°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:


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°Meet King Joe (1949)

August 8, 2009


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


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°Trespass

July 23, 2009

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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.


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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.


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°It’s all remix

June 26, 2009


Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop (T&T Version)
Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin’ Something
Rihanna - Don’t Stop the Music
Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa
Rihanna vs Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop Billy Jean [vid]
Rihanna vs Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop the Music [vid]
Moymoy Palaboy lipsynch it … and more.


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°Ecologies of war

June 22, 2009

Mike Hill and Tom Cohen, “Black Swans and Pop-up Militias: War and the ‘Re-rolling’ of Imagination”, Global South, 3:1 2009:

The key strokes and strikes by which we introduce an open dossier on “war” in its visible and invisible dimensions will also, clearly, be those of the typographic “key”—of the writing of tele-polemeology codes, war machines, and in the wars latent in critical impasses today, as a certain mutation has begun for which the global credit collapse may be, at once, mere catalyst and symptom.


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