Maria Cichosz

Empathy involves placing oneself in the shoes of another and taking in their perspective, seeing as they do and feeling with them. Sympathy requires us only to feel for another from the outside. But even that is lacking in cultural conversations when it comes to addiction. At best, we have pity and compassion for those others who use…

In January 1967, Yousuf Karsh photographed Marshall McLuhan inside the Royal Ontario Museum’s recently opened hall of invertebrate fossils. In the portrait, McLuhan sits before a bank of telephones mounted on a dimly lit wall resembling a seabed, rakishly holding the camera’s gaze, his smile teasing some tantalizing secret. The innovative exhibition offered visitors touch-friendly…