This 140-page book brings together a collection of writings about the essential work of Canadian media artist b.h. Yael addressing issues of power and belonging, Palestine and remembering, gender roles and activism. The ideas and locations featured in Yael's films and videos reverberate through these responsive texts by fellow artists, filmmakers, writers, teachers, and activists, providing new and startling perspectives. The book also includes an interview conducted by edito

In this chapter, Jacqueline Wernimont builds on the evolution of tracking technologies since the renaissance and hones in on her critique of data collection as an imperial, gendered, racialized, and corporate methodology of control. “Know thyself has long been cover for self-regulation and wealth generation in the service of the nation-state and other institutional entities,” she writes. Her critique of the dictum ‘know thyself’ as the driving force behind the growing trend t