Yannick Desranleau
@ydesranleau.bsky.social
Artist @ Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau. Assistant Professor, Sculpture and Expanded Media, University of Alberta. PhD student, Concordia University. Former part of Seripop and AIDS Wolf.
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He was a pure manipulator; his brain, if he had ever had one, must have early oozed along into the muscles of his fingers.
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
He was a pure manipulator; his brain, if he had ever had one, must have early oozed along into the muscles of his fingers.
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This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week.
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
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I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week.
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
An update on the Suda firing at the (LOL) PhART, with its Canadian ramifications. I would want someone cross-analyzing this with Gaétanne Verna's recent firing, as a pulse check on the working conditions in CDN art institutions paulwells.substack.com/p/national-g...
National Gallery of Canada: coda and prelude
A former director of an Ottawa institution has a bad week
paulwells.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
An update on the Suda firing at the (LOL) PhART, with its Canadian ramifications. I would want someone cross-analyzing this with Gaétanne Verna's recent firing, as a pulse check on the working conditions in CDN art institutions paulwells.substack.com/p/national-g...
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Wow- that’s a cold slap in the shoulder for our arts communities. Looks like the even though there was a pre-budget request of $140 million.. what was apportioned $6 million. That’s a monumental spending cut.
Budget fédéral | Les milieux artistiques désiraient 140 millions de $ de plus pour le Conseil des arts du Canada, qui n’en recevra que 6.
Ottawa soutient les festivités plutôt que la création
www.ledevoir.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Wow- that’s a cold slap in the shoulder for our arts communities. Looks like the even though there was a pre-budget request of $140 million.. what was apportioned $6 million. That’s a monumental spending cut.
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After years of staff complaints and high attrition, Gaëtane Verna is no longer the executive director at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Sources alleged that she had a track record of screaming at employees in meetings and lashing out at anyone whose curatorial opinions contrasted with hers.
Wexner Center Director Departs Amid Staff Complaints
Gaëtane Verna is "stepping away from her role," said an email from Ohio State University's provost reviewed by Hyperallergic.
hyperallergic.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I wonder how much reworking and maintaining the canada council portal costs, maybe add that into grants since it's just a very fancy lottery system with an onerous application process
October 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I wonder how much reworking and maintaining the canada council portal costs, maybe add that into grants since it's just a very fancy lottery system with an onerous application process
The exhibition that we curated "Against the Tyranny of Reality" is opening today at Musée d'art de Joliette! It's the third instalment of this touring show that includes 18 artist working with prop performance and camp for video.
www.museejoliette.org/expositions/...
www.museejoliette.org/expositions/...
Envers la tyrannie du réel – Matérialité et exubérance camp en vidéo-performance | Musée d’art de Joliette
www.museejoliette.org
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The exhibition that we curated "Against the Tyranny of Reality" is opening today at Musée d'art de Joliette! It's the third instalment of this touring show that includes 18 artist working with prop performance and camp for video.
www.museejoliette.org/expositions/...
www.museejoliette.org/expositions/...
New Canada Council Portal Update: What a nightmare. Tiny text boxes? No way to back track on the application without starting from the beginning and saving each section? The French portal is mostly all in English? Support documentation details limited to 255 CHARACTERS? What is going on?
October 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
New Canada Council Portal Update: What a nightmare. Tiny text boxes? No way to back track on the application without starting from the beginning and saving each section? The French portal is mostly all in English? Support documentation details limited to 255 CHARACTERS? What is going on?
It's been really difficult to integrate the UofA community already, and witnessing this happening to a colleague in the building next door where I get my coffee (and btw Florence is a fabulous person irl) just makes my heart sink
"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression
I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...
cfe.torontomu.ca
September 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It's been really difficult to integrate the UofA community already, and witnessing this happening to a colleague in the building next door where I get my coffee (and btw Florence is a fabulous person irl) just makes my heart sink
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“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
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me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines
September 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines
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This is what I said about Kirk-style conservative "debate" culture a few months ago, and I still believe it.
They're never actually debating a belief. They just want to dominate others, but they're so pathetic that the only way they can do so is in this very specific format where they're allowed to use the three rhetorical tricks they've memorized.
September 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is what I said about Kirk-style conservative "debate" culture a few months ago, and I still believe it.
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“There’s a reason he debated college students, not college professors” - Will Menaker
September 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“There’s a reason he debated college students, not college professors” - Will Menaker
Well, it feels so bizarre to say, but I just got my measles booster-- thank god being part of the university, the campus clinic made it a breeze. Alberta currently has the highest infection rates in North America and nothing indicates the situation will get better.
September 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Well, it feels so bizarre to say, but I just got my measles booster-- thank god being part of the university, the campus clinic made it a breeze. Alberta currently has the highest infection rates in North America and nothing indicates the situation will get better.
