Remaking belief

The facts are there. That to seek asylum is a human right, written into international law in the United Nations Refugee Convention in 1951. That the nation-state of Australia is a signatory to this law, bound by the Convention to provide asylum those who need it. That the vast majority of people who arrive by … Continue reading →

Through a pulpy prism

Is it just me, or are the retro-revival cycles getting shorter? I was at the Pulp show in Sydney last night and it felt as though Pulp’s seventies aesthetic in the nineties had skipped a generation and come to land on the noughteen bodies of people who I am not quite old enough to have … Continue reading →

Psychic resistance

‘Opposition takes its first steps from a footing of complicity.’ — Complicities: The intellectual and apartheid, Mark Sanders, 9 ‘How does a sense of woundedness become the basis for a sense of identity?’ — States of injury: Power and freedom in late modernity, Wendy Brown ‘If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it.’ … Continue reading →