Below the Radar

Below the Radar checks in with Simon Fraser University’s recently installed president and vice-chancellor, Joy Johnson. Stepping into her new role in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Joy speaks to how SFU is working to meet the current challenges it is facing, from adapting to online learning and an added strain on mental health, to addressing systemic racism and inequality within the university and beyond.

In this episode, Joy shares her vision for a more equitable, inclusive, and connected SFU, centering the student experience and community partnerships. We hear about some of Joy’s hopes for SFU’s future medical school and the proposed Burnaby Mountain gondola. She also speaks about her background as a nurse and public health researcher interested in the social determinants of health.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/100-joy-johnson.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/100-joy-johnson/

Bio:

Dr. Joy Johnson, SFU’s 10th president and vice-chancellor, is passionate about SFU’s academic and research mission.

As president, Joy is committed to enhancing student learning experiences, working towards reconciliation, and advancing equity, diversity and inclusion across SFU. Prior to her appointment as president, Joy served as SFU’s vice-president, research and international from 2014 to 2020. She currently leads SFU’s equity, diversity and inclusion initiative.

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Johal, Am. “Joy Johnson: SFU's New Prez.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, January 21, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/100-joy-johnson.html.

Below the Radar explores critical theory, anti-authoritarianism, the philosophy of technology, and the storied academic career of SFU School of Communication professor Andrew Feenberg, who studied under influential theorists, including renowned German-American philosopher Herbert Marcuse of the Frankfurt School.

Am Johal and Andrew Feenberg discuss Andrew’s intellectual journey with critical theory, the rise of social democratic student movements in the United States in the context of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the ‘60s, and dig into the relevance of Marcuse’s work in radical politics and art today.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/99-andrew-feenberg.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/99-andrew-feenberg.html

Bio:

Andrew Feenberg received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego under the direction of Herbert Marcuse in 1973. From 1969-2002, he taught in the Philosophy Department of San Diego State University. From 2003-2016 he served as Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, where he continues to direct the Applied Communication and Technology Lab. He was also Directeur de Progamme at the College International de Philosophie in Paris from 2013-2019. His books include Alternative Modernity (University of California, 1995), Questioning Technology (Routledge Press, 1999), The Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Lukács and the Frankfurt School, (Verso Press, 2014), Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity (MIT Press, 2010), His most recent books are Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason (Harvard, 2017), Technology, Modernity, and Democracy, co-edited with Eduardo Beira (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018), and Nishida, Kawabata, and the Japanese Response to Modernity (Chisokudõ, 2019). Several books on his work have appeared including Critical Theory and the Thought of Andrew Feenberg, edited by D. Arnold and A. Michel, and Technical Politics: Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory of Technology by Graeme Kirkpatrick. He is also recognized as an early innovator in the field of online communication. He participated in the creation of the first online education program at the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute in 1982. He has done research on online community for the National Science Foundation and on online education for the U.S. Department of Education and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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Johal, Am. “Marcuse and the Rise of the New Left — with Andrew Feenberg.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, January 12, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/99-andrew-feenberg.html.

Below the Radar explores immigration and connecting to community and social justice movements through art with Adriana Contreras, a visual artist and storyteller who captures dialogues as they unfold as a graphic recorder.

Adriana is in conversation with co-hosts Fiorella Pinillos and Melissa Roach about her journey with visual arts and dance as a first generation immigrant from Colombia. Adriana tells us how her love for the arts has shaped her career, sharing her experiences of working as a visual artist and communicator at the intersection of art and social change.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/98-adriana-contreras.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/98-adriana-contreras.html

Resources:

— New Works: https://www.newworks.ca/

Bio:

Adriana Contreras Correal is a visual artist, graphic recorder and illustrator. She was born in Bogotá, Colombia and immigrated to BC with her family in 1998, at the age of fifteen. Artistic expression has always been a central part of Adriana's life and became an essential tool for navigating the world as a first-generation immigrant. Adriana completed her BFA at SFU School for the Contemporary Arts in 2006 and has worked and volunteered in numerous local Arts and Community organizations for 20 years. Highlights include SFU Galleries, New Performance Works Society, SFU Woodwards' Cultural programs, SFU Health and Counselling, Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre, Collingwood Neighbourhood House, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, the Burnaby and Vancouver Art Galleries. In 2018 Adriana trained to become a graphic recorder. This allowed her to bring together her knowledge and passion for visual language and communication, her work in migrant justice, health, and community building, and her desire to expand her artistic practice. Adriana is now a full-time Graphic Recorder, Illustrator and Designer, working independently and as a proud team member of Fuselight Creative and On the Right Mind.

