°Pogroms pt2 - nomadi, clandestini, rifiuti

May 22, 2008


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°Pogroms, pt1 - Amakwere-kwere


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°Enjoying democracy

April 15, 2008

From Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas, by Gillian Cowlishaw, in the chapter titled “Enjoying Democracy”:

the paraphernalia of everyday life on a station was a compelling element in the pastoralists’ domination of their untutored workers; the mastery of pragmatic technology confirmed their grasp of the meaning of the world. It is technologies of governance, systems of political representation, of funding and accountability and practices known as democracy, which are now being taught with the same assumptions as were attached to farming technologies in an earlier time. These are the necessary tools for the Aboriginal people’s future, an invariant reality, a morally neutral common sense. Aborigines are now being enticed into exercising the same rights as whitefellas, rights which are supposed to ensure that we are all equal citizens.

Sharply ironic.

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°Dear Fellow Australians

April 3, 2008

Shannon deli-pointed me to some amazing, disturbing photographs. So I wandered over and perused his blog. Even more disturbing, but nevertheless excellent stuff: Buttress O’Kneel’s Dear Fellow Australians: An Independent Inquiry into Australian Values. Posted some time ago, but I hadn’t seen it until now. The kind of thing that makes me edge toward a panic attack, sweating. You can start here, a remix of audio from, as these moments have come to be called, Tampa and Cronulla. Or you can stream it until you vomit.

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°Reconciling one’s self

March 25, 2008

An extract from Mbembe’s “Passages to Freedom: The Politics of Racial Reconciliation in South Africa” (Public Culture, 20:1, 2008):

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°Work legalises

March 13, 2008

“Whomever lives and works here belongs here. ”

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°Frontiers, contracts and race

March 6, 2008

Three texts - as is obvious, written at the same time (August-September 2007), and which unwrap as an onion might: “Notes on the Frontiers and Borders of the Postcolony” (in the new Sarai Reader: Frontiers as a pdf, though there’s also a hardcopy of the edition); “The Failure of Political Theology” (a review of Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony and Forrest Hylton’s, Evil Hour in Colombia) at metamute; and “The Materialisation of Race in Multiculture”, in darkmatter’s new edition, Race/Matter. The last of these is the most pithy, but they neverthless form something of a trilogy, written as they were under the shock of the Intervention.

[Pocket’s remix of Kristin Hersh’s Slippershell, just because I’m enjoying that combination of squishynote earcandy and guitar/voice earbleed right now. It’s a compelling mix. Northsea’s remix is kind of ok, but doesn’t push it, really. And the flakeout remix is, well, a soporific.]

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