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Editorial

25-03-12

The Machines Are Us Patrick Barnard

    As various contributors point out in this issue of Montreal Serai, we are obviously now living in an  Read more…

Art

25-03-12

What’s up Doc? Susan Dubrofsky

 

Commentary

25-03-12

Digital Medicine Rola Harmouche

  Quebec’s health records are going digital. Recently, I along with other Montrealers received a letter in French describing the  Read more…

Commentary

25-03-12

L’usage des technologies grand public Frédéric Plourde

    Note de l’auteur: Le texte qui suit est un texte d’opinion et non un essai. Il ne fait  Read more…

Commentary

25-03-12

Making babies for profit Shree Mulay

    Hypothetically, a child asks “Mama and Papa who is my real daddy?” In the old days, before the  Read more…

Commentary

25-03-12

Did Someone Say Twitter? Matthew Soule

      Dad gets home from work and goes down into the basement to watch television and  go on  Read more…

Short Story

25-03-12

Beep Beep Susan Dubrofsky

    The insistent electronic beeping of my alarm clock jolts me from sleep.  Beep beep.  I see 4:30 in  Read more…

Commentary

25-03-12

The Elephant God, Technology and Ethics for the 21st Century. Random thoughts on a not-so-random conspiracy. Maya Khankhoje

  Ganesh,  also known as Ganapati,  was the son of Siva and Parvati, two high-ranking deities in the Hindu pantheon.  Read more…

Commentary

25-03-12

New Technology and Ethics: Where Are We Headed? Mark Silverman

  One hundred years ago H.G. Wells grappled with the affliction of war.  He saw the ebb and flow of  Read more…

Commentary

25-03-12

Innocuous platform or spying machine? Shubhobroto Ghosh

    A recent picture, amongst others, of Mark Zuckerberg doing the rounds in cyberspace was a source of some  Read more…

Prose

25-03-12

The Year of Sea Changes Maya Khankhoje

  1956  was the year that marked  a sea change in my life. I had to leave a private grade  Read more…

Commentary

25-03-12

Whose Body Is it? Deirdre Silverman

    Reproductive Technology and Ethics Until the development of reliable contraception methods in the 20th century, control of the  Read more…

Short Story

25-03-12

David Antoine Bustros

      Tous les quelques jours, en marchand sur Quattro Venti, je croise un vendeur de bricoles itinérant. Ils  Read more…

Commentary

25-03-12

Discovering (Abstract) Kinokaleidographs (Through the film Propos contemporains sur la femme décousue) Pietro Ferrua

  In 1984, my good friend Maurice Lemaître, a noted French intellectual and artist who is prominent in the Letterist  Read more…

Short Story

25-03-12

‘Spring Flight’ John Fretz

    They met at an art college in London, England, not at the posh Slade or arty Goldsmiths, but  Read more…

Poetry

25-03-12

“Are you Christian Shanti?” shanti kumari johnson

    “I’m not Christian” “you mean you don’t believe in God? …then, what are you?” “I have a lot  Read more…

Short Story

25-03-12

The Innovative Householder Gabrielle Mathews

  He creeps through shadows, robed in dark colors to blend with his surroundings. Every breath he takes is measured,  Read more…

Commentary

25-03-12

Surviving Progress – Montreal filmmakers ask documentary-question: will more be too much? Tariq Jeeroburkhan

  “Humanity’s ascent is often measured in terms of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards towards  Read more…

Book Review

25-03-12

Review of ‘Susanna Moodie, pioneer author’ John Fretz

  Susanna Moodie, pioneer author, Anne Cimon, XYZ Publishing, 2006. Of the many immigrant groups that streamed into Canada, none  Read more…

Film Review

15-03-12

FIFA (International Festival of Films on Art) – Daily Reviews Maya Khankhoje

******** March 24, 2012   Elle s’appelait Simone Signoret. France. 2010. French with English subtitles. The American public will remember  Read more…

Commentary

29-12-11

A Montreal Life Marianne Ackerman

Between the ages of twenty-eight and forty-four, I lived for Montreal. Nothing could have budged me from this town. Pure  Read more…

Art

29-12-11

Life in America Julian Samuel

I am walking along 21st Street toward 11th Avenue to see one exhibition which takes place in three different art  Read more…

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