The furnished mouth is second empire - full to the brim and maybe overflowing. So no more submissions sorry. Please contact Anastomoo at AnastomooATyahooDOTcomDOTau if you wanna have a chat or whatever but after an update to come I won't be publishing anything for a while. Thanx to everyone for getting involved - numbers are good, length of stays is increasing. Still not as popular as you all were in high school but we all have to grow up sometime. As the Marickville mauler said - "I luv youse all". And so with that, i farewell strangers and friends alike, untill upon heath we meet when the hurly burly's done. Volume 4: Open Issue ![]() Volume 3: Recession Poetics ![]() Volume 2: Handwritten ![]() Volume 1: Anastomoo ![]() Anastomoo is edited by Jesse Shipway, Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Tasmania. His writing has appeared in journals including Mudlark, Wood s Lot, The Page, Beard of Bees, Island, Australian Literary Studies, Journal of Genocide Research, Cultural Studies Review, Eureka Street, Westerly, Recours Au Poeme, (Poem as Last Resort), Architectural Review (Australia). He lives in Hobart, Tasmania. ALL SHOWS ARE POPULAR Art by Dan Ivec ![]() Holly Day Last Night of the Vampire Dog vampire dogs are scared of the sunlight dig deep holes in the garden that go far underground, wait until they hear the first crickets begin to chirp, emerge from their tombs to shake off the wet sloppy mud. jackrabbits don’t recognize the scent of a vampire dog as that of a dog, they stand still in the moonlight too confused to run as their doom creeps nearer—no need to put the long- legged critters under any complicated thrall—jackrabbits are just too stupid to run. Suckling the neck of a fresh-caught hare, the vampire dog pulls the corpse back home, the long legs of the jackrabbit stretch far and drag through the mud, leaving twin ruts all the way down. in the morning, hunters will see the blood and the trail and find the deep hole where the vampire dog sleeps. they’ll plug the hole with gasoline- soaked newspaper and set fire to the tomb but morning is too far away to worry about right now. ![]() Floyd P Lawson was Born july 12, 1992. hailz from a small parish in Grange Hill, Jamaica. Lived in Miami from the age of 7 throughout my adolescents wherein he attended the University of Florida. His prose (sic) is influenced predominately by Lord Byron, Lord Tennyson, Aldous Huxley, and Shakespeare. Floyd P Lawson Heather He kissed her Tongued her down to follow up her desert words With a lick of whetted conscience-wit slick: Slackening her resolve, as lust comes usurping love From this warm hearth on the heather. Oh what an exercise in the comether! --FPL Stead Thy Conquest "I've been behind closed lips, where even silver-tongue Casanova cannot slip himself in But now am barred until a riddle be solved: 'whither is font that Adam sired our sire's in? If you kiss, you must not let go 'til the riddle be solved and the fonts maiden climax springs What irony be this, that for lips to unlock, the proprietress demands I lip-lock herein She buss's me a way unto Heartlings thorough, fares athwart tongues papillae: 'Dowsabel, amour, lover, throb-of-heart', I asked her to suffer me leave ere I rapine But with come-hither glances she motions my property to stay Now eyes say what tongue-tied air may, 'There's entry untrodden that trod you may' On those words was my conquest stead; 'til I see Adam- I'll Conquest every eve of day!'" --FPL The itinerant Environ me above with eyes as I fly beneath the sky; Swimming the glades to be mired in the laughs of gay blades; Exert efforts into breathing as I mount Everest. My eyne is my still moving Baedeker: still on the same page Aye on the bay eyeing every bit of décor on the plage I have no shoes to walk in, Lo! to my posterity whom like The cernuous lily blooms an ill-got aplomb seeking the tomb. My strain starts low, rapping a 'Bomb!' Hoping to hap upon life's tome, Which opened they'll counterfeit death in a swoon- Upon seeing Life's face they'll resolve right then to die! Oh the Theophanous events I've been subject to; Live with the sun and die with the eremitic moon-- The one making sun of day the other moonlights the swansong lay. I see Him as the blind man sees the sun-doubtless He be love, I'm unbeholden in his Son's warm embrace…I sigh heavens way The patine of a sage I've incurred to my regret; My sagacity has wizened this brow- In these lines are writ mother nature's apologias to Father Time. " Tick you mad at your sons, inconstant father- knowing not when to stay. Need you wither and wrinkle my beauties of May All those worthy Caesar's we wrought, yet on you clocked them to clay. Each hour I do beset beauty's brow with lines, wherein, Adam's sin do obey. Run you till may, but on these Adams Eve's drop of sin will I slay." I discern an exhaust betook hawk, fagged out in yon brook With claws deep in discourse with a salmon's flesh- "Belay, aery fiend, hunger isn't regulated by thous stomach", peals the flesh "Mammock me and may malice mock you with a morbid gibe: Be you slave to thous swallowing grave, that pit where death may be in vein. Deathless I be till death lessens thee, for I shall Pester thou'st knave as my flesh festers a pestilence -awakened by the grave- Spreading from entrails to your, bowless, accipitral domain. Au Vol!" --FPL ![]() George Djuric Tshegofatso Seboni :::::::::::::::::::: WEldon Sandusky ![]() “CAILLET STREET” ©2009 Down the alley we go Davie Duncan my first Romance, then Allen Connoisseurs always Treasures waiting, hiding People of the world. My mother’s on aspirin Brother to be gone soon. My father’s drinks And collapses in the Alley. And she’d go Look to try to win. I try to win and my Wife and girls do the Same cycle. And if They all never find Anything—they looked— In the alley where all The People of the World gather. At night in slight whispers Of him who was there Now maybe a can. At some stolen lust Now a curious pile of Newspapers. And there, Now a warped Garden hose that can Kill! ![]() “LARRY LOOPER AND ME GO UP IN THE TOWER” ©2009 Pioneers hail, we two Through the vacancy of Lubbock High School. Pioneers, Silver Spurs An old door burgundy Varnished staircase Various individuals chained There from a pep rally. A storm Shelley. Hail. Asses low and Winding Wordsworth Finding fickle fetishes Of wooden ham presses Mustaches of Mexicans Mad fury fast Up and Up and there Ah! Sans Merci the Huge Bronze Albatross The Pioneer, I say, Alans Sans Merci. The Bell , a huge big. Curve. From up there Texas Tech visible . Mystery. Ice. Coleridge,solid Grades of Sheets of Ice. A Couple in the Bushes across the Street. A damn illusion. Fighting fantasy Then the door locks there’s the Principal someone knows typical Romantics a and b only ALANS SANS MERCI!! Poe across the Atlantic That incredible Raven. Nevermore Larry, Sandy. Do not dissect Science. A thing of beauty and On into Franklin Rational Germans Or better you… Are you thinking or Just what? ![]() “THE PARADE OF FISHERMEN” ©2009 Picture a little JF Kennedy Vis-à-vis Channel 9 Divorced man out From the old HOMESTEAD §9.04 New Jersey Stats. Vol. 9171 Wis. 348 My battleline from Brockbank to San Mateo To Arizona to California To Wisconsin. Chain of Evidence. (see e.g. Chair and Door By Winthrop Jones. Dunlop 1998 p. 10) Merges compressed Digital dog Overlap to a NAPA Yellow and blue vinyl Chair Exxon style. And I sit here In the window Now only ten years Hence, only a Dash in the line From there, only Another popgun event In the sequence Of the Chain of the Door and Chair ready Ready any second to move For habeas corpus, J.Edwards v. Sandusky CA-3- 84-1156-R in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Dallas Division. Filed July 31, 1984. II Motion DENIED—Bang, Whoops. And now Ladies and Gentlemen…!!! The sequel to the Series “Money & Love” On location here At the gas station. Frame, Frame, Frame. Atrophy to Dysgenesis to disabled to Vegetable to the ve-ee-ee-ry Atom itself-H2-Bomb DNA staircase and rungs-Wave. Voila Transform. DISMISS. Michael Goertzen ![]() an asphodel's day card the far wrote, a hand from where I stood, applied stem cells to worn tongues, a few affectionate words, bruised fruit, nice enough, you and I and a love in some order, sacharine overbearance, a fulfilled quota, never uttered at all. a propped up sideways hardened pulp, white telescoping A or V, zygotic scars of missed calls, my skype jana sied, some have known, others not a chance, a glimpse of shine through reflecting highrise glass, candle light, bedside lamp, seeing we've remembered you, the many times of a life, infer magnitude, riding the crane up, it is gone. artists imagine the enormity of a page, the ephemeral Mt Cheam ridgeline, the historical smoke signal, the embryonic crash site, your here, the eternity of an old rocking couch, its floral neglect of brownish, you standing in the comedy, leant over reading, a candy-red robe, lymphoma prize-fighter of morning light, projections of self upon self, absorbing substitution, inexpressible silence, I truly am at a loss for words, a card says, raised, opened, read, completion achieves each, held. the far Pay Tear wake, the heat, a careless ezan, timbre shredded through minaret megaphone, what are your thoughts, vocal control, you said, his voice is shot, re: Tom Waits, a cassette of Felix Brow's first band, Jonathan's Wrath, car deck, our daily Rosedale-Abbotsford commute, laughed, green and yellow mixing, light twinkled through windshield sky, trickle down, a clear brook of humour, ridiculous breaking carefully tricked out standards, to understand a thing is to destabilize another. Pay Tear, the phonetic pronunciation in the German, P?t?rc?k, the Turkish spelling, a French schoolboy-hero, authoritative signifier precludes use of any deviation, my dad, in the antipodes, some titles can't be abandoned. Paraguay, you laughed, the conversion rate, the price of the cab ride, of lunch, pennies to pesos, you thought about replacing yellowed fillings, the vanity of a thousand dollar cosmetic operation, from first awakening, yellow incisors, pocked cheeks, tawny thick beard, to a boy, no other markers were of any worth. mosaics, forty by sixty centimetre portraits, friends, family, among the first, a byzantine robe concealing your passionate heart, Palaeologan walls of the Chora Church, Edirnekap?, from shoulders, a ring of gilded tesserae around your turban, halo placed with internal blue glass, your face would be all riverstone, time, frequency of work and procrastination, compromised the strength of this, the iron beneath the page, a map, the Stomachian electro-magnified under inverted pages, a prayer book, the eighth unearthing of the newest city gates, combinatorics chipping away at glue and globs of wax, fourteen shapes to a square, the same number, green flecks setting in the iris. a day's work, you lying on the linoleum, Bach blaring out of the stereo, the caregiver, I had one, the genetic chimera relates, each word was an arch of a stone, Ariadne auf Naxos on Youtube, saying history race laughter to worship, the far robing the purple, I am there soon, bringing Lights, can Archimedes come for night, an anagram maker on the maybe, plans for a film, the right conditions prevail, story rights, motivated actors, free equipment, people who reuse. between asphodel, pollen and bee I want to hold it all in, disallowing words, fall out, forced to speak, finding a proper name for you, something in keeping, a consistency of anonymity, something syrupy, airborne drift, transliterative purple, nothing fits better than mom, mother, what I know, these terms know who you are, that's why the phone is constantly ringing, your inbox full, I can't go with Dilha, too close to Gilda, honourable names, their own right, rereading Hopkins, rooting out the timed spring quote, for you, it is in that season, a particle, your essence, captured, a bit of pollen on bumblebee fur ruffled among, in between each bloom, a daily circuit, hive and God's creation, now a wing seems torn, you plummeting, a jet falling over borders, all sides, conflicted by truth of events, unexpectedly, in accordance, history, there is still no forbearance from these flowers you've moved through, your life through, others kept their edge, you your spring, the belief, the best will float, rise even, all hold to the same, not an avant garde camera angle, a Hollywood film, a progressive use, fragmentary sound, a chart topper, your mosaic, the way I've seen it, all my life, is there anything more frustrating than rewriting an email which has been accidentally deleted? the asphodel releasing, the pollen carried, the carrier, pollen, you are, this process, somewhere in the Picasso quote, he compares everything existing with that which may, somewhere in Hopkins expressions, beauty, joy, God, wonder, these moments before CVP-R, I hear you, my mother, bouquet servings of vivacity, somewhere in Dad's concern for, your discomfort, his tears, his empty side, the bed, virtually, all his memory, you, you are the phrases overcoming the burn of sterile naming, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, prednisone, rituximab. look, asphodel, look at the stars, look, look up at the skies, o look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! ![]() a law, passed four years back, BC, precludes the use, a cell phone, driving, the intention, to prevent accidents, the attestation, two hands, the steering wheel, drive more defensively, one, justice asserts, the danger, specific one-handed conversation, the tension embodied, having one hand, the steering wheel, talking into a device, clutching in the other hand, long periods, time, it is the law, debated, proven, trust our lawmakers, no comparison, waving while driving, drinking coffee, the regulatory reason surrounds the duration of time in combination with one hand and conversation, until these pleasures, stories too, rightfully legislated, crimes, realized, in most aspects, we grapple, the fullness of a narrative, and, or, dialectic, what we daily see, hear, free conscience, I will remember our trip, the Cancer Hospital, Abbotsford, Lights beside me, the backseat of the Acura, it was as it always had been, a perspective behind seen, the spot I've always been, in the family car, being taken, being brought, somewhere, so it was happening again, this time, we were bringing you, asphodel, bee landing, an available room. if the cops had witnessed, checking for seatbelts, any hanky-panky, as they passed, they, like us confused children curled in the back, would have sped on by, for no mouths were moving, no talking was apparent, only the silence of my father reaching across the gear shift to put a distracted hand in yours. > ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Plastic Women ---------------------- ![]() America: A One-Act Play Based on Quotes by Sigmund Freud Mitch Grabois Scene: A dim tavern in Hoboken, New Jersey Two men sit in a corner booth, Sigmund Freud and his friend Oscar Oscar is a workman, but also an intellectual. He wears overalls and a brush moustache Sigmund secretly despises Oscar Sigmund (leaning over the table and holding his head in his hands): America is a mistake, a giant mistake Oscar: Perhaps I should take you to the botanical garden. Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflict Sigmund: Americans have forgotten that civilization is built upon the renunciation of instinct. If they ever knew. Which I doubt. Oscar: Perhaps the zoo? Time spent with cats is never wasted --------------- Kate LaDew at twenty-three, I started drinking once I was beautiful and spoke with a trembling heart wanting to know everything I watched the stars for clues and dreamed of what I would be then I found you and you filled my glass once a day, then twice-- now I need you to sleep need you to speak, to breath you have consumed everything and drowned what I would be (once I was and once I was and once I was) and now I am nothing but your glass you fill me up coat my insides like a poison and I let you, I open my chest and let you devour my heart I let you drain my life away, I let you because once I was-- and I remember I let you put your hands around my throat, squeeze until I fall asleep into blackness and forget I let you because you cure me of my dreams ![]() grandfather when no one and nothing paid attention to me when I was a little girl drawing in a corner alone watching adults do important things live the life they really wanted and forget for awhile what I took from them, the right to be careless, the right to be young you crossed your legs beside me drew dragons and butterflies taught me how to write my name spoke to me and looked in my eyes and that was enough for me to love you forever and even though you’re gone and my father keeps your photographs in boxes forgets for awhile you were there when he was little too I remember you happened I remember I still write my name in your handwriting ![]() ::::::::::::::::::: Lyn Lifshin is PROlific! Done much, doing more. This selection comes from a longer sequence called Erotica. EVEN THERE It was December and yes finally you wanted me. We ran down the slick narrow road. Houses leaned together the colors wine and brown. Remember the cracked snow, our scarves floating, getting there out of breath, our hair melting. Boots clicked under the door. There were quilts on the sloped ceiling and the old stove you smiled toward going to heat up some coffee. I kept looking around to get it right: your suede jacket hanging in several places. Your mouth was corduroy I wanted to touch but even in the dream, every time I came close to you the place that was you changed to air ![]() VENICE DAPHNE RUN BACKWARDS the way that sandpiper runs as close to the water and then knows, pulls back, but not before he's dug into sea grass. I'm walking out of branches, wood, Daphne run backwards, my own breakwater this time. Blue shells, sun cupped in the arm of some one who doesn't own or want to own me. The leaves he pulls from my skin are stained with the verbs of someone who didn't see what she could. Salt air chews them. We dream of Nantucket, wine in a gray wood someday. You know I never wanted a man just for myself but didn't know that. Gulls. Old women unbutton black coats, feel the light, dreams moving in their throat like birds. They are willow roots hanging on under the sand, pushing deep. In this light, if they were to unloosen a few pins they would grow into their hair, birds blown in the sun toward cities rarely found on maps ![]() AFTER 9 DAYS OF COLD RAIN, ANYTHING BLOOMING TRAMPLED "Still west," you write, "with a PO box in Hell." A jolt, like the wild pear exploding hours after Sunday snow. White crystals, white petals. "On the tip of the spear," you said. "Hard to unplug, wired for weeks, dreams like war games. The green of your words out-jades the geranium. A jolt, your words after almost a year. Not even the spears of pink leaves I could smell from the road as much comfort. "Might be in your city," Darvan, codeine - warm as the cat coiled in my knees. "Still west," you wrote. Then you didn't. War dreams hang in branches. I think maybe Jakarta, he wrote me once from there. The geranium that should have died spreads thru the sunroom. Last year's oak leaves hang on the branches. The petals I smelled from the road smashed into mud. Pink spears gone, the tips of the spears he wrote about dissolve. Rain, the branches, pink lace over, I watch for his screen name. I was over that. The cherries are over, the nine days of cold rain aren't, the paper says, over yet ![]() IN A NOTEBOOK FROM PARIS scraps, the handwriting that had sloped in the yellow light of Florence toward where each line was heading, now almost too real with its this is impossible under a line from the man sing- ing near Rue de la Harpe, moaning where do I go from here. I said I didn't know how to change anything. How little I knew. And then the spit out, leaning backward like trees squashed toward the left by monsoon winds, I feel dead, dead, darkly underlined SNOW FENCES, WORMWOOD our room of sun and metal ghosts of Indians the barns crumbling wormwood inside us only we didn't know saw only the ice cones dripping the sheet's tangle smelling good you said as a woman had been there ![]() A Thousand Soccer Moms Orbit Your Earth Robin Wyatt Dunn ![]() Dear God in Heaven, lover in your warm bed, under these late stars. Sputnik in his long dying path comes again, lover, on Fordham Road where I watched him in 1957 now they are visible again, their light so close now, closing, closing. NORAD wants to take a nap but they are not allowed, they need to get milk on their way home. Milk, milk, my goat is sick. My goat is sick, Manhattan. Come closer to me now and let me whisper: - - John was from the factory. He was a swarthy man, and he knew boats, too, the way your father might have, or his father. I know you know his face even if you forget it. Why not bow? Subside and subsume into the labor of your late hands? He's driving over the Brooklyn Bridge, on his rickshaw. "Sally, Sally, get me two centiliters of the olive oil tonight, darling, and I'll get the beef." - - Presume to know, sweet brother, lean your face in close to the heat of this engine: 80,000 miles an hour and closing in on your secret heart. Soccer mom, soccer mom, sweetheart, you got good legs, you got the laundry done, not as much water now. Laundering that information right along your orbital path. Centigrade 1200 for Silicon, Ray of Green Valley, honey, your Ipad won't show you a thing, darling, it's clean enough for corporate work, chap those palms. Manahatta, Manahatta, man in their hats. What hats, sailor? Ones I've never seen. From over the sea. - - The triangle of Chinatown had expanded these recent decades, swallowed the developer-named hoods with slow pride, vegetables and durians marking time to market, like their brothers down on Wall Street, marked to market on their skin. Tattoos the art of security, code it tight honey and you can scan it any way you want, you know what I mean? Flying over, doll, pizza delivery by Your Sailor's Heart, 8 hours after Afghanistan or North Korea it's double Pepperoni at 2nd Avenue and 20th Street, via drone. Only a monthly re-entry for her. PMS isn't a syndrome; it's a new diplomacy. It is all we have now. - - I know you saw it coming. But so what? A lot of people did. You think that makes you special? Let me tell you something: it doesn't. White or black, buddy? We've got other people here. - - I know, I know, it's international. They're always cruisin' around that moon. But don't cruise too long, people'll notice. - - You remember the first time Mrs. Weiss got her rad-hard solar panels? And we helped her put it together in her garage? You have to help keep up the neighborhood. "Honey, honey the Russians are loud tonight, over the southern hemisphere, my God when do they ever shut up you'd think they'd never seen the magnetosphere before. Sink those Cubans while you get the chance, their Zodiacs are closing in on Battery Park. The solar wind is lovely tonight, honey. Don't stay out too late." Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Weiss, Mrs. Molnar, Mrs. Sucharitkul of Hell's Kitchen, the Bowery, The Upper East Side are chomping at their bit this week, that new teacher is too young, he's arrogant, what book does he have our children reading? What book, son? What book did they show you? From over the sea, Dad! What sea is that? Some sea I saw! You be careful now. "I'm in the middle of your picture dying in your reeds, old Northman," shouts John at some Swede stepping out of his hovercraft. My goodness, even 50th floor traffic is getting bad these days. Too many foreign billionaires. What happened to our good domestic billionaires? Like a turkey in the corn, neighbor. Is it safety, mother? I know you let me climb that big old rock. Why did you have to go all the way up in the sky? Who was it hurt you, ladies, and gentlemen, ancient castle ancient tomb? - - ![]() But it's time to go to work. Soccer mom, soccer mom, I saw your stocking. Pantyhose in the 21st Century, my God, a Jewish nose and the eyes of the Messiah. Soccer mom I heard you panting. No you didn't! I heard you panting at the jet fuel station, take it easy, you're on overload! A thousand soccer moms orbit your Earth, Manahatta, this late day, this old century, undone and undreamed and unborn, flat out past your projections or memories of Antwerp and the miles of deep amber grain, the loads of coffee and sugar, flat out and bourne through I have your old Caribbean pistol shot pegged hard at five knots, a zeppelin or an investment, but not both, standing sleepy and afraid on your Empire State. I heard you barking! Why didn't you land? We don't need another Saltan Sea! No it's not just like the sprinkler schedule on the baseball field. That pipeline must be five megaliters per minute or something! Your heat shield is thick enough, isn't it, couldn't you have done something? Mexico is still a good neighbor. A thousand moms, the gentlest oligarchs, the best bakers, Neosporin in their back pocket, a primer on five centuries of the sea claims on the Northwest Passage in their front, like Alder Wing's "rapture for nerds" they are building a religion and building it better, they are sailing in Pandora.com lullabied pimento cherry Panama hatted 20 foot sailboat style down the Hudson, free of pollution at last, got a Derringer, got a band-aid, got an appointment at the hairdresser. A thousand, a thousand, soccer moms, mothers of our last night, mothers of our new North American heart, who will not ever tell me who I am. - - Vance, Vance! Scurry me into one of your balls! I'll creep like an insect under the red giant. Anything but this, Vance. - - It's so warm. Isn't it, Knoxville, after you've coiled the hose and that small familiar spirit dogging our tracks turns out to be this late American Dream? Who was it hurt you, ladies, and gentlemen? But we don't send them to the women no more. Not on this street. - - "We've got four RPGs pointed at your gas-lined bar-b-que," say the Jersey Legion, outgunned but not outfought. "There are gonna be no more hamburgers for you unless you accede to our reasonable demands!" "What do you want?" asks mom from low orbit. At that speed you'll need to wait 6 minutes for an answer. "Education, free love, do you really give a shit? Just get out of that goddamned rocket ship!" But you've got to keep up with the Jones' sub-orbitals. - - With not green gas but blue (legally taxed), John cooks some beef lemongrass in Bedford Stuy and waits for the power to kick in so he can recharge his cel phone. "I love you honey," he says to his young wife. "I love you too, schnuckums," she says. "I found some marbles for Johnny today." - - Sandy is running for the river, flash drive in the waterproof bag in her pocket. Yeah, you saw those Muslims standing in line. Yeah, struck a chord, struck a chord, Survivor. But so what? You think that makes you special? Pure chance, right? Didn't matter what you did. Run, honey, they can not find you for a statistical seven minutes. "See, it is a Jew here, Max!" Not with my data mask on baby. So what you ticked up arrest quotas? Her face was mine. Her braunen augen on the opposite platform. No U-Bahn no more. Got to keep the riff raff out. Run, Sandy! Tight, tight river liver fever on this tween decade. The tweens, the tweens, like you never seen, let me take control honey, I love these kinds of joystick cameras. No, Dear God. Yes, yes, yes. Yes in the streets they are rhyming with your ten year old's tribeca rap it has 15,000 views, it's not free entertainment yet because COPS is just not quite Manhattan's style, Run Sandy! - - ![]() Into the river. - - Sweet mutant fish, sweet cancered flora of our Big Tent. Mrs. Jones just ignited her second stage. - - See, you don't even need those Hollywood cuts. It's not Deborah Sweinburg sipping her Gibson and watching that television sky as she hunts terrorists in the War Room, no no no no. It's just this new scheduling program I found honey. It's voice activated and it scans up to 75 yards in 720 degrees! I could download a copy for you, honey! - - They've got a dance now the young people are doing. Have you heard it on the radio? It's called: Eat it. Man those kids can dance. They're like Negroes. Right on 5th Avenue. I've no idea what you are talking about. Turn up the volume. I'm trying to get this body moving. Uncamped. You can't get out. - - Obama landed, honey. After the flood. For a whole sixteen hours. Time for over twenty St Krispin's Day Speeches. - - I've no idea what you are taking about. - - You know all these flumes I've been waving? Some times it's time for the redoubt. EMP winter, EMP winter, soccer moms out of the sky! I saw her crash, Dad! Mom crashed! Connecticut is coming closer. Don't shoot till you see the whites of the eyes. - - Soccer mom, soccer mom, I cruised into your passing lane! My skateboard is set for jump and I have electrosensitive vacuum slides on my palms! Don't worry, this bacterium has a half-life of only 18 hours. It's just some mild unpleasantness. Stick that half pipe on your minivan's roof! - - Oh, I know, I know. John saw Peg Leg Stuyvesant down by the shore. Let's stick him up, see what falls out. Mark to your fuel cell market, Amsterdam, fresh bodies are the new tulip. "I got a big idea today, mom." "What's that son?" "I could string these cans together with some twine and make a fernseher!" - - Why should I stay here, ask some. Why should I stay. I'd be crazy not to follow, follow where you lead, Thom with your mad eyes. - - My shooter is green. A green cat's eye. - - I heard the other day they have this private equity passport wall, with all these names and photos and phone numbers, like after 9-11, wow, so retro. - - What religion have you? asks the man in the tricorner. - - Hit the bottom and escape. Some of the soccer moms crash land successfully and make a good 19th century commune in Alberta, near the oil sands. Finally we invaded Canada. With minivans. Tomatoes, potatoes. You say tomato, I say potato-masher. We're just waiting in the wings, Sid. Who's in the audience tonight? "I heard it was the new revolution," says Sid Caesar. "They're quoting Marx and Burroughs and wearing funny hats." What do we do, Sid? "Open the curtain, open the curtain!" - - I'm just an animal who wants to share your light, Thom says. Like a mitochondrion, I only stick with you because there are no others. Was that what it was, Washington? I guess the Hessians had to be somewhere. Might as well have been Radio City Music Hall. Yeah, yeah, Tendrillar Louis the Fourteenth! It's Sun King Podcast App, put it in your mouth and swallow. - - A thousand soccer moms orbit your Earth, Manhattan. They are real clean living. They drink smoothies with protein. Wheatgrass isn't bad, you should try it. And they like good pastrami. They know censorship is wrong. But good taste is important, isn't it? I know I've often talked about the city on the hill but I've never really sat down to describe how I feel about it. Bush meat is a vegetable. A thousand, coming on two now. Do I hear three? That sound, Green Hill or Green Park, some Ides of Rocket Summer, it's like sprinklers and bar-b-ques and subways at night, it's saxophones and plastic bucket drums, cicadas and punched chads. Hold my hand, honey. The galleon is docking. - - "George, what's that sound outside?" "Why, it sounds like Jersey finally broke through!" "Well, which is it George? The helicopter or the cyanide?" - - Liftoff. ![]() "Chumash sequence" H. Mark Webster the waters from the waters, and all the host of them, every living creature, the firstlings of the flock, and of their fat portions, sin is couching at the door, till the ground, instruments of bronze and iron, nine hundred and thirty years, eight hundred and seven years, nine hundred and twelve years, relief from our work, the toil of our hands, of old, the men of reknown, evil continually, filled with violence, inside and out with pitch, store it up, the male and his mate, blot out, in whose nostrils, in the seventh month, freshly plucked, went forth by families, seedtime and harvest, the fear of you, the dread of you, every moving thing, a reckoning, bow in the cloud, whole earth was peopled, coastland peoples spread, their lands, hill country of the east, one language, few words, bitumen for mortar, scattered, left off building, other sons and daughters, other sons and daughters, barren, no child, settled, all the families, an altar, pitched his tent, for her sake, sheep, oxen, menservants, camels, rich in cattle, flocks and herds, strife, kinsmen, left hand, right, northward and southward, eastward and westward, dust of the earth, walk through the length, in the thirteenth year, in the fourteenth year, subdued, subdued, four kings against five, bitumen pits, thread, sandal-thong, young men, offspring, righteousness, carcasses, dread, sojourners, smoking fire pot, children, contempt on her mistress, affliction, wild ass, name of his son, walk before me, everlasting possession, every male, cut from his people, laughed, exceedingly, ninety-nine years, money from a foreigner, three men, morsel of bread, calf, curds, laughed, great and mighty, household, outcry, fifty righteous, dust and ashes, rose to meet them, wash your feet, ate, both young, last man, two daughters, play the judge, struck, groping, outcry, jesting, merciful, kindness, yonder city, smoke of the land, smoke of a furnace, dwelt in a cave, lay with him, bore a son, man's wife, no fear, indeed my sister, sheep and oxen, vindication, bore children, bore him, commanded him, in his old age, weaned, skin of water, wilderness, water, expert with the bow, swear, tamarisk, one of the mountains, cut the wood, together, together, upon the wood, only