°Household frontier

August 25, 2009

An excerpt, still in draft, of “The Household Frontier,” written with Melinda Cooper:

Filed under: Biowar + Laboratories + Borders + Escape + Rights
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°District 9


The alert | and Alive in Joberg, the short film it was based on:

Filed under: Biowar + Internment Camps + Screen
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°Economies of race, queer households and the crisis

August 14, 2009

Here’s the spiel for a workshop, as part of “Seeing Through the Emperor’s New Clothes,” a conference on the GFC in September:

Filed under: Biowar + Laboratories + Borders + Memes + Marx + Keynes + Sydney
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°Meet King Joe (1949)

August 8, 2009


“… the greatest production team in the history of the world.”

Filed under: Labour + Nationalism
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°Trespass

July 23, 2009

Apropos previous notes on passing:

Filed under: Biowar + Borders + Constitution + Escape + Movement
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°Welfare/Warfare

July 21, 2009


A short film by Eleanor Gilbert (via WGAR) of a brief protest outside the Australian Minister for Indigenous Affairs’ office, and inside Centrelink (welfare office).

Where Barb tries to figure out a way - short of begging and dumpsterdiving - around the Basics Card’s controls on movement, on eating, and on housing. And doesn’t.

Filed under: Biowar + Borders + Eating + Melbourne
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°Contract’s end

June 27, 2009

In Wake in Fright, a man in very white suit tries to get out of town, end of contract time. Whiter than white, thinks he has shaken off that hint of indentured labour.

Filed under: Nationalism + Precarious precarity + Screen + Universities
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