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Video-objects are often discussed in terms of their ability to reflect upon the speed of our narcissistic culture, but less acknowledged is video's agency to perform electronic events outside of human experience. This article engages in scholarship interested in the space of video operations where lived and imagined, real and virtual phenomena are experienced at the threshold of perception. Bringing into this conversation a discussion of The Waves (2003), an interactive installation by video pioneer and media critic Thierry Kuntzel, the article moves away from the time/movement nexus grounded in a filmic understanding of the image to position video-memory as the emergence of a volume of time. Different from the time-image and movement-image of cinema, the volume-image of video defines a mode of engaging with multiple temporalities within the continuum of the video itself. Constituted progressively through layers of ever-changing signal processes, the volume-image of video technology is an open field, a transductive zone where multiple intensities create new representational rhythms, which disrupt the durational model of time so often attached to human experience.
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Based on a two-year field study involving 50 semi-structured interviews with new and long-established shopkeepers in two former working-class Montreal neighbourhoods undergoing gentrification, this paper explores the multifaceted relationship storeowners cultivate with the changing population of their primary catchment area. Moving beyond the stereotypical representations of “new trendy” and “old overwhelmed” shopkeepers, the analysis reveals how business and neighbourhood logics intertwine, sometimes leading to moral dilemmas that shape the interactions with three categories of residents: the target clientele, the undesirables, and the others.
Keywords: commerce, gentrification, quartiers centraux, Montréal, retail, gentrification, inner-city neighbourhoods, Montreal
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Literature's lack of social legitimacy—a fact on which today's critics agree—does not mean that the public figure of the writer, or the writer's words, are banished: a number of periodicals, in the 1990s and 2000s, continue to publish columns and occasional pieces by contemporary authors. Two free cultural weeklies, Ici and Voir, reproduce traditional newspapers' practice of seeking regular contributions from writers. This article examines the column “Hors champ” published by novelist Nicolas Dickner in Voir from 2006 to 2012. Observing in some two hundred short texts, published over a period of six years, the interaction between the very wide remit that the weekly gave Dickner and the way in which he appropriated it, by investing the form and through his choice of topics, we will attempt to show how one figure of the Québec writer in the 2000s decade has been constructed and to question its meaning. We will look at some of the analogical mechanisms used by Dickner to try and define his craft and, at the same time, the role of literature in contemporary society.
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As Virginia Woolf said, our world is in the midst of childbirth. Multifaceted change is underway in cultural institutions, libraries, museums and, generally, in all places where knowledge is created. Change is transforming our work habits, practices and relationships with our users. How do we evaluate and highlight our place in the knowledge society? How do we reconcile change with the important notions of truth, cultural and social solidarity as well as sharing, that forceful catalyst of human dignity?Harnessing the mass of data to make them reliable and truthful and taking ownership of new technologies in order to build a free and open tender are part of the challenge to be met by those whose primary mission is to build a knowledge base, that is accessible, sincere, and altruistic for all.The change we are currently experiencing is the result of four major events in human history: the transformation of the financial, economic and commercial map of the world; the unfolding of a digital era that has forever changed the relationship of human beings to knowledge; the demographic expansions in Asia and Africa that will soon disrupt the distribution of the world's population; and, finally, the colossal environmental issues that our society must immediately face.Beginning with the first developments in Québec society and followed by an internationally renowned artificial intelligence laboratory, history is created with the information used by the human mind to which it imparts a vital energy. Change must be undertaken by sharing information in all its forms and with all, which means putting an end to the scandal that is illiteracy in our learned and connected societies. This also requires accelerating the transition to a digital civilisation, by establishing a digital legal deposit, the scanning of heritage collections and the creation of avant-garde libraries that provide a space for the innovative and creative laboratories such as the future Saint-Sulpice library.We also have to think about the future of creation. In an era of robotics, algorithms, artificial intelligence, and big data, what does the future hold for the safeguard, the production and the sharing of knowledge?
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While the purchase of a ticket marks the theatregoer's commitment to consuming the Broadway musical, the experience of the live performance is not the end of his consumption of the given musical, or of the Broadway brand. Post-performance, the spectator will communicate his memories of and emotional responses to the musical, along with the ideas it promoted, advertising the musical's brand for the producers, free of charge. This article traces the developments in musical theatre marketing from 1960 onwards to illustrate how and why spectators choose to consume musicals. With analysis of marketing campaigns, audience demographic studies conducted by Broadway producers and other archival material, this article privileges the musical theatre spectator's value as both consumer and commodity.
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Keywords: cinéma autochtone, cinéma québécois, femmes réalisatrices, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, Nish Media, Rustic Oracle
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This paper examines the resistance and revival of outmoded photographic technologies, in a new format we call “new analogue photography”. This type of image resignifies old analogue practices as stated by Ansel Adams (2019a, 2019b, 2018) in three key areas: 1. meaning, 2. methodology, and 3. aesthetics. It is the grain image adapted to the connected media ecosystem in post-photographic times. The contribution of millennials and gen Z to the growth of this type of photography is presented and discussed. At the conclusion, the decalogue of the new analogue photography is stated, summing up its practice and significance across ten topics.
Keywords: analogue photography, post-photography, hybridism, new media ecology
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The author describes the overhaul of the $2.5 trillion health care system in United States which is the most dramatic revamp of health policy in four decades. Finally, after several votes, between November 2009 and March 2010, in U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, concluding an epic struggle between Democrats and Republicans, the new Law signed and promulgated by the President last March is extending coverage to an estimated 32 million uninsured Americans and bars insurance practices like refusing coverage to those with pre-existing medical conditions.