son, thicket, stars of heaven, concubine, before his dead, end of his field, full price, bury your dead, the merchants, your wife, his hand, under the thigh, swore, concerning the matter, outside the city, draw water, steadfast love, virgin, let down her jar, emptied her jar, straw and provender, provender for the camels, wife for my son, oath, oath, ring on her nose, right hand, left, himself to the earth, raiment, ate and drank, went his way, meditate, loved her, comforted, eastward, a hundred and seventy-five, all his people, prayer, conceived, struggled, red, hairy, heel, man of the field, quiet man, boiling pottage, lentils, birthright, statutes, laws, guilt, sowed, reaped, a hundredfold, springing water, quarreled, a well, ate and drank, took oath, quiver, bow, savory food, savory food, hairy man, smooth man, skins of the kids, ate, drank, kissed him, blessed him, fatness of the earth, trembled violently, bitter cry, supplanted, break his yoke, brother's fury, bereft, fruitful, descendants, wives, daughter, ladder, dust of the earth, gate of heaven, pillar, poured oil, people of the east, stone from the mouth, watered ![]() the flock, a month, seven years, feast, another seven, mighty wrestlings, happy, mandrakes in the field, fifth son, sixth son, divination, feed your flock, speckled, spotted, speckled, spotted, white streaks, exceedingly rich, he-goats, mottled, land of your birth, live-stock, possession, the hill country, tambourine and lyre, foolishly, ewes, she-goats, wild beasts, empty-handed, daughters, daughters, made a heap, ate, by the heap, no man is with us, pillar, heap, ate bread, tarried all night, four hundred men, sand of the sea, he-goats, she-asses, he-asses, behind us, see his face, hollow of his thigh, life is preserved, sinew of the hip, maids with their children, bowed down, herds giving suck, booths for his cattle, tent, altar, dwell with us, maiden, wife, dwell in the land, killed all the males, all their wealth, all their little ones, fled from his brother, hard labour, hard labour, grave, tower, breathed his last, buried him, took his wives, his cattle, all his beasts, in the wilderness, these are the sons, these are the chiefs, families, dwelling places, lad with the sons, son of his old age, robe with sleeves, lo, my sheaf, dominion, jealous, wandering in the fields, afar, one of the pits, a wild beast, long robe, empty, no water, gum, balm, rent his clothes, robe in the blood, sackcloth, mourning, wept, sold, captain of the guard, conceived and bore a son, first-born, offspring for your brother, semen on the ground, slew him, dwelt in her father's house, sheepshearers, harlot, signet, cord, widowhood, child by harlotry, twins in her womb, scarlet thread, successful man, overseer, in house and field, handsome, good-looking, great wickedness, insult, same story, insult, steadfast love, keeper of the prison, butler, baker, butler, baker, interpretations, blossoms shot forth, three branches, kindness, dungeon, favourable, dream, uppermost basket, left up your head, eat the flesh, feast, head, head, two whole years, seven cows sleek and fat, gaunt and thin, ears of grain, blighted, magicians, captain of the guard, changed his clothes, seven years, seven years, unknown in the land, discreet and wise, regards the throne, fine linen, second chariot, marriage, great abundance, hardship, severe in the land, governor over the land, spies, spies, twelve brothers, youngest brother, reckoning for his blood, wept, spoke, provisions, bundle of money, bundles of money, gray hairs, sorrow, kindred, returned twice, gum, myrrh, pistachio, grant you mercy, steward of the house, bade him, at the door of the house, full weight, water, feet, welfare, obeisance, sought a place to weep, abomination, first-born, drank, sacks with food, mouth of the sack, silver cup, blameless, ending with the youngest, guilt of your servants, his father loves him, his father would die, little food, harm ![]() befalls, he will die, wept aloud, dismayed at his presence, do not be distressed, remnant on earth, make haste, dwell in the land, your children, your household, wept, talked with him, load your beasts, eat the fat, wagons, spirit of their father, visions, their father, their little ones, all his offspring, thirty-three, sixteen persons, seven persons, sixty-six persons in all, seventy, fell, wept on his neck, keepers of the cattle, sojourn in the land, in charge of my cattle, few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, food in exchange for the horses, give us seed, that we may live, priests, fixed allowance, seed for you, sow the land, a fifth, four fifths, statute concerning, seventeen years, a hundred and forty-seven years, hand under my thigh, summoned his strength, sat up in bed, company of peoples, offspring born to you, dim with age, kissed them, embraced them, face to the earth, crossing his hands, in the midst of the earth, the land of your fathers, one mountain slope, sword, bow, first fruits of my strength, unstable as water, hamstring oxen, divide them, scatter them, vesture in the blood of grapes, haven for ships, sheep-folds, a hind let loose, arms, agile, blessings of heaven, on the brow of him who was separate from his brothers, gathered to my people, the field and the cave, breathed his last, was gathered, wept, forty days, wept, seventy days, go up, go up, very great company, very great and sorrowful lamentation, in the cave of the field, a burying place, all who had gone, to bury his father, forgive the trangression, wept, we are your servants, reassured them, comforted them, a hundred and ten years, took an oath of his sons, a hundred and ten years old, put in a coffin names of the sons, seventy persons, all that generation, exceedingly strong, new king, let us deal shrewdly, taskmasters, in dread of the people, serve with rigor, birthstool, son, daughter, male children, midwives, goodly child, three months, bitumen and pitch, babe was crying, give you your wages, water, burdens, hid him in the sand, the thing is known, content to dwell with the man, his daughter, sojourner in a foreign land, bondage, flame of fire, I know their sufferings, when you have brought forth the people, name for ever, hearken to your voice, not go empty, put them on your sons, a rod, cast it on the ground, bosom, leprous, white as snow, eloquent, slow of speech, man's mouth, put the words in the mouth, kinsmen, my first-born son, your first-born son, flint, bridegroom, met, kissed him, circumcision, bowed their heads and worshiped, three day's journey, gather straw, heavier work, taskmasters, stubble, evil plight, offensive in the sight, drive them out, great acts of judgement, behold, the names of the sons, the sons, the daughter, the sister, the heads of the fathers' houses, they who spoke, your brother shall be your prophet, bring forth my hosts, stretch forth, eighty years old, eighty-three years old, became a serpent, swallowed up their rods, you have not yet obeyed, loathe to drink, vessels of wood, stone, fish, could not drink the water, into your ovens, your kneading bowls, over the canals, upon the land, entreat, depart, together in heaps, the land stank, dust, gnats, to bring forth gnats, flies, great swarms, ruined by reason, abominable, deal falsely, the field, the horses, not one of the cattle, handfuls of ashes, fine dust, boils breaking, cut off from the earth, hail to fall, slaves, cattle in the field, fire flashing continually, every plant of the field, every tree of the field, sinned this time, entreat, the flax, the barley, in the hearing of your son's son, humble yourself, eat what is left, a snare, ruined, a feast, some evil purpose, stretched forth, all the fruit of the trees, not a green thing, forgive my sin, entreat, remove this death, darkness to be felt, not a hoof shall be left behind, every woman of her neighbour, in the sight of the people, about midnight, the first-born, behind the mill, distinction, hot anger, a lamb for a household, without blemish, roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts, in haste, seven days, a holy assembly, on the fourteenth day, until the twenty-first day, for seven days, a bunch of hyssop, in the basin, the destroyer, keep his service, throne, dungeon, first-born of the cattle, urgent with the people, their kneading bowls, six hundred thousand men, four hundred and thirty years, watching, native, stranger, their hosts, open the womb, bondage, with you in all your territory, memorial, firstling of an ass, redeem, frontlets between your eyes, equipped for battle, the bones, entangled in the land, they did so, the people had fled, six hundred picked chariots, defiantly, no graves, let us serve, stand firm, before the host, the cloud and the darkness, a strong east wind, a wall, on their right hand, on their left, pillar of fire, clogging, wonted flow, a wall, on their right hand, on their left, seashore, his servant, the horse and his rider, his picked officers, like stubble, congealed in the heart, mighty waters, terror and dread, bringing them in, thy abode, with timbrels and dancing, the horse and his rider, water became sweet, statute, ordinances, none of the diseases, when we sat by the fleshpots, with hunger, a day's portion, murmurings, murmurings, the whole congregation, at twilight, flesh, flake-like, hoarfrost, each gathering according, worms, foul, angry, the sun grew, it melted, the leaders of the congregation, bake, boil, the people rested, take a jar, by stages, strike the rock, the top of the hill, weary, edge of the sword, a book, generation to generation, father-in-law, did obeisance, kissed, asked, went into the tent, delivered the people, sacrifices, bread, I decide ![]() between a man and his neighbour, decisions, statutes, bribe, place in peace, rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, kingdom of priests, thick cloud, bounds for the people, put to death, near a woman, wrapped in smoke, gaze, perish, break out against them, bondage, iniquity, guiltless, do all your work, long in the land, anything that is your neighbours, afar off, profane, nakedness, if he comes in single, ear through, for life, deal with her as a daughter, without payment, flee, when men strive together, wound for wound, for the tooth's sake, ransom, the owner of the pit, ox for ox, restitution, restitution, for every breach of trust, torn by beasts, you shall not permit a sorceress to live, from the outflow of your presses, false report, the poor of your people may eat, refreshed, empty-handed, hearken to his voice, hearken attentively, hornets, they shall not dwell in your land, half of the blood and put it in basins, sapphire, ate, drank, tables of stone, out of the midst, whose heart makes him willing, goats' hair, onyx stones, tabernacle, furniture, the poles shall remain in the rings of the ark, overshadowing the mercy seat, flagons, lampstands of pure gold, six branches, five curtains shall be coupled to one another, loops of blue, the eleven curtains shall have the same measure, fifty loops, fifty loops, two tenons for each frame, and you shall hang the veil from the clasps, their hooks shall be of gold, a grating, on the north side shall be hangings, the breadth of the court, filleted with silver, a breastpiece, a robe, a girdle, his sons to serve as priests, two shoulder-pieces attached to its two edges, six of their names on the one stone, a row of sardius, the third row a jacinth, in the breastpiece of the judgement, an opening for the head, pomegranates, when he ministers, and when he comes out, linen breeches to cover their naked flesh, consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests, fine wheat flour, wash them with water, the head of the bull, two kidneys with the fat, its skin, burn with fire, one loaf of bread, one cake of bread, burn, an outsider shall not eat of them, seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, two lambs a year old day by day continually, fine flour mangled, a pleasing odour, a perpetual incense, atonement, atonement, each shall give a ransom for himself, when you number them, each who is numbered, shall not give more, shall not give less, a laver of bronze, lest they die, to his descendants throughout their generations, cinnamon, cassia, sacred anointing, it shall not be poured upon the bodies of ordinary men, whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cast out from his people, seasoned with salt, fragrant incense for the holy place, six days shall work be done, put to death, tables of stone, rings of gold which are in the ears of your wives, graving tool, corrupted themselves, stiff-necked, fierce wrath, tables of the testimony, graven upon the tables, the calf, ground it to powder, scattered it upon the water, there fell of the people, three thousand men, bestow a blessing upon you this day, blot out, stiff-necked, ornaments, ornaments, stripped, every man at his tent door, I know you by name, all my goodness pass, mercy, mercy, cover you with my hand, take away my hand, the words that were on the first tables, which you broke, forgiving iniquities and transgressions and sins, stiff-necked, lest it become a snare in the midst of you, all that opens the womb is mine, redeem, in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest, he neither ate bread nor drank water, the skin of his face, the skin of his face, fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework, the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court, so they came, a willing heart, the leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set, freewill offering, a network of bronze, from the mirrors of the ministering women, and the screen for the gate of the court was embroidered with needlework in blue and purple, the tabernacle of the testimony, finely wrought garments, for ministering the holy place, stones of remembrance for the sons, a row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle, twelve stones with their names, on the skirts of the robe they made pomegranates of blue and purple, the ark of the testimony with its poles and the mercy seat, the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, screen the ark with the veil, place the laver between the tent of meeting and the ![]() altar, anoint the laver and its base, bring his sons, put coats on them, a perpetual priesthood, he put the table, in the tent of meeting, they went into the tent of meeting, they washed, they set up the screen of the gate, whenever the cloud was taken up, fire was in it by night, in the sight of all called, spoke to him, saying, you shall bring your offering of cattle, a male without blemish, the priests shall present the blood, he shall kill it on the north side, wring off its head, if your offering is a cereal offering baked on a griddle, cooked in a pan, it is a most holy part of the offerings by fire, you shall offer salt, the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, the fat tail entire, taking it away close by the backbone, all the fat that is on the entrails, all the fat that is on the entrails, just as these are taken from the ox at the sacrifice of the peace offerings, the skin of the bull, the ashes are poured out, and the priest shall make atonement, and he shall carry forth the bull outside the camp, or if any one touches an unclean thing, or a carcass of unclean swarming things, any sort of rash oath that men swear, he shall wring its head from its neck, but shall not sever it, the burnt offering shall be on the hearth upon the altar all night until the morning, the priest shall burn wood on it, it shall not go out, every cereal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned, the guilt offering is like the sin offering, the skin of the burnt offering, mixed with oil or dry, whether the uncleanness of man or an unclean beast or an unclean abomination, the fat of an animal that dies of itself, assemble all the congregation at the door of the tent of meeting, he placed the breastpiece on him, bound caps on them, killed it, and took the blood, took all the fat that was on the entrails, he burned with fire outside the camp, killed it, then the blood, the legs were washed with water, on the great toe of his right foot, an ordination offering, a pleasing odour, boil the flesh, draw near to the altar, piece by piece, filled his hand from it, and the fat of the ox, fire came forth, all the people saw it, fell on their faces, fire came forth from the presence, sanctuary, do not rend your clothes, you are to distinguish between the holy and the common, you and your sons and your daughters with you, say to the people, these are the living things, the rock badger, the hare, their carcasses you shall not touch, the eagle, the osprey, the ibis, the stork, the heron according to its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat, the weasel, the mouse, everything upon which any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean, it shall be broken in pieces, he