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Pinillos, Fiorella, and Roach, Melissa. “Art, Migration, and Connection — with Adriana Contreras.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, December 22, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/98-adriana-contreras.html.

“Cities are fundamentally about people.” Mary Rowe joins Below the Radar to discuss the pandemic moment as an opportunity to reimagine how we live together in an urban environment. She and Am Johal are in conversation about the urgent need to build social solidarity around collective disaster, honing in on how people are in relationship with their community at the hyperlocal level.

As the president and CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute, Mary’s recent work is concentrated on urban planning in disaster times, building social infrastructure, and helping cities recover and re-emerge from COVID-19 more connected, more resilient, and more empowered to effect change locally.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/97-mary-rowe.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/97-mary-rowe.html

Resources

— Canadian Urban Institute: https://canurb.org/

— Bring Back Main Street: https://bringbackmainstreet.ca/

— CityTalk/Canada: https://canurb.org/citytalk-canada/

— “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History” by John Barry: http://www.johnmbarry.com/the_great_influenza__the_story_of_the_deadliest_pandemic_in_history__133171.htm

— “Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America” by John Barry: http://www.johnmbarry.com/rising_tide__the_great_mississippi_flood_of_1927_and_how_it_changed_america_58205.htm

— “The uses of disaster” by Rebecca Solnit: https://harpers.org/archive/2005/10/the-uses-of-disaster/

— “How to Survive a Disaster” by Rebecca Solnit: https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-how-to-survive-a-disaster/

Bio:

Mary is a leading urban advocate and civil society leader who has worked in cities across Canada and the United States. Mary comes to the Canadian Urban Institute with several years of experience as an urban advocate and community leader, including serving as Executive Vice President of the Municipal Art Society of New York (MASNYC), one of America’s oldest civic advocacy organizations focused on the built environment. A mid-career fellowship with the US-based blue moon fund led her to New Orleans where she worked with national philanthropy, governments and local communities to support rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina. Prior, Mary was President of the Canadian platform Ideas That Matter, a convening and publishing program based on the work of renowned urbanist Jane Jacobs. Mary has been a frequent contributor to national and international city-building programs, including UN Habitat and the World Urban Forum. She brings an extensive international network of practitioners from government, industry, community activism, and the city-building professions to strengthen CUI under her leadership.

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Johal, Am. “Post-Disaster Urbanism — with Mary Rowe.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, December 15, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/97-mary-rowe.html.

In this episode of Below the Radar, Brandon Yan, the executive director of Out on Screen, joins producers Fiorella Pinillos and Paige Smith to discuss his work in film education dialogue and fostering inclusive spaces for youth. Brandon speaks to supporting queer and trans youth in schools by bringing queer joy into classrooms, working collaboratively to push forward policy change, and reimagining the future of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Brandon also shares his path of embracing his identity as a queer, mixed-race person, and his experience running for city council in Vancouver.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/96-brandon-yan.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/96-brandon-yan.html

Resources

— Out on Screen: https://outonscreen.com/

— Vancouver Queer Film Festival: https://queerfilmfestival.ca/

— CBC article - I'm working to unlearn the racism I internalized as a biracial kid: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/unlearning-internalized-racism-1.5677387

— Study: “A Media-Based School Intervention to Reduce Sexual Orientation Prejudice…”: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/11/2447

Bio:

Brandon (he/him) has collaborated with the Ministry of Education, BC Teachers' Federation, UBC Faculty of Education, and the ARC Foundation to address the needs of LGBT2Q+ youth through policies and practices that foster inclusive and more supportive school environments. Growing up as a mixed-race queer kid in Langley, he never saw role models who looked like him on TV or in film, and if he did they were never queer. If they were queer, they were never Asian. Brandon understands that representation of diverse and complex intersecting identities is important, and it is this conviction and his experience as an activist, advocate, and educator that led him to run for Vancouver city council in 2018. Though he didn't win, it brought forward important conversations on representation, race, sexuality, and politics. He is currently the Executive Director of Out On Screen, which produces the Vancouver Queer Film Festival and the Out In Schools program.

