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Rend/Render IV

TIFF Notes Summary Part IV The seed of thought and action, the sapience at root of identity can be found deep in the obscure reaches of our selves. In every way, it’s where we begin. Underlying the events of our…

Rend/Render III

TIFF Notes Summary Part III Closing on us from the future is a primary challenge to our species. An empowering, potential-actualizing destiny for the human race is threatened. The current landscape of human existence is undermined by the pursuit of…

Rend/Render II

TIFF Notes Summary Part II People who’ve never been homeless look for the silver lining. An article of faith, it’s existence is assumed. According to this line, homelessness holds a lesson for the individual. It’s not a well defined lesson,…

Rend/Render I

TIFF Notes Summary Part I The films and media I suggested during TIFF22 present elements which piece together to describe a conceptual through line. They’re not tidy or concise. Relying on the audience’s foreknowledge of context is a habit difficult…

Practical Efforts

How You Can Help Throughout my homelessness, practical help has been surprisingly hard to come by. What does that mean? It means well-intentioned people often don’t know quite how to make a positive difference for a homeless person. There are…

SQ|1

Trigger Warning: Images of actual violence and death are included in this video. (You can download the video rather than streaming it.) This video took a lot of effort to complete. The primary themes are on perspective and its origins,…

Off Ramp

Sooner or later, a person’s homelessness reaches a point of terminal decline. The undelivered resources, the absence of opportunity, the institutional violence of coercive apathy produce a kind of stasis, a kind of non-life. Beyond survival, no outcome has meaning,…

Trust Me, It’s Free

(…and if there’s a problem, you did agree to the Terms of Service!) You’ll notice every wi-fi hotspot you use asks you to agree to terms of service. These always include the caveat that the network may allow others to…

Creative Targets

Over the past few days I sought and found an Amazon delivery box to change into a container for my rice cooker. I lost it once, having to climb into a recycling dumpster to retrieve it. Today I went to…

strut, cut, blood, lunch [ʊ]

(March, 2022 – Additional update on text. All donors are now welcome. Things are pretty grim.) York U (etc.) UPDATE: I’ve looked at the resources listed at the York U website and found a couple of bright spots (though not…