who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, whatever goes on its belly, you shall not defile yourselves with them, you shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls upon the earth, the unclean and the clean, the living creature that may be eaten, the living creature that may not be eaten, a male child, on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumsized, she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying, if the eruption has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean, raw flesh is unclean, he is clean, the priest shall pronounce him clean, the priest shall examine it, the itching disease, the priest shall shut up the person with the itching disease for seven days more, he is unclean, tetter, his disease is on his head, he shall dwell alone in a habitation outside the camp, the leper for the day of his cleansing, an examination, two living clean birds, cedarwood, hyssop, running water, the open field, outside his tent seven days, bathe his body in water, two male lambs without blemish, guilt offering, the priest shall make atonement, the blood of the guilt offering, the priest shall make atonement, there seems to me to be some sort of disease in my house, greenish or reddish spots, the plaster that they scrape off they shall pour into an unclean place outside the city, the priest shall go and look, two small birds, cedarwood, hyssop, sprinkle the house, thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field, he shall make atonement for the house, the law for leprosy, whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is stopped from discharge, it is uncleanness in him, this is the law for him who has a discharge, for any one, male or female, who has a discharge, and for the man who lies with a woman who is unclean, the death of the two sons, into the holy place with the veil, in the cloud upon the mercy seat, he shall put on the holy linen coat, he shall bathe his body in water, cast lots upon the two goats, presented alive to make atonement, it may be sent away into the wilderness, a censer full of coals, the cloud of incense may cover the mercy seat which is upon the testimony, he shall sprinkle the blood with his finger, for the tent of meeting, there shall be no man in the tent of meeting when he enters, he shall present the live goat, confess over him, send him away, by the hand of a man who is in readiness, he shall let the goat go in the wilderness, the fat of the sin offering, he who lets the goat go, he may come into the camp, he may come into the camp, it shall be a statute, on this day shall atonement be made for you, you shall afflict yourselves, he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly, an everlasting statute, bloodguilt shall be imputed to that man, he has shed blood, to the priest at the door of the tent of meeting, I will set my face against that person who eats blood, for the life of the flesh is in the blood, for it is the blood that makes atonement, for the life of every creature is the blood of it, every person that eats what dies of itself or what is torn by beasts, you shall do my ordinances and keep my statutes and walk in them, you shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness, you shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife, she is your aunt, and you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is yet alive, you shall not life with a male as with a woman, it is an abomination, do not defile yourselves by any of these things, lest the land vomit you out, when you defile it, you shall be holy, do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods, you shall not reap your field to its very border, you shall not strip your vineyard bare, the wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning, you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, you shall not hate your brother in your heart, you shall keep my statutes, you shall not practice augury or witchcraft, you shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard, do not turn to mediums or wizards, you shall have just balances, just weights, if a person turns to mediums and wizards, playing the harlot after them, I will set my face against that person, every one who curses his father or his mother shall be put to death, if a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity, you shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you, you shall inherit their land, stone with stones, their blood, speak to the priests, they shall not make tonsures for their heads, nor make any cuttings in their flesh, he shall not go in to any dead body, nor defile himself, none of your descendants, whoever touches anything that is unclean, the person who touches any such shall be unclean, when the sun is down he shall be clean, animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs, you shall not offer, since there is a blemish in them, you shall not profane my holy name, you shall proclaim as holy convocations, my appointed feasts, an offering by fire, one male goat for a sin offering, proclamation on the same day, a statute, you shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, you shall afflict yourselves, whoever is not afflicted on this same day shall be cut off my his people, you shall afflict yourselves, it is a solemn assembly, the fruit of goodly trees, and willows of the brook, you shall dwell in booths for seven days, dwell in booths, a light may be kept burning, he shall keep the lamps, fine flour, memorial portion, a perpetual due, woman's son, man, quarreled, blasphemed, they put him in custody, let all the congregation stone him, all the congregation shall stone him, sojourner as well as native, one law for the sojourner and for the native, and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones, six years you shall sow your field, what grows of itself in your harvest, for your cattle also, send abroad the loud trumpet, the trumpet throughout all of your land, you shall hallow the fiftieth year, it shall be a jubilee, a jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you, you shall eat what it yields out of the field, if the years are many you shall increase the price, if the years are few you shall diminish the price, it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you, my statutes, ordinances, perform them, the land will yield its fruit, dwell in it securely, you are strangers and sojourners with me, you shall grant a redemption of the land, your brother may live beside you, you shall not make him serve as a slave, you shall not set up a figured stone in your land, I will give you your rains, the land shall yield its increase, the sword shall not go through your lands, I will walk among you, I have broken the bars of your yoke, if by this discipline you are not turned to me, I will bring a sword upon you, you shall eat the flesh of your sons, my soul will abhor you, I will devastate the land, as for those of you that are left, I will send faintness into their hearts, they shall fall when none pursues, if they confess their iniquity, if then their uncircumsized heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, I will remember my covenant, I will remember my covenant, my covenant, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly, no one devoted, who is to be utterly destroyed from among me, shall be ransomed, he shall be put to death, if a man wishes to redeem any of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman's staff, shall be holy, these are my commandments spoken, in the wilderness, in the tent of meeting, in the second year, by families, by fathers' houses, according to the number, every male, twenty years, upward, each man being the head of the house, the names of the men, the son, the son, the sons, chosen from the congregation, the heads of the clans, took these men, the second month, the whole congregation, head by head, their generations, all who were able to go forth to war, forty-six thousand five hundred, by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war, seventy-four thousand six hundred, forty-four thousand four hundred, fifty-seven thousand four hundred, namely, by their families, according to the number of names, forty thousand five hundred, thirty-two thousand two hundred, sixty-two thousand seven hundred, forty-one thousand five hundred, fifty-three thousand four hundred, each representing his father's house, every man able to go forth to war, their whole number, ancestral tribe, they are to carry the tabernacle, they shall tend it, and shall encamp around the tabernacle, and if any one else comes near, he shall be put to death, every man by his own camp, every man by his own standard, the tabernacle of the testimony, thus did the people, on the eastside toward the sunrise, seventy-four thousand six hundred, they shall set out first on the march, they shall set out second, each in position, his host as numbered, then the leader of the people, a hundred and eight thousand one hundred, the whole number of the camp, they shall set out last, standard by standard, every one in his family, according to the fathers' house, the names of the sons, for the whole congregation, on the day that I slew all the first-born, I consecrated, they shall be mine, number the sons, every male from a month old and upward you shall number, seven thousand five hundred, encamp behind the tabernacle on the west, all the services pertaining, the duties of the sanctuary, the ark, the table, the lampstands, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary, six thousand two hundred, the frames of the tabernacle, all their accessories, pegs and cords, all the males from a month old and upward, all the first-born males, according to the number of the names, the redemption money, the redemption money, all who can enter the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting, the most holy things, the ark of the testimony, a covering of goatskin, over the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, the forks, the shovels, and the basins, all the furnishings of the sanctuary, they must not touch the holy things, the continual cereal offering, and the anointing oil, they shall not go in to look upon the holy things even for a moment, lest they die, from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can enter for service, the screen for the door of the tent of meeting, and the hangings of the court, the service of the families, from thirty years old up to fifty years old, you shall number them, you shall assign by name the objects which they are required to carry, their number by families, was two thousand seven hundred and fifty, two thousand six hundred and thirty, the tent of meeting, bearing burdens in the tent of meeting, thus were they numbered, put out of the camp every leper, both male and female, putting them outside the camp, he shall confess his sin, he shall make full restitution for his wrong, whatever any man gives to the priest shall be his, say to the people, if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself, the man shall bring his wife to the priest, the priest shall bring her near, the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse, let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, the priest shall write these curses in a book, and wash them off into the water of bitterness, the water that brings the curse shall enter enter her and cause bitter pain, if she has defiled herself, her body shall swell, the woman shall become an execration among her people, she shall be free and shall conceive children, the priest shall execute upon her all the law, say to the people, the vow, to separate, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, all the days of his separation he shall drink nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins, he shall be holy, he shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long, he shall not go near a dead body, he shall consecrate his head that same day, he shall be brought to the door of the tent of meeting, offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering, take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire, the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, put them upon the hands, drink wine, according to the law for his separation, say to them, make his face shine upon you, and give you peace, ![]() finished setting up the tabernacle, offered and brought their offerings, six covered wagons and twelve oxen, accept those from them, each man according to his service, two wagons and four oxen, four wagons and eight oxen, charged with the care of the holy things, the dedication of the altar, one leader each day, the first day, silver plate, silver basin, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering, five male goats, second day, silver basin, one golden dish, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering, two oxen, five male lambs a year old, third day, fourth day, fifth day, one silver plate, one young bull, one ram, on male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering, sixth day, the leader of the men, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, one golden dish of ten shekels, full of incense, seventh day, eighth day, ninth day, tenth day, eleventh day, one silver basin of seventy shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering, twelfth day, for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old, the dedication for the altar, on the day when it was anointed, from the leaders, each silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and each basin seventy, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty, the dedication offering for the altar, after it was anointed, the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, it spoke to him, set up the lamps, seven lamps, he set up its lamps, the worksmanship of the lampstand, hammered work of gold, he made the lampstand, from among the people, the water of the expiation, let them go with a razor over all their body, let them take a young bull and its cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil, assemble the whole congregation of the people, you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, all the congregation of the people, so they did to them, from twenty-five years old and upward, service of the tent of meeting, from the age of fifty years they shall withdraw, from the work of the service and serve no more, minister to their brethren in the tent of meeting, in the first month of the second year, passover at its appointed time, statutes, ordinances, in the first month, on the fourteenth day on the month, in the evening, certain men who were unclean, we are unclean through touching the dead body of a man, wait, in the second month on the fourteenth day in the evening they shall keep it, they shall leave none of it until the morning, but the man who is clean and is not on a journey, that man shall bear his sin, if a stranger sojourns among you, you have have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native, the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night, as long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp, whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, when it was taken up, they set out, make two silver trumpets, of hammered work, when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side shall set out, the trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations, war in your land, on the day of your gladness also, at your appointed feasts, at the beginning of your months, trumpets over your burnt offerings, in the second year, in the second month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony, set out by stages, set out for the first time at the command, when the tabernacle was taken down, over the host of the tribe, carrying the holy things, over their host, the standard of the camp of the men, acting as the rear guard of all the camp, the order of the march of the people, when they set out, so they set out from the mount, the ark of the covenant, let thy enemies be scattered, return, to the ten thousand thousands, misfortunes, his anger was kindled, prayed, the fire abated, rabble, strong craving, wept, we remember the fish we ate, the cucumbers, the leeks, the garlic, our strength is dried up, coriander seed, bdellium, went about and gathered it, boiled it in pots, when the dew fell upon the camps at night, weeping, every man at the door of his tent, displeased, carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries the sucking child, weep, the burden's too heavy for me, kill me at once, that I may not see my wretchedness, seventy men, bring them to the tent of meeting, they shall bear the burden of the people with you, say to the people, consecrate yourselves, you shall eat meat, who will give us meat to eat, you shall eat, but a whole month until it comes out at your nostrils, now you shall see, seventy men, some of the