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Populism and the Erasure of History
Volume 31 Issue 2

Propagating ignorance in the name of the people
At the beginning of the year, I was invited to act as guest editor for the current issue of […]

Wartin Pantois: Ephemeral works invoking the forgotten
Preface by Montréal Serai A high-profile yet anonymous artist in his hometown Québec City and beyond, Wartin Pantois is […]

Sadaka-Reut: 35 years of creating hope
My name is Dina Gardashkin. I’m a Jewish Israeli, and the first time I learned what the word […]

Populism? All a game?
Things were simpler in the past. Authority figures told us what “our” gods wanted us to believe and how […]

« Le populisme dénigre la pensée » — Entrevue avec Francine Pelletier
Journaliste de longue date, lauréate du prix Hyman-Solomon pour l’excellence journalistique dans le domaine des politiques publiques, et professeure adjointe […]

Aux limites du matériau
À travers mon travail avec l’argile, j’explore les notions d’identité et de territoire. La mémoire, le legs, […]

Populism: propaganda or pipe dream
As a political ideology, populism can be divided into an array of currents, beyond the obvious distinction between right- […]

Speaking at Eye Level: Decoding the Language of Populism
A quick search of the term populism in cyberspace reveals its increasing popularity (no pun intended) in the last decade, […]

Radius Islamicus
Radius Islamicus by Julian Samuel, Guernica Editions, 2018 “The radius islamicus is the farthest distance a camel part is […]

Man on a Rocking Chair in San Juan & I Shot a .38
Man on a Rocking Chair in San Juan In San Juan I found a man rocking on his balcony, […]

Sanitizing the Syllabus
Writing and rewriting history are primeval pursuits of human beings. Not all human beings, maybe, but at least those who […]

Populism: Mesmerize and Confound the Present and Sully the Past!
Sometime in 1976, Jean Baudrillard, the French philosopher, suggested that saturating the media with carefully selected flash news disables […]

La transition énergétique et numérique : un prurit ou un danger populiste ?
Alicia Loría, langagière, accro du numérique, mère d’une femme merveilleuse, grand-mère de trois fleurs printanières cherchant leurs vocations professionnelles, […]