Madness of militarism reprise (run run run)
The CIA brags about the US being the largest weapons exporter/producer – Psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est? From their very own world factbook. that one browses over coffee…
Tag: gripes
Ali France wins Australia over Peter Dutton.
. Maybe the worst thing about the Trump-effect will be things like: – the resuscitation of the liberals in Canada… – the unification of the Australian middle of the roa…
Revisiting 20 years of Trinkets part 7
Here was a curio – a blogpost filler from September 2005 – a negative review of Critique of Exotica by Narcus Breem in 2001, with my reply at…
semi feudal cyber colonialism.
Cyber feudalism, techno corvée, or semi feudal cyber colonialism. Why feudal now? because the resistance levels are in an ebb the oppressive apparatus access tried and true modalities…
Boy Scout – redux from 2018
Boy Scout . The image above is on repeat – uncanny since now they’ve all got patched in – the ‘same’ publicity photo was again released by HS…
Cut from freedom
. There is no retrospective model of a lost ‘American freedom’ that can be sustained in front of the evidence of Trump and his diametrical channelling of the…
The Entanglement
The Entanglement If the 18th century gave us the Enlightenment, which was a mixed blessing, as they say, what are we to make of what the 21st century…
Mercenary fishing for academic vanity
Message to a friend on publishing ‘requests’/offers: Increasingly colleagues who publish an article in any good journal soon get an unsolicited email from some generic named (unhea…
Novel returns
The novel is a historical and autobiographically filtered indulgence, yet the making of worlds can sweep you away for a day or a week. Right to choose, needless…
Sloganize this…
Against descriptive abstracto-clerical abstentionism, Down with soft-time precariosectionallerationism, Forget hard core solidarnozaprojevognosticism, Exotico-vanguardianistas running remedi…
Black Swan
“Willem de Vlamingh was sent in 1696 to search for two VOC ships, Ridderschap van Holland (Knighthood of Holland), which had gone missing on its way to Batavia…
If we had time to study, we might study this…
I was asked yesterday how I might explain the attraction of current right wing ideas and autocracy…: >> How do you explain the attraction of current right wing…
NIAS gone!
This is not at all good. Announcement: NIAS is closing down! Courage, cleverness and tenacity have not been enough. After years of spirited resistance, it is now time…
Elephant in the room: Suzi Quatro’s Primitive Love is better than Fleetwood Mac’s rip-off Tusk.
Convince me otherwise. 1973 for Quatro, 1979 for F.Mac. 1973 1979
Goofy was a plant.
“one half of them who perish in London, dye of Phthisical and Pulmonic distempers; that the inhabitants are never free from Coughs” John Evelyn 1661 The biggest trick…
Pawn or War Crime? – you choose who gets voted off the island (two votes allowed per person)
Secret weapons sales (not so secret) and fancy dress panto season – really beyond the pale (white supremacy evil tricksters all). Justification here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/1…
Depression (not mine, ours)
Depression: I am no expert on depression, at all, but I also note that over the last two decades it has become a more visible topic of discussion…
Rejection journal.
Found in my notebooks from 2019: a proposal. Journal for Rejected Papers of Persistence and Perseverance Aims and scope. This journal, set up to the standards…
Assange and how truth does not set you free
******************** On thursday 9th Dec 2021 the first 15 minutes of my lecture on Media outlined the reasons why the extradition of Julian Assange should be opposed and…
Soapbox: on slips and trips.
In the business of selling cultures for quids, and other random translations Once upon a long ago, there was a time when I was more rebelliously young, and…
Class – and critique – in Bad Marxism, poking fun.
I was looking something up and stumbled upon a quote of me that I did not recognise – that class ‘does not make much sense’. I am pretty…
The Corporate Menagerie – Thesis Eleven
An article on the malaise that afflicts the UK university system, applicable to the US and Australia too possibly, not wholly tongue-in-cheek and riffing on true stories. Everyone…
Honky Tonk University
As I was chatting to Tony who wanted an update, here it for economies sake for the family and friends too: we are in week 12 of homeschooling.…
exoticism, revolutionary tourism, solidarity
What does solidarity look like? There have not been enough in the way of critiques of revolutionary tourism, of the exoticist trap of romanticising rebel movements abroad while…