Smith ou Malthus ? Le défi énergétique

Comment être optimiste à la lumière des dangers qui guettent la planète? Peut-on rêver d’une solution miracle, d’une technologie capable de produire une énergie non polluante et renouvelable pour prendre la relève des combustibles fossiles? Les théories économiques néo-libérales smithiennes Lire / Read

The Popular Resurgence of Jazz?

A new incarnation of popular music singers can be heard playing their craft on popular airwaves. The recent parade of jazz-oriented artists such as Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Michael Bublé, Jamie Cullum, and others have many adult contemporary listeners thinking Lire / Read

Nature Matters

At a recent conference in Toronto entitled Nature Matters: Materiality and the More-Than-Human in Cultural Studies of the Environment (Oct. 25-28, 2007), presenters spoke on a wide range of topics, all of which touched in some way on the difficulties Lire / Read

Kosovo: Reconsidering Independence

The news outlets have lately been busily covering the Serbian province of Kosovo and its unilateral declaration of independence. Implicitly pre-established images of Serbia—evoking war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and, most horribly, genocide—have been used by Western politicians to secure public Lire / Read