ESSAYS

NOD

NOD is a chapbook and also the liner notes to the sound recording NOD, combining poetry, lyrics and an essay to describe alienation and addiction as the inevitable result of extreme consciousness, and the concept of apocalypse as love's radical response to the resultant personal and cultural denial.

Tensions in Conversion:
Ecstasy, Homeostasis, Apocalypse and Apostasy

Excerpts from an essay completed after curtailing a disaster Masters at the Toronto School of Theology.
(1993 - pdf, 71kb)


The Crisis in Kosovo

Reflections on the invasion of Kosovo by the US and NATO.

Media Nomads

Why Does Your Message Belong in More than One Medium? Questioning Mcluhan. An essay submitted to the Canada Council sponsored Inter-Arts Review.

Uncommon Finalities: Explorations in Cacophony and Rigidity

A brief essay and reflections accompanying a series of improvisational workshops (Paradigmalogos Sessions) exploring the relationship of music and improvisation to evolutionary theory.






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