spirit, put it upon the seventy elders, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, two men, they were among those registered, so they prophesied in the camp, the minister, one of the chosen men, forbid them, are you jealous for my sake, there went forth a wind, quails from the sea, a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, all the next day, gathered, the meat was yet between their teeth, anger, great plague, there they buried the people who had the craving, the people journeyed, he had married, he had married, meek, more than all men that were on the face of the earth, and the three of them came out, a pillar of cloud, hear my words, he is entrusted with all of my house, not in dark speech, and he beholds the form, why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, departed, behold, leprous, as white as snow, she was leprous, do not punish us because we have done foolishly and have sinned, let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed, heal her, let her be shut up outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out on the march, encamped in the wilderness, men to spy out the land, according to the command, there were the names, from the tribe, from the tribe, from the tribe, the son, the son, sent to spy out the land, yonder, into the hill country, strong or weak, few or many, whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, strongholds, rich or poor, be of good courage, bring some of the fruit of the land, the first ripe grapes, near the entrance, seven years before, cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, pomegranates and figs, at the end of forty days, this is its fruit, the cities are fortified and very large, besides, dwell in the land, dwell in the hill country, dwell by the sea, quieted the people, we are well able to overcome it, an evil report of the land, a land that devours its inhabitants, we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, a loud cry, wept, murmured, would that we had died, our wives and our little ones will beome a prey, let us choose a captain, all the assembly of the congregation, rent their clothes, an exceedingly good land, he will bring us into this land, they are bread for us, all the congregation, the tent of meeting, in spite of all the signs which I have wrought, the pestilence, a nation greater and mightier than they, art in the midst of this people, art seen face to face, pardon the inquity of the people, even until now, none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs, these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice, none of those who despised me shall see it, but my servant, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants, murmur, murmurings, your dead bodies shall fall in the wilderness, numbered from twenty years old and upward, but your little ones, I will bring in, but as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in this wilderness, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, all this wicked congregation that are gathered together against me, to a full end, they shall die, murmur, evil report, died by plague, the son, the son, of these men, the people mourned, went up to the hill country, for we have sinned, do not go up, you shall fall by the sword, because you have turned back from following, but they presumed to go up, came down, defeated them, pursued them, say to the people, when you come into the land, offer, from the flock an offering by fire, he who brings his offering, you shall prepare with the burnt offering, you shall prepare for a cereal offering, fine flour, according to the number that you prepare, so shall you do with every one according to their number, all who ![]() are native, for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, one law and one ordinance, when you come into the land, when you eat of the food of the land, of the first of your coarse meal, of the first of your coarse meal, if one person sins unwittingly, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering, you shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, but the person who does anything with a high hand, that person shall be cut off from among his people, his iniquity shall be upon him, in the wilderness, a man gathering sticks, gathering sticks, it had not been made plain what should be done to him, the man should be put to death, all the congregation brought him outside the camp, stoned him to death with stones, speak to the people, tassels, of each corner a cord of blue, not to follow after your own heart, wantonly, be holy, men, two hundred and fifty leaders from the assembly, well-known men, you have gone too far, him who he will choose he will cause to come near to him, you have gone too far, all your brethren, gathered together, murmur against, will you put out the eyes of these men, we will not come up, I have not taken one ass from them, every man took his censer, laid incense, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them, say to the congregation, get away from the dwelling, depart, I pray you, from the tents of those wicked men, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones, the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, and they do down alive, despised, all these words, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, they perished, fire came forth, two hundred and fifty men, incense, scatter the fire, let them be made into hammered plates, the bronze censers, so that no one who is not a priest, should draw near to burn incense, as his company, but, murmured, you have killed the people, assembled against, behold, the cloud, get away from the midst of the congregation, that I may consume them, take your censer, and put fire there in from off the altar, make atonement, the plague has begun, behold, the plague, and he stood between the dead and the living, fourteen thousand seven hundred, when the plague was stopped, speak to the people, get them rods, the rod of the man whom I choose shall sprout, I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the people, one for each leader, twelve rods, deposited the rods, the tent of the testimony, sprouted, put forth buds, blossoms, bore ripe almonds, before the testimony, a sign for the rebels, make an end to their murmurings, lest they die, we are undone, we are undone, you shall bear iniquity in connection with your priesthood, I give your priesthood as a gift, any one else who comes near shall be put to death, all the consecrated things, to your sons, as a perpetual due, every cereal offering, every sin offering, every guilt offering, as a perpetual due, every one who is clean in your house may eat of it, the first ripe fruits, everything that opens the womb of the flesh, their redemption price, a covenant of salt, I am your portion, an inheritance, a perpetual statute throughout your generations, you shall present an offering, a tithe of the tithe, the grain of the threshing floor, the fulness of the wine press, the hallowed part, in return for your service in the tent of meeting, you shall not profane the holy things of the people, lest you die, this is the statute of the law, a red heifer without defect, upon which the yoke has never come, she shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered, sprinkle some of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times, the heifer shall be burned in his sight, her skin, her flesh, the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop, he who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water, and shall be unclean until evening, he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening, a perpetual statute, this is the law when a man dies in a tent, every open vessel, which has no cover fastened upon it, is unclean, he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, came into the wilderness, stayed, died there, was buried there, no water for the congregation, assembled, contended, said, why, why, this evil place, no place for grain, or figs, pomegranates, no water to drink, went from the presence, fell on their faces, take the rod, tell the rock before their eyes, you shall give drink to the congregation and their cattle, twice, water came forth, these are the waters, messengers, a city on the edge of your territory, let us pass through your land, the King's Highway, you shall not pass, you shall not pass through, a strong force, turned away from him, journeyed, the whole congregation, on the border of the land, gathered to his people, gathered to his people, in the sight of the congregation, died there on top of the mountain, wept, thirty days, king, took some of them captive, give this people, utterly destroy their cities, hearkened to the voice, gave over, they utterly destroyed them and their cities, the people became impatient, spoke, we loathe this worthless food, fiery serpents, we have sinned, we have spoken against, bronze serpent, bronze serpent, encamped, toward the sunrise, in the wilderness that extends from the boundary, the valleys, the slopes, messengers, let me pass through your land, we will not drink the water of a well, he gathered all his men together, and went out, slew him with the edge of the sword, took possession of his land, the ballad singers, the lords of the heights, you are undone, sons fugitives, daughters captives, so their posterity perished, and we laid waste until fire spread, dwelt in the land, turned and went up, do not fear him, so they slew him, not one survivor, set out, encamped, great dread of the people, as the ox licks up the grass of the field, messengers, he whom you curse, fees from divination, lodge here this night, who are these men with you, behold, a people has come out, it covers the face of the earth, you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed, house full of silver and gold, tarry here this night also, rose in the morning, his two servants were with him, stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on either side, she pushed against the wall, she lay down, anger was kindled, struck, with his staff, what have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times, was I ever accustomed to do so to you, no, opened the eyes, standing, with his drawn sword in his hand, your way is perverse before me, if she had not turned aside from me, surely just now I would have slain you and let her live, I have sinned, now therefore, if it is evil in thy sight, I will go back again, only the word which I bid you, that shall you speak, went on with the princes, at the extremity of the boundary, have I now any power at all to speak anything, sacrificed oxen and sheep, build for me seven altars, stand beside your burnt offering, I have prepared the seven altars, took up his discourse, how can I curse, how can I denounce, lo, a people dwelling alone, let me die the death of the righteous, stand here beside your burnt offering, too up his discourse, has he said, and will he not do it, or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it, the shout of a king is among them, behold, a people, as a lioness it rises up, drinks the blood of the slain, build for me seven altars, offered a bull and a ram on each altar, he did not go, as at other times, to look at omens, but set his face toward the wilderness, took up his discourse, falling down, but having his eyes uncovered, how fair are your tents, water shall flow from his buckets, he has as it were the horns of the wild ox, cursed be every one who curses you, I called you to curse my enemies, come, I will let you know what this people will do to your people in the latter days, took up his discourse, the oracle of a man whose eye is opened, falling down, but having his eyes uncovered, a star shall come forth, a sceptre shall rise, it shall crush the forehead, and break down all the sons, took up his discourse, enduring in your dwelling place, took up his discourse, he also shall come to destruction, rose, went back to his place, the people began to play the harlot with the daughters, to the sacrifices of their gods, bowed down, yoked, take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them in the sun, every one of you slay his men, woman to his family, he rose and left the congregation, took a spear in his hand, into the inner room, pierce both of them, the woman, through the body, plague was stayed, twenty-four thousand, turned back my wrath, perpetual priesthood, said, harrass, smite, they have harrassed you with their wiles, after the plague, census, who are able to go forth to war, the priest spoke with them in the plains, twenty years old and upward, these are the families, these are the families, twenty-two thousand two hundred, according to their number, forty thousand five hundred, according to their number, according to their number, sixty thousand five hundred, their number was fifty-two thousand seven hundred, according to their number, thirty-two thousand five hundred, according to their families, the sons, the family of, the family of, the sons, according to their families, their number was forty-five thousand six hundred, sixty-four thousand four hundred, according to their number, fifty-three thousand four hundred, according to their families, their number was fotry-five thousand four hundred, this was the number of the people, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty, the land shall be divided, a large inheritance, a small inheritance, every tribe shall be given its inheritance, divided by lot, according to the names, according to lot between the larger and the smaller, as numbered according to their families, the family of, the family of, she bore, died when they offered unholy fire, for they were not numbered, they shall die in the wilderness, not left a man of them, except, then drew near the daughters, at the door of the tent of meeting, our father dies in the wilderness, why should the name of our father be taken away, you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter, if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brother, a statute and ordinance, go up into this mountain, sanctify me at the waters before their eyes, appoint a man over the congregation, lay your hand upon him, commission him in their sight, inquire for him by the judgement, and he laid his hands upon him, command the people, my food for my offerings by fire, the other lambs you shall offer in the evening, you shall offer it as an offering by fire, a year old without blemish, and on the fifteenth day of this month is a feast, a holy convocation, also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offering, see that they are without ![]() blemish, it is a day for you to blow your trumpets, also one male goat for a sin offering, also one male goat for a sin offering, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, on the third day eleven bulls, two rams, on the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, on the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly, you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering by fire, in addition to your votive offerings, when a man vows a vow, he shall not break his word, any vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her, but if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning her pledge of herself, shall not stand, but if he makes them null and void after he has heard of them, then he shall bear her iniquity, afterward you shall be gathered to your people, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war, slew the kings, the five kings, slew, the son, with the sword, took captive the women, and their little ones, took as booty all their cattle, their flocks, all the spoil and all the booty, both of man and beast, at the camp on the plains, have you let all the women live, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him, encamp outside the camp seven days, you shall purify every garment, every article of skin, all work of goats' hair, and every article of wood, everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean, you shall be clean, divide the booty into two parts, between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation, half you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, thirty-two thousand persons in all, women who had not known man by lying with him, tribute was thirty-two persons, gave the tribute, your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us, a very great multitude of cattle, behold, the place was a place for cattle, if we have found favour in your sight, shall your brethren go to war while you sit here, anger was kindled, anger was kindled, a brood of sinful men, you will destroy all this people, we will build sheepfolds here for our flocks, and cities for our little ones, for we will not inherit with them, if you will do this, if you will take up arms, the land is subdued, after that you shall return and be free of obligation, build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep, and