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Stitched Into the Matrix: A Review of A Glitch in the Matrix
No full textA Glitch in the Matrix
Directed by Rodney Ascher
Magnolia Pictures (2021)
 
Transgenerational Colonial Trauma and Disordered Eating in the Work of Maaza Mengiste and Igiaba Scego
No full textThis essay analyzes how Ethiopian American Maaza Mengiste’s novel Beneath the Lion’s Gaze (2010) and Somali Italian Igiaba Scego’s memoir La mia casa è dove sono (My Home Is Where I Am, 2010) represent transgenerational colonial trauma through their female protagonists’ relationships to food. Employing Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok’s theory of transgenerational haunting, the corporeal transmission of Italian colonial trauma is explored. To supplement classic trauma theory, the work of Afrofeminist scholars who posit the importance of intersubjectivity in approaches to trauma is employed. The essay thus explores how these two literary texts render the legacy of colonial violence visceral through an emphasis on the body, the process of transforming somatic symptoms into narrative, and the necessity of community building to working through generational trauma. In their contribution to the formation of a transnational collective memory of Italian colonialism in Ethiopia and Somalia, the texts invite the reader to consider their position in relation to this trauma
“Pharmacare for All” except Women with Disabilities: Identifying Gaps in Canada’s Proposed National Pharmacare from an Intersectional Transnational Feminist Perspective
No full textIn 2019, following a year-long cross-Canada study, the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare released a report recommending the adoption of universal single-payer pharmacare. Two Liberal Party minority governments and a global pandemic later—the promise of universal national pharmacare has gone unfulfilled. In spite of the delay in its implementation, the Pharmacare Report is far from a dead letter and will form the basis of any future pharmacare design in Canada. In anticipation of the still-promised national pharmacare, this article analyzes the Pharmacare Report from an intersectional transnational feminist perspective. Despite engaging in an analysis of the differential gender and sex impacts of the pharmacare plan through its gender-based analysis plus (GBA+) approach, the report omitted any analysis of the unique pharmacare needs of women living with disabilities.I argue that the report’s failure to consider the impacts of pharmacare on women with disabilities is a fundamental omission that is contrary to transnational intersectional feminist approaches to equality and Canada’s international human rights obligations. My transnational feminist approach is two-fold. First, I apply transnational feminist theories on gender equality by Sophia Moreau and Shreya Atrey to identify gaps in the Pharmacare Report. Second, I argue that Canada’s obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities necessitate the implementation of pharmacare in a way that is sensitive to the unique access to medication barriers experienced by women living with disabilities. I conclude by partially rewriting the Pharmacare Report and suggesting potential interventions that can be made by treaty bodies to fill its identified gaps
Scientificizing McLuhan: About the Predicates of Man-Machine Coupling and the Triplex Isomorphism Hypothesis
No full textIn Laws of Media, written with his son Eric, Marshall McLuhan has tried to assign scientific status to
his ideas about media and culture, presenting his now famous Tetrad model and offering several
examples of its application on media and other cultural phenomena. Like McLuhan, this article
adopts a perceptual bias characteristic of media ecology. An attempt is made build a bridge between
the media ecology approach of McLuhan and some of the critical research on consciousness and
the brain of the past few decades. An inquiry is made of the impact of media on the operations of the
brain and its neural connections.
Departing from several referential works from authors such as McLuhan, Maurice Merleau-Ponty,
Humberto Maturana, Andy Clark, Evan Thompson and Alva Noe, we discuss the idea that media not
only engenders its specific perceptual bias, but also creates a kind of experience related to the
epistemic context from which it emerges. By following this path, it is possible to understand humanmachine
coupling – specifically within digital culture. Through an examination of the hypothesis of a
triplex isomorphism between <brain>, <apparatus> and <experience>, McLuhan’s approach to
understanding media begins to develop a hard-science validity
Introducing Adriana Braga’s Video-Article, Howie and the Outsiders
No full textIntroducing Adriana Braga’s Video-Article, Howie and the Outsider