and alliterative forms, and finally exclamations, apostrophes, and swearwords.
Keywords: rime, proverbes, dictons, assonance, allitération
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