do what you have promised, your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, to battle, the land shall be subdued before you, the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us, the land and its cities with their territories, and they gave other names to the cities which they built, he settled in it, after its own name, their starting places, stage by stage, and these are their stages according to their starting places, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there, set out, encamped, set out, set out, and encamped, and encamped in the wilderness, was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died, and they set out, and encamped in the mountains, and encamped in the plains, say to the people, when you pass over, then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, you shall inherit the land by lot according to your families, those of them whom you let remain shall be as pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell, command the people, say to them, your south side shall be from the wilderness, your southern boundary shall be from the end of the Salt Sea on the east, for the western boundary, this shall be your western boundary, this shall be your northern boundary, you shall mark out your eastern boundary, and the boundary shall go down, and reach to the shoulder of the sea, and its end shall be at the Salt Sea, the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance, these are the names of the men, of the tribes of the sons, for the people, command the people, the cities shall be theirs to dwell in, and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their livestock and for all their beasts, and you shall measure, the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit the manslayer to flee, then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there, these six cities shall be for refuge, for the stranger and for the sojourner, but if he struck him down with an instrument of iron, so that he died, then he is a murderer, the murderer shall be put to death, the avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death, when he meets him, when he meets him, the man must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest, but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession, you shall accept no ransom for the life of the murderer, you shall not thus pollute the land in which you live, you shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, every one of the people, shall cleave to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers, for each of the tribes of the people, shall cleave to its own inheritance, these are the commandments and the ordinances Text, The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Revised Standard Version, Catholic edition, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1966. ![]() Wittgenstein on Translation In this paper I shall discuss Hans-Johann Glock's recent interpretation of the later Wittgenstein's views on translation (2008). (Glock builds on some earlier work by Peter Hacker (1996).) According to Glock, the later Wittgenstein advocates a form of conceptual relativism very closeto the position outlined and rejected in Donald Davidson's famous paper "On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme" (1974/1984):Wittgenstein is a scheme-content dualist; he holds that there are radically different conceptual schemes; and he maintains that at least some of the languages expressing different conceptual schemes are incommensurable. And yet, Glock does not believe that Wittgenstein's position is threatened by Davidson's attack on conceptual relativism.Indeed, Glock argues that Wittgenstein himself in good part supplies us with the arguments needed for a counterattack on key pillars of Davidson's classic text. ![]() DEEPTI MEMORIES Rainbow in the sky stars in the moonlight, flowers in the sunbeam, melts your heart, perfume your dream n illusion, euphoria lightens your way, waves sensualize your skin shell, real flavor taste "recreation" gives us the dreamy aroma of life, enlighten n spark your illusion, fragrant with flavored life, thrill n cheer u along the way, moon color sensation absorb everyone, u, me, everyone feels the same moon, connect everyone heart with equal waves. in your hearts of heart, recollection, reminder, remembrance, touch the heat to the depth, perfume and refresh your feel, enrich your chain of vibrations, thread every string with enigmatic smile, every moment ripen the harvest, grand gift as a companion. vision create expectation and desire, positive, sanguine, promising, flower with optimistic assurity, flair of confidence and encouragement, expect all being well most likely, aspire the best to be happened, discover the key to amplify your life, held eternal by the living. Esse in Vacuum Dei ![]() I On this luminous day, The sun beamed through my window, Enveloping my unformed mind. It took me so far away, yet infinitely close; To the depths of my inner sphere, A world of immeasurable possibilities, A world containing all images. In this Void I saw all, The lives that have long passed, and The illusory ones of the present; Places beyond space and time, But the future I could not foresee, For through it I had yet to walk. As I began exploring Vacuum Dei, Vacuum Dei entered my mind. A voice that was no voice spoke: The mind is Your only gateway to me. The mind, He said, allows You to breath underwater. The mind, She said, insights triangles, squares, and enneacontakaienneagons in nature. The mind, It said, holds the universe together. I am one with the voice that is Vacuum Dei: See what is in front of You, Touch the meager of heart, Hear the tongueless, Taste the sorrows, Decipher the maze I set forth. But first, You must free your mind from Maya. Un-manacle its power. Fear no one, for You are the Righteous, Fear no one, for You are the Holy, Fear no one, for You are Man, In You, Divine Breath dwells, Invincible and Indestructible. In here, a ferocious balance dwells, Your escape from Orion, Each with its own line to etch But these words are deeper in meaning Than Your tamed mind can absorb. Subdue them, and You will live wisely. II The child, an instant later becomes the ancient. The still green flower becomes a tree, Simplicity is lost forevermore. The seed becomes a destiny That she cannot yet claim-nor ignore. What is a child in this world, If not a lily that adorns a lake? Removed from the evils of the world, Untouched by them, Yet in time feels them all. What is a child to do? The unrequested wisdoms of the dread ancients befall Her. Nowhere to flee, No one to guide. Who is to give Her counsel, In a task the prudent earthly elders shun? She listens to the winds for answers, Winds that gather truths from every land and every time, But she is barely old enough to comprehend. The moon reminds her of the Sun's path to Vacuum Dei; But its reflected light freezes her in separation. III In search of an answer, She kneels Attempts to go back to the moment Of the marriage between the grandfather clock and the heart. Like a lion cub watching its prey, An Angel seized the moment, and Shared his form of wisdom: "Why does this lucid realization make you so afraid? With this newfound wisdom, The Lord seized your mind. In the Void that is eternal and infinite, You embraced the Lord. The Lord showed you all, The breaths that are long gone, and The lives your mission will touch. The Lord showed you your path to wisdom: The angles of darkness you will eliminate, The delights you will manifest, The evils you will face. In this Void, you have seen the Lord, and Have been given the key to heaven, Allow me to guide your mission!" IV He questions nothing! Through years of pondering the Angel's words, I realize that, unlike his My mission is no crusade, But war against myself to free myself, To free the divine imagination within a mortal life. In Vacuum Dei I learned that Each soul passes through this world Only to move to another- An infinite cycle The breaths we take Are also to give life to new inspirations, The fragmented lives we live Are also to touch one another, The laughter and sadness Are also to weave us together. There are no religions forged from Vacuum Dei, Only in our minds, only in their purest forms Vacuum Dei is a part of us, And we are a part of its eternal emptiness. But I had to accept That life in this world Is an ephemora, Before I could endeavor To flare the Void in the yet unaware I had to accept the blessing, Before I could pass it on to another. I had to recall Vacuum Dei in me, To call out the Void that is You. Susan Berishaj. Literature and Religious Studies student at NYU. Presenting SIMON PERCHIK < ![]() You put up the roof creaking under each arm as if this tree knows when and climbs till its leaves no longer heat the Earth --you set aside rooms for the roots that opened into hillsides turning away and with the last nail you build hallways the way river water still carries off the smell from leaves falling on wet roads already along the branches :wave after wave with no one in your arms --you save a place for the door to grasp this shaky house and there will be children all next Spring climbing out and fruit that has the heaviness from rolling on the ground. * The wiring inside this bulb wants only to stay dry and along the night after night the sun covers with water that darkness brings from the sea gathered around it as sleep and falling to the ground though the dead have always held up their arms and with their last breath winding down the way rain breaks apart on the bedrock they stack over your heart filling it stone by stone used to the sudden weight spreading out on the floor --without looking down you are towed across a darkness still moist, that has no name except its common cries and Esther. * All that's left on the wall is the sea --this wooden frame year after year crushing its shadow and against some reef as if a rock once broken apart will lower the dead barefoot, step by step to make the path the sun uses for its descent into daylight into the bowl, chair, stale bread now shoreless, sent to the bottom the way each still-life is painted with that hungry brush only a wall can take to its mouth and crumble from emptiness --you clasp what was a sail whose only heart has shut down adrift between your arms smelling from the beautiful dress almost touching the floor. * As if the sun lets its darkness take hold and night after night your hand begin that vague ripple from there to here --your arm becomes some ancient wave and you can't stop or slow the unraveling or along each step by step the stillness all light attracts once it stands at the door --you have no choice! it's hello or be left, breathing in just to stretch out and keep moving --you can't be born without these stars in motion --you can't die either though each evening brings you another mourner, one alongside the other nomads along the road where once a dark sea covered the sky set it adrift, first as a warm breeze then the hillsides slowly over your heart. * Once this bedroom door is closed the rug deals in flowers, its dark scent reaching up where your eyes expect sunlight and miles away the heady whiff from a firefly --already she's naked the woman you just this minute inhaled, a deep breath who can't see, has to feel along the grass though the dead still stake a claim and never leave --the room is locked with the fragrance stones come for --it's a little room a place you keep for yourself so the door can become the distance that fastens her arms to yours and you wait for the pathways to fall inside your throat as the cry for footsteps filled with kisses and fingernails and the rug torn apart for rags smells from loneliness from the mouth you will gently place over her heart and time to time. Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. For more information, including free e-books, his essay titled "Magic, Illusion and Other Realities" and a complete bibliography, please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com. ![]() The Eagleman Dawn Robey The eagleman said I could too So I took the plunge into the icy void The freezing silence of falling to the jagged rocks below snapped as I was lifted by the mighty pull of the wind-blown wings on my back the Eagleman said I could too and laughed a little at my pale face as we flew on in time it really hurt hair and feathers ruffled and tangled skin a slow scream of ice hot-blood bumps through my joints through my head sweat singes my eyes trickling, tickling down my spine like my mind's eye is crying and when I thought "I can't take this anymore" we reached our destination perched on the cliff sharing the meat the eagleman and I laughed into the moon For Tjarke Maas R.I.P Dawn Robey's Rainbow Frank C. Praeger That There Were When was there ever, will there be any, would that there were. Covered with confetti, streets of color, A landscape I never imagined, a loon I never heard, conversations that were not meant, people that were not present. Red topped by yellow eclipsed by night. Immense and fallen pillars. Incontestable, secular stones, and sacred rites. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Echoes I hear echoes - a sobering clank of metal on metal. Nothing prepares for whispers of strickened voices, whimpering howls, and fallen bodies. I hear echoes - selves cast out as ephemeral, downed and rolled to no fitter end than dark, than dank, than, at their very last, a last unremitting pain. I hear echoes - not yet forgotten, just beyond a nonsensical play on sense, as if there were no other. A somber parade toward lack, past parting, water-breaking, daunting take of unabiding fact. I hear echoes; a race to outrun having been stumbling, grunting, chastized, half-crazed to be as I was, now, not constrained, not stayed, shaken though, whispering my name. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discounted Relieved, not quite, it's always difficult, stepped on, nearly trampled, discounted in the crowded aisles, evading questions, shouting obscenities. I have done it before and will again. Who has retained their magical being, an iffy quest? After so many years, decades, amazed at the increasing diminishment of each succeeding day. I have been cut, have witnessed bloodied forefingers, scalp, scrotum, laughable the digitizing divvied out, nor happy even with formalities retained; ridden down hallways stairs as overhead a supernova begins to fade. Not doomed, compelled more than any directive, as, also, two chipmunks pause; and now this day, too, passes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carrying-on I can not stop. Isn't it so. It's always someone or something, rather than flowers, wild flowers, and now less weighty than it might have been, but not funny, or is that just me? I do try. I have always been susceptible to being teary eyed. And now these snippets are what remain. Could it have been otherwise, more warranted than rewarded, magician of unfathomable gestures, each day now thrusts me further than I want. If I could I would have flowers, wild flowers, as witness. I've given up. Let pieces dangle. Again, where are the flowers, wild flowers, dust-laden road side efflorescences. Conscious of dull, forgetful, trivial, and lost. But better, purple loose strife, rose-bay willow herb, Joe Pye weed, notwithstanding clouds of midges. