Articles by Alex Manley
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Nah’msayin?
The Future of Weather
Maybe it’s because I’ve been listening to too much Nost-orious D.A.M.U.S. lately, but I can’t help but start to worry about the future—specifically, the future of the weather.
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Failing the Test
Alison Bechdel and the Cult of the Filmic Man
There’s this recurring motif to conversations about films that they don’t actually matter and what goes on in a movie isn’t important—it’s just a movie. It’s not real life.
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The Link’s Annual Women’s Issue
First things first—we have made incredible gains. Let us not deny that; let us not forget that, or denigrate that. The women and men who have come before us have brought us to a good, solid place. In many ways, women and men in North America right now are exactly equal.
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How to Keep Friends and Not Alienate People
Five Secrets of Highly Successful Strikers
These are troubling times, my friends.
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Editorial
“Socially Responsible” Indeed
There’s been some talk in the press lately about students who are pro-tuition hike.
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Nah’msayin?
The Tyranny of St. Valentine
I come to tell you of a great tragedy, one that has gone undiscussed, unrevealed to the public eye for too long. For decades innocent humans have suffered under the tyranny of St. Valentine, their pain untalked about in the media, their misery shunned.
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A Trail Through the Digital Mountains
Montreal Artist Jon Rafman to Give FASA Talk
Two decades into the Internet era, more writing, more photographs, more video, music and art than could ever be consumed in a lifetime now get created—and uploaded—in a week or so.
Rather than attempt to create new and engaging art in the pretense of a vacuum, artists are now increasingly embracing the clutter, and creating by interacting directly with the mountains of data we produce, and re-contextualizing it.
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Mega-Explode
What Reactions to U.S. Gov’t’s MegaUpload Takedown Say About the War on Digital Piracy
The day after the Jan. 18 Wikipedia-led symbolic blackout in protest of the American Congress’s imminent vote on the Stop Online Piracy and Protect Intellectual Property Acts, the American government took down Megaupload.com.
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A Metra Hive of Slush and Villainy
Get Lost in Metraville’s Footnotes & Alleyways
The modern city is a confusing, dangerous and ultimately illogical place—and the modern Canadian city, doubly so.
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No to Movember
Share the Funds, Shave the ‘Stache
The whole ‘Movember’ thing is cute and all, but can we stop and be real about it for a second? Movember is a movement to celebrate North American guys not practicing basic facial hygiene for a month in order to raise money towards saving a group of extremely privileged people—themselves.
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The Oakland Moment
The Protesters, the Press and the Cop with the Kitten
Up until last week, here’s what I knew about Oakland: It’s in California. It’s across the Bay from San Francisco. And it’s the home of Major League Baseball’s A’s, aka the Athletics, whose team colours are green and gold.
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Fight for Your Right to Poetry
Mile End Poets’ Festival to Occupy the Main
In a world where Occupy protests are popping up in public spaces around the globe like revolutionary seedlings, a group of Montreal poets is out to occupy St. Laurent Blvd. this week—but their demands aren’t necessarily about international finance.
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Editorial
Bring Bodies to the Board Room
Concordia’s Board of Governors seems to think they’re stuck in some sort of 28 Days Later scenario. I think they picture a Concordia campus void of students; building after building empty, wind whistling through unoccupied desks, blackboards gathering dust.
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Poets en Masse
Poetry Event Aims to Change the World
In the popular imagination, poetry is often conceived of as a solitary activity, featuring a degree of self-involvement that borders on egomania. On Sept. 24, however, poets across the world will be involved in an event that will challenge both of those assumptions.
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Nah’msayin?
McGill Frosh Must Die
It’s that time of year again. McGill frosh.
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Editorial
Students Could Use $35,000, too.
The process of raising children is one fraught with opportunities for disaster. Milk gets spilled, swear words get learned and occasionally, the wrong lessons get taught. When your kids catch you telling them to do one thing, while you yourself are doing another, you may have to pull out the trusty buffalo gun of hypo- critical parenting: “Do as I say, not as I do.”
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Short Like a Butterfly, Brief Like a Bee
Salvatore DiFalco’s Strange The Mountie at Niagara Falls
When people get down to debating where to draw the border between poetry and prose, books like Salvatore DiFalco’s The Mountie at Niagara Falls and other brief stories will certainly get caught in the crossfire.
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Still Warm From the Prize
Giller Prize-Winner Johanna Skibsrud Returns to ConU to Read
If you were living under a rock back in November, or perhaps under a stack of term papers and library books
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2011 English Awards Wrap-Up
Lit Nerds Take Home Books, Cash Prizes, Future Play Performances for Their Hard Work
On Friday afternoon as the second of two, at times heated, CSU election debates wrapped up in the Hall building, the 2011 Concordia English Awards ceremony
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A History of Literary Arts In The Link
The Link’s first dedicated literary arts editor—known then as the “literary coordinator”—was Phil Moscovitch.