https://brennanmccracken.com Brennan McCracken Sat, 12 Feb 2022 22:08:56 +0000 https://brennanmccracken.com en http://brennanmccracken.com/Selected-Writing Sat, 12 Feb 2022 22:08:56 +0000 Brennan McCracken 419526 BRENNAN MCCRACKENMy writing has appeared in Maisonneuve, Musicworks, This Magazine, Visual Arts News, and The Coast, Halifax’s alt-weekly, where I was a contributing writer. In 2020, I joined the jury of the Polaris Music Prize.Reviewson Jordan Abel’s Empty Spaces, The Goose, vol. 20. no. 2, 2025 on The Inferno (trans. Lorna Goodison), Montreal Review of Books, Spring 2025.  on MUTEK – HYBRID – Cutting Edge Canada, Musicworks no. 139, Spring/Summer 2021on Everyseeker – Emergent Response, Musicworks no. 237, Fall 2020 on Eva Crocker’s All I Ask | Maisonneuve on Jordan Moffatt’s U is for Upside-Down House | Maisonneuve on Billy-Ray Belcourt’s NDN Coping Mechanisms | Maisonneuve on OBEY Convention XII | Musicworks + Ongoing record reviews, Musicworks, 2020-present  Essays With the Floe | MaisonneuveAgainst the Stream | Maisonneuve Profiles and reporting Debby Friday’s energy potential | Musicworks Markus Floats’ motion emotion | Musicworks Glenn Copeland’s Musical Rebirth | This MagazineCover Story: Zamani | The Coast Arielle Twist’s becoming | The Coast   Joseph Shabason’s patient unravelling | Musicworks  Rae Spoon’s nature of things | The Coast Dog Day’s not over yet | The Coast Nap Eyes’ subjective science | The Coast Ursula Johnson vs. everyday cultural appropriation | Visual Arts NewsJeremy Dutcher: A beautiful archive of our people | The Coast   Cover Story: Charlotte Day Wilson | The Coast Fiver’s audible history | The Coast Lido Pimienta is lit | The Coast OBEY X marks the spot | The Coast Comedy of sharers | The Coast Destroyer’s solo creation | The Coast Old and Weird go their own way | The Coast    BRENNAN MCCRACKENMy writing has appeared in Maisonneuve, Musicworks, This Magazine, Visual Arts News, and The Coast, Halifax’s alt-weekly, where I was a... http://brennanmccracken.com/Brennan-McCracken Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:34:03 +0000 Brennan McCracken 272456 BRENNAN MCCRACKENmccracken.brennan@gmail.com PhD candidate, Department of English, Concordia UniversityI am a researcher and writer with interests in modern and contemporary fiction; postcolonial studies; critical theory; and the environmental humanities.  My dissertation, titled “Textual turbulence: Settler colonialism and the refiguration of ecology in the contemporary novel,” examines an emerging literary imagination of settler-colonial ecologies through formal expressions of impermanence, obfuscation, and separation. Through close readings of novels by Indigenous writers working in the settler states of Canada and Australia, I argue that these formal strategies—which I track across figurations of ice, haze, and chasms—index how the language of ecology has underwritten techniques of state control, surveillance, and disposession.  My work is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. +  Curriculum Vitae Selected Writing BRENNAN MCCRACKENmccracken.brennan@gmail.com PhD candidate, Department of English, Concordia UniversityI am a researcher and writer with interests in modern and...