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slumber and Then Some Slumber, eh, nearly dead. Coreopsis finished, purple cones arrogant and alone. I stumble in a field of dry wild grass of withered knapweed, dulled tansy, under fungus darkened, splotched maple leaves. Why wild flowers, wild grass, trees? There are our storied errors and exploits, our foundationalless senseless sense of yes, still more wild flowers, wild grass, even, mock orange. Wasp? Rage? Terror - I would be... a delicate spider web, tethered to a last grasp. The last to knock at the door said "I'm dying". No relief. To shrug off someone else's pain? Easy? I'm no Marlowe. There's nothing fictional about it. STILL, STILL William Blome My mule was blue, yours was purple, and both were grazing on Olivia's farm near the outskirts of Fargo. The farm had earlier been chosen for a commercial film-shoot advertising Danish-modern furniture, and the production crew had just gone back to Fargo after a final dry-run of preparation. But on this day, several happy-go-lucky pastels artists, seeking a vantage point for sketching an everyday prairie landscape, had found the mules and the furniture one huge anomaly on the stereotypical plains, so much so that two of the angered artists conspired to chalk both mules brown and then set the now-stored furniture ablaze in its trailer. The bonfire thus caused hung dense, foul smoke in the still, still air for close to three hours. That was more than enough time to suffocate your mule, leaving me now the sole owner of a sick, mauve mule. Importantly, I have become the only eyewitness in the State's court case against the pastels artists. Olivia, an absentee landowner who has hardly ever set foot in North Dakota, was just cabled that on this still, still day, her farm sustained only minimal, almost-laughable damage from the fire. Tingting 1. i carry with me at all times the imperfect faithing, the red card said roses are dead, but the blue card tells me many finches will be ready for breakfast-------------------- i'm in a place where the stranger thing is to collapse what and shift the rest, into seeds and frequently short boys i pickle the last trails of language, it tells me pain, many finches, nausea, cyber-God, and open lenses before it turns o' its side and falls asleep in the shape of a Bodhi tree fish are jaded and improper (so i let you claim a side of blank-field-street, eat well and blue moons waving trees) 2. August Body your face, filling up the cusps of my chewed-up hands slender meets serrated knife edges clean, sea-under-disneyland drifting billowing and clenching i statically remain a vibrant seizure the problem is i am -less against you zone out into my autumn-less, looped-back body, in those goldgreen suns unparalleled in my desire (a corpse in the ground/mound 6 feet in 6 feet out) dear boy wrap my black widow legs around your neck so that the goldgreen sun may be my pRIVATE pLEASURE (flashy flashy flashy) burrow your face into my spine 86 GOIN' ON 100 blink/breathe to the sun's revolutions invincible, dear boy desire but i am -less so in the murky tiled reflection find my spine a desert snake hiding from sun 3. Frigid on a bench, I am on my left with a boy holding a book Law. Sleep, I think, "Under what?" Sipping you, I say to the girl on my right after the boy on my left leaves and Law leaves with him. Transparent stripes, restless. In my eye, the sun blaring in my ears, the music curdling, my eyes flushing on my skin droplets that she knows when the wind rushes. Missing you holding my spine with numb hands, the rays are something new maybe something dead too. A Talented Iberian who travels under the name of a certain star - monsieur Joao Caerqueira DANGEROUS LOVE What is dangerous love? Love is like rain passing over an island undoing its barrenness, beating back forces of desertification, killing the seeds of famine in the land before they germinate sowing horror in the bellies of the afflicted. Dangerous love is acid rain, or rain that is unrelenting, causes mudslides crushing newlyweds in their hill-bottom Arubian houses. Dangerous love, Some people, authorities, church officials and orthodoxies, electronic voices, burning bushes and saints and prophets we remember through animatronic puppets pretending to be St. Augustine, saints and prophets in money-launderer- owned Biblical theme-parks, say all love is dangerous, all sexual love, the spark burning between bodies chasing one another through the winter streets out of State-sanctioned mating season without the proper papers or coupons of the invisible collosus bureaucracies weighing down on our vertebrae like a great false temple of Nero and the Antichrist. The new Pope says love is not dangerous within the confines of marriage and the right coupons, but he conceals that all his predecessors and previous Bishops of Rome pre-Vatican II were the enemies of Love, working in a great Stalingrad war-effort against Love which is like terrorism or anarchism, Love made peasants hammer their sickles into saracen swords and slit the vocal chords of landed noblemen and sodomized them to protect their right and that of their offspring to be outlaws in love. Love now is all over the soap operas and condom packages and insurance ads, love is safe now but in your great great ancient peasant grandmother old whore's time love was dangerous and against the law like usury, Jewish interest rates and altars to the blessed, pre-Jesus gods that Christian saints incinerated with fireballs from their X-ray stares and from their arse holes. Love was AMOR, ROMA spelled backwards, a reversal of the centers of power and the Papacy and the warlord marauder kings in fortresses of bones proclaiming their vast expanses of dirt to be the new Rome. AMOR was anti-imperialist. Love was like rusty daggers and forbidden Soma narcotics in the hands of a dust-caked serf or smelly pariah. Love potions were like crack only made you more in tune with the planets and the muses and opened up antennas in your psyche to illegal radio broadcasts from the Devil who was really a god of rivers and mercy that a coup overthrew and banished to Mexico. Love-aphrodisiacs then made you mug noblewomen at knife-point, steal jewels like a magpie bird for your beloved and dance with hibiscus flowers in your hand and nightingale wine in your throat-tract under the meteor showers on days reserved for self-flagellation and fasting. Love was breaking the coordinated system of controlling human fertility, a regime in the testicles and ovaries, coupling the lowly together with manacles so the saints, the social coordinators and heavenly bureaucrats, could practice population control and condemn sexual love while they at night got high and fornicated with Sophia, the female spirit of knowledge, and with succubi, nymphs of the prohibited religions, and the muses of St. Augustine, as they listened to Devil music, naked, snorting powdered pearls and Druid potions and play Slavic Roulette with warrior-aristocrat pistols. Now love is in the radiowaves and the billboards, like ads for vacations to Aruba so Americans can buy cocaine in the Caribbean and Dutch tourists can seek negro and Latina sex for euros. Love is not dangerous anymore, love is like alcohol-free beer, like fake absinthe you buy in Czech republic that does not make you see green faeries; its prophylactic, tis available online, depirved of its violence of nightingale wing-flurry in cat's mouths, of engine-train orgasm carrying woman into Stalingrad night. It's legal like mock-opium-den coffee-shops and Zeedijk Amsterdam and magic mushroom retails, legalized gay-marriage. Those who love love's being dangerous, must lobby for the re-criminalization of love, of Amor, to honor the memory of martyred troubadours like trampled hibiscus the inquisition torture mills ground in their metal teeth and incinerated in their bellies. Love must be criminal, illegal instead of synthetic, legal safe love absurd as cacti without thorns. The Islamic religious police must bust the flower shops and arrest those who buy budleida and hibiscus. -Arturo Desimone 2010 Utrecht AMSTERDAM (AMSTERDIM) City of illusions, province You are not impeccable your citizens look all healthy and secure not a spot on the streets not a bum no bone spillage no resticle of death having walked here smoked here rubbed his hands, combed his airs here no cigarettes whores stay behind the glass tigers behind plexi-bars in zoos (But the town of my heart is where the tigers walk free no one gets in their way they smoke they laugh they sell they chatter on terraces the smarter, more serious tigers stand on the rooftops painting ikons, songs and frescoes) City where no cab driver has his hands bandaged up where his thumb got torn where the old are hidden in the cargo hold great plastic shoeboxes under the earth when age makes their faces fall with every tear of widower lung cancer every fear kept in a clean glass City where no newspaper reader can scream talking to himself about archaic politics in the street such men are kept in a special tube where children will not be frightened upon hearing what the wheels of industry did to a man with a strong mind and a weak soul or vice versa City where the swans in the red lit lagoon don't reveal they are really geese that will bite your hand, just there for decoration where pink neon elephant of the strip-bar where old Latinas dance on a bad dey, his pink trunk and ears shrink he's pink pig with a snout and an elastic nose-job demon of swinery and not the god Ganesha by Arturo Demone Hotel Studenki Piasht Piastowska, Krakow winter Dear Anastomoo, (G-n-sh peace be upon him cold month of the death of Wyzslawa Zymborska) HAIKU FROM A HEART I FORGTO SOMEWHERE IN NOWA HUTA Haiku from a heart I forgot somewhere in Nowa Huta 0001115 D Centrum B Though I could have, maybe should have, a szozna tree in my pants, I did not rape krasotka in the kitchen. Instead we discussed the revindication of the historic name-image of Socialist Realist art visible in the ruins winged-heart-shaped archictecture of Nowa Huta. After this I drew a portrait of her. She liked it how I depicted her as a mermaid, a Sirenka, (like Szawa, from the bourgeois legend of Vars and Szawa, I kept myself from saying) she preferred this to how her boyfriend had painted her as a squirrel. He had quit art to become a software engineer. I forgot to quote Jean Francois Millet and say how though I used my fingers, I paint with my penis. Respectfully yours, Dale Johnson Nelson, New Hampshire, USA Conscience Judge Dale R Johnson Jr May 2012 Conscience Judge o’re oiled lashes Gathering beams of slurried ashes Billows wake the bow’s misleading Rolling swells of sense proceeding High upon the Van Gogh’s breaking Riv’s of ice and time forsaken O’re the vast eternities High upon the Pyrenees Desert rims of plain and canyon Golden mesa guard companion All along the grand crevasses Painted natives dance their dances Conscience Judge of none forgiving Quarrelling to blight the living Falling stars in silence sigh Longing love to draw them nigh Down the darkened cavern’s bow Serpentine encrusted flow Dripstone teeth of arrows tracing Flights of bats to hell erasing Descartes’ Eye the milky globe Vain to view beyond behold Ne’re the Conscience Judge to find Gilded threaded reach divine An anti-feminist poem: A New Statute of women's rights Women have the right to be weaker, at times than male athletes and not only to be champion Atalanta striving for superiority Women have the right to, at times, be underneath, receptive, quiet and empty like the valley like the valley after sundown there is no mystery more resilient nor more full Women have the right also to silence and not be the phones of mechanical democracy Women have the right to not cook to see their children taken to a commune as they call to them crying women have a right to be fed by a man to let him cook and feed her with spoon to her mouth If a man feeds a woman she has surrendered They have the right to cry without going outside. Women have the right to surrender not carry the oars of a nest floating nowhere and to be poor readers of poetry books and not only dictators and CEOs who lay off workers and order companies to bulldoze mud villages like the male primates of the Polis do. women who have these rights are freer, more interesting In love's monsoon and absence it is their breaths at night that propel sails of weak and strong ships. by Arturo Desimone, Piashtowska, Poland February 7 2012, who fought for a better world. In the future, nobody will call him dictator. Finally the two armies meet in battle, but JFK proposes to fight Fidel Castro in a duel to avoid wholesale carnage. Fatima, Christ and Varadero watch the duel behind a bush. After a violent struggle, JFK overthrows Castro with a stone. Then he grabs a knife. But when everyone thought that he had killed him – to interrogate a captured Fidel Castro’s spy (Varader o). Following a testy Communism versus Capitalism debate, JFK set him free and Varadero returns to Cuba. However, his faith in Fidel Castro is shaken and the spy begins to suspect that he is supporting the wrong side. attention from his own problems Fidel’s's army invades part of JFK’s country but cannot conveniently convince the inhabitants of the advantages of Marxism. Whilst peasants refuse a land reform, whores prefer free enterprise. Castro is then forced to ask Varadero for advice. Varadero seizes the opportunity accusing him of having betrayed the revolution and responsible for Cuba’s misery. Disturbed and distressed, Fidel isolates himself in unknown territory and follow realizes that he is about to be overthrown. Suspecting Varadero betrayed him, Fidel imprisons the spy as he previously did with the revolutionary hero Camilo Ochoa[1]. Desperate, he decides to invade JFK’s country as a way to divert people's ing a fall which leaves him amnesiac. He is found by monks who take him to a soli tary convent where mad people are ministered by the Church. Once inside he see’s the fools are enslaved, Castro starts a revolution against the friars. The course of events reignites his memory. God receives a request for help from Fatima because a war between Fidel Castro and JFK is about to start. Worried, God asks his son Jesus to return to Earth and difuse the conflict. Meanwhile, JFK and his counselor ar e about to interrogate a captured Fidel Castro’s spy (Varadero). Following a testy Communism versus Capitalism debate, JFK set him free and Varadero returns to Cuba. However, his faith in Fidel Castro is shaken and the spy begins to suspect that he is supporting the wrong side. In Cuba, F idel Castro faces protests on the streets and By this time, Christ has arrived on Earth accompanied by Fatima, who is convinced she can create a miracle to avoid the ultimate battle between JFK and Fidel Cast ro. Back with his army, Fidel Castro receives a visit from the Devil and makes a pact: he sells his soul in exchange for being remembered as a heromuch like David and Goliath – it transpires that JFK had only cut Castro’s beard. At that moment, miraculously, an eclipse occurs. About me: I'm me… and now 27-ish years of age… Angry, sad, happy, promiscuous, wrong, sober, well maybe… Alive and noticing, experienced in death, strong, not so, can be, would be… Lazy, asleep, but very much awake, -ish… In Hobart… and outside of it… apart of, but not… Lost… Weak, but only when broken… Alone, single and in love… Free, trapped, happy, hungry, horny, blessed, or maybe just high… Umm… I play guitar… -ish… And I like candles… Music… yummy music… mmm… my friends… Looking… not sure what for… just looking… Legless, blunt, honest, sober… -ish… Loved… The helpless helping… Wanting, waiting, content, impatient… Can be, could be, maybe… Me… Hi… I'm Shannon… -ish… well maybe… By Shannon Duyst A Gift for Mrs. Ibsen The cliché connects the ordinary to the sea Which haunts everything and everyone, Its shells in our mountains, crabs making free Of Atlantis at our rivers' destination. Though Henrik Ibsen was ice himself, he knew That a gravitational persuasion Would draw him gradually oceanward to Depths that matched his imagination, Those depths, where the quadrivium reigns, And language is silent before gravity, The spirit of music in darkening domains, Arithmetic of pressure, geometry From Egypt, in whose burning, prophetic land He purchased a mummified lady's hand. Cruelty is not a hunger but a distinct lack Of one, and when one tries to eliminate Error, the consequence is a setback For what one hopes to facilitate. Stevens wrote while walking to work, his pace A counterpoint to improvisation Accumulating liveliness and grace Like the feathery flow of cash accumulation. Donne's plodding mule gave otherwise A spiritual turn to a mundane expedition, Awakening the heart of passionate surmise As a poet dutifully fulfilled his mission. And cruelty? Felt universally Within and without, invincibly involved In life's blind trade, the shade of vacancy, Augustine argued, not to be resolved: A dead-end street in darkness where we Ask idiotically, "What about me?" Ad Fontes Again If a bird's voice proclaims he is not there And gravity denies its appetite, And grammar itself shrugs, law does not care, And madness has gone to sleep, why fight Unless the very friction of conflict Provides a reason to contradict? The angels of the universe conceal, With subtle motions of their blessed wings, The cursed truth, whose logical appeal Defaces and distorts all valued things. Though John the Baptist headed off the rise Of misbegotten insight, cogent lies, Across the Jordan still come countless tribes Of envy-driven scholars, horn-tooting scribes. Five Poems by R. W. Haynes Dallas: The Parthenon Frieze One of my neighbors in Dallas told me How great it was that Robert E. Lee Whipped those sorry Germans' asses. He (my neighbor) was laying brick, you see, When other boys were attending classes. Kitty Lee, who might have been related To the General, gave me a deadly knife A man, who didn't want to kill his wife, Gave her one night, pretty well sedated, And not having a tip. "Hell fire, honey, I already got a knife," she said to me, "But I told him to forget about the money And go home, and be real careful on the ride, The son of a bitch." When my car died Silently in a frantic intersection , Two old roughnecks backed through this convection In a battered truck, bullied others aside, Turned around in the traffic, parked just right (Each guy brandishing a can of Coors