Cite this episode:

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Pinillos, Fiorella, and Smith, Paige. “Celebrating Queer Joy — with Brandon Yan.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, December 14, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/96-brandon-yan.html.

Below the Radar’s Am Johal talks issues in urbanism and art as a research method with Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, and Helmut Weber of the cultural research collective, Urban Subjects, based in Vancouver and Vienna.

In this episode, they reflect on past arts exhibitions and programs they’ve facilitated on the urban experience, image politics, and visual representations of urbanism. Their work makes space for critical conversations about dispossession of land, the idea of a commons, the ‘right to the city’ in a contemporary context, the neoliberal commodification of housing, and more.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/95-urban-subjects.html

Transcript link coming soon!

Resources:

— Urban Subjects: http://www.urbansubjects.org/

— Artspeak Gallery: http://artspeak.ca/

— “How High Is the City, How Deep Is Our Love” essay by Jeff Derksen: https://fillip.ca/content/how-high-is-the-city-how-deep-is-our-love

— “The Right to the City” by Henri Lefebvre: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/henri-lefebvre-right-to-the-city#toc1

— The Vienna Model - Museum of Vancouver Exhibit: https://museumofvancouver.ca/vienna-model

— Alternatives to the Housing Crisis: Case Study Vienna - talk by Gabu Heindl at SFU: https://youtu.be/hLhDItRvBVY

Bio:

Urban Subjects is a cultural research collective formed in 2004 by Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, and Helmut Weber, based in Vancouver, Canada and Vienna, Austria. Together they develop interdisciplinary artistic projects focusing on global-urban issues, the texture of cities, and on civic imaginations. Urban Subjects do not work on a consensus model. Amongst others, they have organized the exhibition Not Sheep: New Urban Enclosures and Commons at Artspeak, Vancouver, in 2006 and participated in the conference Contrapolis; or Creativity and Enclosures in the Cities at Poortgebouw and NAI, Rotterdam organized by Marina Vishmidt, Jan van Eyck Academy, in 2008. They have collaborated with Vancouver Flying University on a public program regarding housing in Vancouver. In 2009 they devised and edited the book Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade, with a previously unpublished manuscript by Lefebvre (Fillip/Sternberg Press, 2009). Their essay on “The Spaces and Temporalities of Dual Power and Autogestion in Gramoven, Caracas” has been published in Waking Up from The Nightmare of Participation, edited by Nina Valerie Kolowratnik & Markus Miessen (Expodium, 2011). Collaboratively they produced Momentarily: Learning from Mega-events (Western Front, 2011) with Bik Van der Pol and Alissa Firth-Eagland. For WE: Vancouver at the Vancouver Art Gallery they wrote a manifesto concerning the historical endurance of the political imagination of revolution, a Manifesto for the Poetry of the Future, with geographer Neil Smith. They worked on the project “Filling the Weak Points” regarding autogestion and “researching the militant image”in cooperation with Kunstraum of Leuphana University Lüneburg and as artists in residence at the Leuphana Arts Program in 2012/2013. In 2014, they curated the exhibition “The Militant Image - Picturing What Is Already Going On” with Camera Austria, Graz, and conducted the workshop “Researching the Militant Image” as part of steirische herbst Academy 2014 . Currently they are working on the publication, “The Militant Image Reader” forthcoming in 2015 by Edition Camera Austria. In July 2015, they held a research residency at the EXPO in Milano, Italy.

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Johal, Am. “Urban Subjects — with Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen & Helmut Weber.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, December 7, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/95-urban-subjects.html.

SFU librarian Baharak Yousefi joins Am Johal on Below the Radar to discuss critical librarianship, interrogating the entrenched systems and structures of libraries. She speaks to issues around the way librarians are schooled, the commodification of knowledge, and the need to make libraries welcoming spaces to all.

