°Tourism

November 23, 2009

A fragment from the most recent piece:

… The prevalence of pink versions of national flags from Pride marches in London to Mardis Gras in Sydney, along with the prominence given to the involvement of military and police at such events, makes nationalism more than a pre-condition of the demand for rights – it literally defines them. Given the eminence of this, alongside the political importance given to calls for the legalisation of gay marriage, adoption, or access to reproductive technologies, whatever rights these seem to accomplish, they also amount to overwhelming displays of re-productive allegiance. Rituals of obedience are no more emphatic than where that loyalty is at its most suspect, where desire and the future must contend with the most vagrant and fugitive of prospects, and the legal form of value with the problem of its reinscription or imposition. …

And “Under the Beach, the Barbed Wire”, which explains something of the iconic (and political) work the figure of the lifeguard does in these parts.

Filed under: Biowar + Borders + Sydney
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°Tomorrow Morrow Land

September 23, 2009

The view from my bedroom window, woken at (I think) around 5am by sirens and car alarms going off, the smell and sounds of the dustorm rolling in. Shot through flywire with the phone, so not a great quality - but captured that apocalyptic red sky. Much better pics here. Mad Maxxxxx indeed. But if you want to see how it rolled in from Broken Hill, amazing.

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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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°Landlordism

May 26, 2009

Yesterday morning, the Australian Minister for Indigenous Affairs announced that since the Tangentyere Council had not agreed to grant the government a 40-year lease over the lands around Alice Springs, those lands would be “compulsorily acquired.”

Filed under: Biowar + Sydney
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°Australian plenitude, anxiously so

February 2, 2009

In my current state, which is thankfully and to an extent ghettoised (which is to say, protected from such things), Australia Day - otherwise known as Invasion Day - took a while to filter through. Sydney, of course, is all (to borrow a grim joke) finance capital and race war.

Filed under: Nationalism + Biowar + Sydney
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°…

November 23, 2008


Octet - Euro vs Dollar (Pilooski Edit)
Elvis Presley - Crawfish (Pilooski Edit)

And, All Tomorrow’s Parties …

(With thanks to B, Disco Delicious, and S.)

Filed under: mixtapes + Sydney
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°Emergent gameplay

September 8, 2008

The best – or possibly, the easiest – way to describe all this is that it’s structured like a computer game. There are levels, each one more difficult than the previous: successively bigger and nastier monsters to kill or evade but, also, if one is quick enough to find them, things placed around the various levels to help you get through them (medipacks, BFGs, friendly scientists, and so on).

Filed under: Precarious precarity + Laboratories + materialism-aleatory + Sydney
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