So far, I’ve tried to make all my posts have a point, even if it’s only (and it usually is) an itty-bitty one. But, I’ve been thinking with all of our posts on the nature of technology, isn’t part of the point of blogging that it doesn’t have to have a point? So here goes [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Urban Space’
self-indulgence
Posted in Karen Bourrier, tagged Luggage, mobility, museum, tourism, transatlantic, travel, Urban Space on August 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Back to the Future – now in 3D!
Posted in Fiona Coll, tagged Commodification, museum, photography, technology, Urban Space on July 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Whilst wandering the streets of Montreal recently, I came across an outdoor photo exhibition displayed along the west side of McGill College, just north of Ste-Catherine. The exhibition, entitled 1 image 2 eyes 3D, has been curated by the McCord Museum, and consists of 12 images of nineteenth-century Quebec.
Animals in the City: Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science
Posted in Jennifer Esmail, tagged Animals, Urban Space, Wilkie Collins on May 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I have just finished reading Wilkie Collins’s novel Heart and Science (1883). One of the things I was most struck by was the presence of animals in the world of the novel. In its exploration – and dichotomizing – of “heart and science,” the novel focuses on the issue of vivisection so animals obviously play [...]