Baharak also shares her love of books and culture that brought her to librarianship and talks about the popular One Book One SFU events she planned and hosted through the SFU Library. Am also asks her about her fondness for Vancouver’s West End and the neighbourhood’s quirky design gems.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/94-baharak-yousefi.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/94-baharak-yousefi.html

Resources

— CritLib: http://critlib.org/

— Baharak Yousefi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BaharakY

— #WestEndFonts: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23westendfonts&src=typed_query&f=live

— SFU Library: https://www.lib.sfu.ca/

— Fugitive Libraries: https://placesjournal.org/article/fugitive-libraries/

— One Book One SFU event recordings:

Maggie Nelson and Amber Dawn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6wsD9khaSQ

Ivan Coyote and Tegan Quin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs8OHEOMjeM

Eden Robinson and Cherie Dimaline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7-Hb693fJI&feature=youtu.be

Bio:

Baharak Yousefi has been peddling books in Vancouver for the past twenty-two years. She is a bookseller-turned-librarian and a refugee-turned-settler. Baharak is co-editor of Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership.

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Johal, Am. “ Critical Librarianship — with Baharak Yousefi.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, December 3, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/94-baharak-yousefi.html.

Barbara Holland is a leading community engagement scholar who has done extensive research in the areas of organizational change in higher education, service learning, and community-university partnerships. In this episode, she is in conversation with host Am Johal about the shifting landscape of community engagement and embedding engagement in the culture of the urban university as a method of scholarship, teaching, and learning.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/93-barbara-holland.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/93-barbara-holland.html

Resources

— Barbara A. Holland Collection for Service Learning and Community Engagement: https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/slce/

— The Maverick Minute: Barbara Holland and the Metropolitan University Mission: https://www.unomaha.edu/news/2018/04/the-maverick-minute-barbara-holland.php

— Metropolitan Universities Journal: https://www.cumuonline.org/metropolitan-universities-journal/

Bio:

Barbara A. Holland, Ph.D., is a professor, researcher and consultant recognized internationally for her scholarship and expertise on organizational change in higher education with a special focus on the strategic impacts of community engagement as a method of teaching, learning and research. Her current academic affiliations are Distinguished Community Engagement Professor of at University of Nebraska Omaha, and Senior Scholar at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and University of North Carolina Greensboro. She has served in senior academic administrative roles at several universities in the United States and Australia, held a visiting scholar role in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development headquarters for two years during the Clinton and Bush administrations, and was Executive Director of the federally-funded National Service-Learning Clearinghouse for seven years. The library collection, upon the closing of the Clearinghouse, was moved to the Criss Library at University of Nebraska Omaha in 2011 and is called The Barbara A. Holland Collection for Service-Learning and Community Engagement. For her many research publications and impacts on the field of engagement, including the “Holland Matrix,” Barbara was the fourth scholar awarded the Research Achievement Award from the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (2006). In 2008 she was named as one of the first two Honorary Fellows named by the Engagement Australia association. She was Executive Editor of Metropolitan Universities, the journal of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities 1998–2016 and continues to serve in editorial roles for three other refereed journals. Since its inception in 2006, she has served as a member of the National Advisory Panel for the Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement Classification program. Barbara is also a frequent keynote speaker at academic conferences and has been invited to be an in-depth consultant and adviser to many academic institutions across six nations. Barbara earned her Bachelor of Journalism and Master of Arts in Journalism at the University of Missouri, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Policy at the University of Maryland. In 2017, University of Nebraska Omaha awarded Barbara an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. She resides in Portland, Oregon.

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Johal, Am. “Community Engagement in Higher Education — with Barbara Holland.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, November 26, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/93-barbara-holland.html.

When Sobhana Jaya-Madhavan landed in Vancouver 25 years ago from Malaysia, she was told her foreign credentials would make it hard to find employment as a social worker and was encouraged to apply for minimum wage jobs. In this episode, Sobhana is in conversation with Am Johal about the joy of finding community in a new place — and the barriers to employment she experienced as a newcomer to Canada.

