Logbook
Brow of Inadequacy
Published in Rearviews/II, edited by Danielle St-Amour and Xenia Benivolski (Winter 2014).
published June 26, 2016
Cuts Make the Country Better
Michael Eddy’s review of François Lemieux and Edith Brunette’s 2015 show “Cuts make the Country Better” was included in the electronically circulated journal PDF journal #2 (published November 2015), edited by David Tomas.
This review was awarded runner-up for C Magazine’s 2015 New Critic Award.
published June 26, 2016
After Cognitive Mapping
Published in esse arts + opinions Issue 86 (Winter 2016)
In this essay, I look at Fredric Jameson’s term “cognitive mapping,” introduced in 1984 in the heat of debates on postmodernism, and trace its relevance today. The present era boasts such a concentration of mapping technologies that the key concept of mapping calls for revisiting. Nonetheless, many of Jameson’s observations about the disorienting character of capitalist globalization still ring true. I also suggest that he intended more with the term than diagrams and translations of data points. With his emphasis on the involvement of ideology in concepts of totality, the discussion opens onto other practices of representation.
See the PDF, After Cognitive Mapping
published June 26, 2016
Happy Birthday Garry
For Garry
Michael Eddy’s contribution to a book celebrating Garry Neill Kennedy‘s 80th Birthday.
Presented at a surprise party for Garry held at the Western Front, Vancouver, Nov 8th, 2015.
published June 26, 2016
my first tv 我的第一台电视机
My First TV explored memories of first experiences with televisions, as told by several generations of Beijing residents. It appeared as a booklet commissioned for “Time Capsule” by Croquis, Issue 6, April 2013.
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published June 17, 2015