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Trump's declaration that radical right extremism is justified as a response to the left will likely be heard all over the far right as a clear invitation to violence.
“That statement is basically a permission slip," one tracker of right wing extremism tells me.
newrepublic.com/article/2004...
“That statement is basically a permission slip," one tracker of right wing extremism tells me.
newrepublic.com/article/2004...
September 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Trump's declaration that radical right extremism is justified as a response to the left will likely be heard all over the far right as a clear invitation to violence.
“That statement is basically a permission slip," one tracker of right wing extremism tells me.
newrepublic.com/article/2004...
“That statement is basically a permission slip," one tracker of right wing extremism tells me.
newrepublic.com/article/2004...
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The right using Kirk as a lightning rod to usher the system into more violence against the left draws into focus how little institutional power the left wields. You think they could get away w/ this if there were unions ready to shut the country down for more legal protection against violence?
September 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The right using Kirk as a lightning rod to usher the system into more violence against the left draws into focus how little institutional power the left wields. You think they could get away w/ this if there were unions ready to shut the country down for more legal protection against violence?
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People are ‘shocked’ when I say things like ‘who knows if I’ll have a job in two years’… meanwhile…
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
People are ‘shocked’ when I say things like ‘who knows if I’ll have a job in two years’… meanwhile…
6 years old and still cute
September 8, 2025 at 4:47 AM
6 years old and still cute
Allez lire cette chronique décrivant l'homogénéité du paysage politique québécois et sa tendance autoritaire
OPINION I « À l’approche de la rentrée parlementaire, les nationalistes réactionnaires entrent dans la dernière phase de leur plan pour inféoder la société civile à l’État. »
#polqc
La nouvelle chronique de Judith Lefebvre est en ligne sur Pivot 👇
#polqc
La nouvelle chronique de Judith Lefebvre est en ligne sur Pivot 👇
Le nationalisme québécois ou le fascisme patient – Pivot
À l’approche de la rentrée parlementaire, les nationalistes réactionnaires entrent dans la dernière phase de leur plan pour inféoder la société civile à l’État.
pivot.quebec
September 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Allez lire cette chronique décrivant l'homogénéité du paysage politique québécois et sa tendance autoritaire
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Carney’s first 100 days: Unpacking the new prime minister’s ‘disappointing move to the right’ with Linda McQuaig: ricochet.media/politics/car...
Carney’s first 100 days: Unpacking the new prime minister’s ‘disappointing move to the right’ with Linda McQuaig
‘If it comes to a U.S. invasion, no amount of military spending on our part is going to defend us from that’
ricochet.media
August 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Carney’s first 100 days: Unpacking the new prime minister’s ‘disappointing move to the right’ with Linda McQuaig: ricochet.media/politics/car...
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NEW: CBC agreed to follow an Israeli censorship order on board a Jordanian aid drop flight last week.
Israel supposedly claimed filming Gaza would “jeopardize flights.”
ITV News was also on a Jordanian flight, but filmed Gaza from above for all to see.
www.readthemaple.com/cbc-agreed-t...
Israel supposedly claimed filming Gaza would “jeopardize flights.”
ITV News was also on a Jordanian flight, but filmed Gaza from above for all to see.
www.readthemaple.com/cbc-agreed-t...
CBC Agreed To Follow Israeli Censorship Order On Gaza Aid Drop Flight
According to the CBC, Israel said filming Gaza from above would “jeopardize flights.”
www.readthemaple.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
NEW: CBC agreed to follow an Israeli censorship order on board a Jordanian aid drop flight last week.
Israel supposedly claimed filming Gaza would “jeopardize flights.”
ITV News was also on a Jordanian flight, but filmed Gaza from above for all to see.
www.readthemaple.com/cbc-agreed-t...
Israel supposedly claimed filming Gaza would “jeopardize flights.”
ITV News was also on a Jordanian flight, but filmed Gaza from above for all to see.
www.readthemaple.com/cbc-agreed-t...
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we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid
I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.
August 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid
They published some pretty solid series -- The Apology Line being the most memorable one-- but the production values were so high that somehow the non-fiction content seemed fake? It's hard to explain but definitely is an aesthetic phenomenon worth exploring. Oh and the network ID was cringe lol
Fair to say that the prestige podcast era is donezo dead over finished techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/a...
Amazon shuts down Wondery podcast studio, cuts 110 jobs | TechCrunch
Despite securing big names in the business, the company is now shifting its strategy in an effort to better compete with rivals like Spotify and YouTube.
techcrunch.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
They published some pretty solid series -- The Apology Line being the most memorable one-- but the production values were so high that somehow the non-fiction content seemed fake? It's hard to explain but definitely is an aesthetic phenomenon worth exploring. Oh and the network ID was cringe lol