Sobhana tells stories from her journey as a social worker and public servant, sharing how her dedication to service and relationship-building led her to her current role as SFU’s Associate Vice-President, External Relations, where she liaises with governments and communities to help facilitate social inclusion and reconciliation initiatives at the university.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/92-sobhana-jaya-madhavan.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/92-sobhana-jaya-madhavan.html

SFU News: “SFU education champion walks the talk during her life journey”: https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2019/06/sfu-education-champion-walks-the-talk-during-her-life-journey-.html

Canadian Immigrant: SFU’s Sobhana Jaya-Madhavan leads with optimism: https://canadianimmigrant.ca/people/professionals/sfus-sobhana-jaya-madhavan-leads-with-optimism

Bio:

Born in Malaysia and raised in India, Sobhana has an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and a postgraduate degree in Social Work. Sobhana immigrated to Canada in 1995 and completed her doctoral coursework and candidacy exams in Child and Youth Care from the University of Victoria (UVic) and also taught the undergraduate Child Welfare Specialization Course at UVic. Sobhana worked with the Government of British Columbia serving in various front line and senior management positions for almost two decades. Sobhana worked with federal and provincial governments to address complex social issues, including poverty, child abuse and domestic violence. In 2017, Sobhana joined Simon Fraser University (SFU) as Associate Vice President, External Relations. Sobhana engages with all levels of government and diverse organizations and communities to strengthen relationships and partnerships. In addition, Sobhana is very involved with EDI and reconciliation initiatives at SFU. In 2019, Sobhana was the recipient of the Women Economic Forum’s ‘Woman of the Decade Award’ for championing education. Sobhana is passionate about the pursuit of peace in all spheres of life.

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Johal, Am. “On Arrival and Belonging — with Sobhana Jaya-Madhavan.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, November 24, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/92-sobhana-jaya-madhavan.html.

Below the Radar explores Lacanian theory with Lacan Salon President and SFU English Professor Clint Burnham. Clint speaks to how Lacan’s ideas are taken up in the digital age. Clint takes up Lacanian theories of the ‘unconscious,’ ‘extimacy,’ or ‘the split subject,’ as well as Žižek’s works, to unpack racism and microaggressions; intimacy and digital devices; and virtual interactions and teaching in pandemic-times.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/91-clint-burnham.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/91-clint-burnham.html

For this interview, Clint joined Am Johal to film a distanced conversation in the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre on SFU’s Vancouver campus. Watch the video version of this interview here: https://youtu.be/1cx6S0jx8dE

Resources:

— Lacan Salon: http://www.lacansalon.com/

— Clint Burnham: We don't know what we want when we're on the internet (and that's ok): https://youtu.be/WPExmWzljTU

— Book Launch: Alberto Toscano & Clint Burnham: https://soundcloud.com/sfuw-community...

— Clint Burnham: The Sublime Object of Edward Burtynsky: https://youtu.be/2e1ecaAnN0A

Bio:

Clint Burnham was born in Comox, British Columbia, which is on the traditional territory of the K’ómoks (Sathloot) First Nation, centred historically on kwaniwsam. He lives and teaches on the traditional ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including traditional territories of the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw), Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ), Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm), and Kwikwetlem (kʷikʷəƛ̓əm) Nations. Clint’s research interests include cultural studies (especially film and popular culture), contemporary poetry, and theory (especially psychoanalysis and Marxism). He is the author of book-length studies of Steve McCaffery, Fredric Jameson, and Slavoj Žižek. He is also the author of numerous books of poetry and fiction; his novel Smoke Show was published by Arsenal Pulp in 2005, his most recent book of poetry, Pound at Guantánamo, was published in 2016 by Talonbooks, and his latest fiction collection, Stories for my iPad, is under contract with Anvil. Clint has written on art in ESPACE art actuel, fillip, Flash Art, Camera Austria, The Vancouver Sun, Canadian Art, Artforum, and The Globe and Mail. He co-edited Digital Natives (Other Sights) with Lorna Brown, From Text to Txting (Indiana) with Paul Budra, and an issue of Canadian Literature on 21st century poetics with Christine Stewart; he is the author of The Only Poetry that Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing (Arsenal Pulp). He has been a member of the SFU English department since 2007; before that he taught at UBC, Capilano College, and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.

Cite this episode:

Johal, Am. “The Digital Unconscious and Decolonizing Lacan — with Clint Burnham.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, November 23, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/91-clint-burnham.html.