Theoria

As a matter of principle, in recent years I’ve avoided getting involved in the blog-o-sphere controversy de jour. Now that Naomi Schaefer Riley has been fired from Chronicle Brainstorm and has entered the conservative pantheon of–well–whatever you call David Horowitz and Jonah Goldberg, its safe for me to make some comments. Or, more to the [...]

Today is Blythe’s birthday. Given that it is sad to bake your own cake and given that it was a teaching day for me, we had no option but to outsource the cake. Being in Ottawa, our options were limited: either Auntie Loo’s or Thimblecakes. We’ve already written off Auntie Loo’s for bringing you the [...]

Cupcakes: a very important topic worthy of detailed discussion. For a while now (perhaps a year?) there has been a vegan “bakery” in Ottawa called Auntie Loo’s. As one might gather from my use of scare-quotes, I don’t think very highly of the establishment. When we first became aware of her desserts, we tried most [...]

Updated October 8. Lefort was a huge, albeit not entirely visible, influence on my thought. It is unfortunate that his work has been excessively looked over in the English language political theory. People interested in his work might want to consult a special issue of Thesis Eleven on him. His books in translation, currently in [...]

Victims of the Montreal Massacre at l’École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989 Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Montreal Massacre on Wikipedia One of the very few articles in the Canadian English [...]