Light), Got out of the truck and turned the tables, For they had General Lee's jumper cables. "Try not to let it die in an intersection, "And park it," one said, "in a downhill direction." Don't Diss the Sign Post Don't say anything bad about destiny, Whose bullets may sometimes seem to fly wide But, in a boomerang trajectory, Before you duck, they suddenly glide Right through your agenda, and, bang, that's all, Cancel all appointments; goodnight, Irene, Everything goes misty, you shrug and fall. So keep careful reverence in your routine For forces which demand this courtesy: The circumambience of that respect Generates mystic electricity Whose invisible gleam will direct A haunted mind needing consolation To some delectable destination. A Less-Distinguished Contingent of the Damned They are, after all, the enemy, Though conscripted miserably, blind, And hungry, clawing clumsily to find Friends, hope, status, some quality Otherwise denied, capitulation Before these restless urges going at A bargain price in that desperation, Yes, all that is true; we know all that. But they have learned to relish these Evil tricks, and now they smirk inside; Gloating buffoons, they greasily seize All the vivid candy that feeds their pride. So let their hot-air balloons catch fire As each one finds its fatal live wire. LES MYSTES By Matthieu Baumier Texts translated from the original French into English by Elizabeth Brunazzi #1 We have gone to the earth, We have gone beneath the oak, Facing the stillness of The winged speech of the world. The oak is inscribed on the earth, The wings of the world folded within, Nothing moves. In that place stones and trees converse, In that place stars and clouds empty out The unmoving crease of the world. We have gone toward the eye Of the sun, We have gone inside the bark Of the silver birch, And the wild cherry trees. In the silence of the heart, the immobility Of the tree, We have gone there. In places far off from men, without language, Vanity, We have gone. #2 For my son, Abel Before leaving I placed my last kiss At the edge of the stars, Rain is falling on the prayer Before leaving I spoke with the torrent On the shore of disaster Rain is falling on the prayer The skies broke apart Over the waters, the earth. A flicker, and the wind Splits the drops from the tree. It is the oldest of stories The statue of salt, The one of men. In the distance The execution of forests Near symphonies playing in the dawn light. These are the ages of our history Buried beneath the tears of prayer. note: All reproduction of English translations by permission of Elizabeth Brunazzi and Matthieu Baumier. To the memory of René Char I am writing from this instant the aftertime of the world's end. There where, Tears of rain flow Where words take the secret shapes Of indecipherable vigils. I am living through the passage of the soul There where, Stones inscribe The landscape in flames. I am living in the wake of phantom armies And my eye comprehends only this silence. I am writing from this instant the aftertime of the world's end And I assume a smile Torn from the blood of stars. I say this: Let prose go silent now And let the spirit of water spring forth. Translated from the original French into English Elizabeth Brunazzi 4-10-2012 Saint Joshua of the Long Thought 788: mediocre at best she'll claim more though mediocre at best there was a knock on the door but who it was never quite presented itself opportunities abound now as we roll around in the mattresses foiling youth into leaving for the night as we played the games burnt into our flesh. 789: rodents count cars as they pass remembering each granule in the sidewalk as an ancestor recalling the blood in the tip of each finger each nail scratched a line to crawl back to. rodents count many things besides this though we, too busy, fail to yield to the desires that die behind our eyes. 790: the stage played out empty the crowd all weary too full of drink to carry on and be merry the legs can only dance a jig when they're on a high and with the pain management doctors on vacation nobody is left to ease the growths or the pain they cause. 791: too much olive in the glass for more and much more would only kill the rest of the imagination but as the wind stirs the bottom and the eyes peel away we're left to see ourselves standing outside the doorway. 792: emotional too emotional for cognition we'll develop poorly in the humidity and the west is too much for the pockets emotional we'll play and land our hearts to the side of the heavy let us rest now for the highway makes our minds grow less-than-weary. 793: we're just tokens for the thought and with it, we'll sort more than a Saturday out of the bridges that we're burning. it all means more than the page its written on yet from the window the second-story doesn't provide enough height to give justice to our desires. we're just tokens for the wise and practiced the ones who slaughtered through the night we watch our fascinations turn into Hollywood and then die before the edge of the night. Doug Draime Bones Bones of constant regrets Bones of dreams in nothingness Bones of all the bodies in all the wars in universal time Bones of rotting bones Bones of fine white dust Bones of John Wilkes Booth, decaying in Mary Lincoln’s nightmares Bones of black bodies hanged & burned in Mississippi in the 1920’s to cheers Bones of politics Bones of rituals & ceremonies Bones of Hannibal preserved in his own shit & blood Bones of hipsters still hanging on every word of Nat Hentoff Bones of Indian babies burned to death by the United States Calvary Bones of rats jammed in walls in tenement apartments across the rodent world Bones of all the horses who ever ran the second race at Hollywood Park Bones of the dogs from hell & A Season In Hell Bones of all the lies in all the mouths of all egos since The Ego Bones of promises never kept Bones of fragmented nonsense, which attempts to alter unalterable spirit Bones of remorse & guilt Bones of mountains & rivers & oceans Bones of Rimbaud’s Drunken Boat Bones of one solid brick shit house Bones of whales on the butchered shores of slaughter Bones of happenstance & bones of circumstance Bones of desperation & hate & misery Bones of angst & pathos Bones of the stagnant & polluted air between you & me Bones of Thelonious Monk’s dead cat Bones of situations & occurrences that never were Bones of a butterfly in the eye of beauty’s release Bones of anger & fear & betrayal Bones of Sigmund Freud’s dominating mother Bones of eagles hidden behind a dark cloud of sorrow & mourning Bones of Edgar Bergen’s talking wooden people Bones of finite spiritual concepts Bones of Dylan Thomas perpetually lamenting the coming of the night Bones of the monks of Tibet under enslavement & Chinese torture Bones of limits & bones of borders Bones of all forms Bones of you & bones of me Bones of the mansions of our decadence Bones of temptation & disaster Bones of the vertical & horizontal Bones of afterwhiles & later-ons Bones of tears shed for nothing that is truly real Bone of The Little Prince still looking for love, but there are no bones of love Bones of greed & gross gluttony Bones of flapping hands, without a clue, at the dawn of day Bones of Mickey Mantle limping into home plate at Yankee Stadium Bones of all languages & bones of The Tower of Babel Bones of coffins & concrete Bones of the smoldering ovens at Asti & Flossenburg Bones of bleak apologies made at the altar of emptiness Bones of Al Jolson in blackface Bones of mystics & bones of prophets Bones of America’s Reconstruction Bones of Walt Whitman chanting electric in the hospital wards of Washington, D.C. Bones of gamma rays & bones of gravity Bones of injustice & tyranny Bones of mushrooms & bones of LSD Bones of The Manassa Mauler, Jack Dempsey, still mauling Bones of 40 year old land mines still maiming & killing Bones of the give & take of flagrant pointlessness Bones of time & bones of space Bones of everything forgotten that never was Bones of compensation & lost wages Bones of peaceful swans swimming in a pond, but there are no bones of peace Bones of Socrates pulsating crystal remnants of hemlock Bones of compromise & bones of malicious theft Bones of abstract threats thrown at the face of pure innocence Bones of Lenny Bruce still satirizing hypocrisy Bones of poems sharp & penetrating as a dagger plunged in the heart of darkness Bones of tragedy & bones of blood suckers Bones of tulips once blossoming under a kitchen window Bones of frantic chaotic movement & bones of voices detached from sound Bones of deception & those eyes you couldn’t read Bones of rage & stupidity Bones of sacrifice & bones of the absurdity of martyrdom Bones of curses which only curse the curser Bones of diamonds & bones of gold & topaz Bones of all the pimps & whores & junkies in downtown Los Angeles Bones of burden & responsibility Bones of Lord Byron’s fist smashing through his plaster walls Bones of hunger Bones of starvation Bones of huge black hawks flying in other dimensions Bones of Ellis Island & bones of Alcatraz Bones of heroes & bones of cowards Bones of one hand clapping, but there are no bones of silence Bones of Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn & bones of Becky Thatcher Bones of sarcasm & one-upmanship Bones of Descartes & bones of mechanistic interpretations of nature Bones of mud & rain & snow & wind Bones of Romans & Mongols & Vikings Bones of censorship & bones of blacklisting Bones of the broken heart of Dalton Trumbo Bones of universities & bones of education Bones of meadowlarks & blue jays & bones of great horned owls Bones of the worshipping of idols & bones of polytheism Bones of seeming death Bones of hollowed eyes Bones of crocodiles eating their own bones in the Okefenokee Swamp Bones of cheap motel rooms & reeking bars Bones of all prey hunted & seized Bones of all the planets & stars & moons & suns in all creation Bones of the crust of earth & lithosphere Bones of & in the graveyards of the mind Bones of irreverent testaments & reams of data Bones of all perceptions Bones of inner festering corruption Bones of Pharaoh, King Cheops, piled up on the Khufu ship to the afterlife Bones of alienation & bones of hopelessness Bones of the Ice Age & bones of jungle fever Bones of European-Anglo-American brainwashing Bones of opposition & bones of separation Bones of instant gratification & bones of cowering sell-outs Bones of all accumulated knowledge Bones of physics & bones of robotics & bones of cyber-gymnastics Bones of literary trends Bones of elitism & bias Bones of judgment & bones of condemnation Bones of cornfields & bones of rice paddies & bones of wheat Bones of T.S. Eliot & bones of Franz Kafka Bones of James Joyce & bones of Albert Camus Bones of the old truck tire that hung from the sycamore tree Bones of hurricanes & tsunamis & bones of floods & tornadoes Bones of earthquakes & volcanic eruptions & bones of forest fires Bones of captivity & bones of shackles & bones of prisons Bones of shake & bones of rattle & bones of roll Bones of rappers & bones of scat singers Bones of Hank Williams & Tupac Shakur in the back seats of their Cadillacs Bones of the Burning Ring Of Fire Bones of selfishness & impatience Bones of throbbing streams of thoughts Bones of tossing & heaving & swaying down into a vast gully of confusion Bones of eunuchs & bones of venomous puncturing fangs Bones of yearning Bones of flux & bones of static Bones of doom & bones of despair Bones of outrageous utterances & bones of all ideas Bones of bedbugs & bones of fleas & bones of the beloved cockroach Bones of dialectics & bones of words flashed in neon across the fallen nation Bones of Atlantis Bones of submarines & battleships & bones of Flying Death Machines Bones of Beethoven’s deaf ears Bones of One Eyed Jack’s fractured hand Bones of barricades & bones of the bloody streets of revolution Bones of all the plans of mice & men & bones of calculation Bones of John Steinbeck & bones of James Dean Bones of the withered id Bones of oil & bones of swinish trancelike consumers Bones of insatiable thirsts Bones of twilight & bones of dusk Bones of fault & bones of blame Bones of tigers & bones of jackals & bones of laughing hyenas Bones of the splinters in Helen of Troy’s beautiful ass Bones of the prime directive & bones of the mission accomplished Bones of shadowy cathedrals & churches of the communion of insecure self Bones of definition & bones of examination Bones of heroin & bones of meth & bones of cocaine Bones of energy & bones of demented fusion Bones of Nietzsche, in torment, embracing a whipped horse Bones of computers & bones of televisions Bones of your neighbor with his finger on the trigger Bones of the multi-layered assemblies of blindness Bones of Holden Caulfield & bones of Randle Patrick McMurphy Bones of Sebastian Dangerfield & bones of Don Quixote Bones of idle conversations & gossip & bones of pompous debates Bones of targets & bones of X marks the spot Bones of Dizzy’s puffed-out cheeks still blowing the utopian cool of jazz Bones of luxurious wealth & the ashes of paper money Bone of The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter & the bones of Carson McCullers Bones of Marco Polo’s intrepid footsteps through Asia Bones of desolation & bones of used cars in the junkyards of all our souls Bones of whoppers & bones of wonders Bones of spin & bones of media & bones of government control Bones of inharmonious mixtures of foulness Bones of movie stars adorned like baboons Bones of Eros Bones of cultures & bones of civilizations Bones of Zeus & bones of the heel of Achilles Bones of theories & bones of results Bones of continuous toil & laboring in the downpour of sweat & blood Bones of friends & bones of enemies Bones of disgust & bones of twisted cruelty Bones of stone & bones of blowing sand & dirt Bones of heart attacks & bones of cancer Bones of atoms & DNA Bones of vexation & bones of groans & bones of screaming Bones of pettiness Bones of gaudy colored statues & bones of altars Bones of the pit of the darkest darkness, but there are no bones of light New Work by Robert Laughlin The Best Reason Ever to Commit Suicide You recognize the plot of the latest Pulitzer-winning novel from an outline you once stuffed in a bottle and threw into the sea. Label on the Editor's Wastebasket THAT UNDISCOVERED FOLDER FROM WHOSE BOURN NO MANUSCRIPT RETURNS Oakland To end this city's poverty and crime, I recommend a tried and proven way: Deport the people, one and all, in time To start a colony from San Jose. Upward Mobility At feeding time, all flora's the domain Of Kingdom Fauna, higher up the chain. That's Nature's master plan, from its inception. Too bad the Venus flytrap took exception. DIRT NAP By James Williams "I am the Lord." I am not. I'm wholly visible to Him, while I can see that which He created. I'm a member of a planet that makes concrete to topple the dirt. We place large and small slabs to our liking in dirt which we hand-tamper. The book clocks read of what we've done with our time. Adorning our works with ourselves. Luxury for temporary eternity to the highest bidder whose fear has been placed away, hidden behind charitable donations. Ticking away the curvature of each letter; I read a dollar for every turn. The depth of every bend asking you or me to ask them for more. But more will not be given, merely 'cause it can't be. The donor of our doors, our windows is gravely ill or minus ill; they've been replaced on a planet by blank. Fill her in. Proclamations - Lewis Gesner I am the if- you-have-the-stomach-for-it, the bland and repetitive, mundane and ordinary-… I am the cleaning supply of faith -… I am the development of a set unchanging motif which goes through first initial frequent changes, that gradually narrows to a few variations and then becomes cemented in a fixed and permanent image -… I am that, that the appetite expects -… I am the still ocean that moves too slow to see in a moment but which makes objects seem to shift and move, per the tide -… I am a behavior which seems set but goes through jumps and unpredictable processes, but, only infrequently -… I am the observation of the person who thinks they can make branches and leaves sway in the breeze, with the power of the mind, and with a gentle passing of a hand -… I am the crazy recluse -… I am that, that is on the water, in a fog at night in a dory - I row my wife around in circles and close to the shore so her mind can wander - there is no horizon line - only a smooth blend from the water to the air -… I am the contours of the story that is hard had, and that fact in outlook, but fiction in particular -… I am that can not blend but mixes, I am the blended which can not mix -, I have two particular natures-… they alternate like a relay switch -… I am the bird with the speedy heart, always looking for food, I am the shark with no motion in the gills- I should swim always -… Likewise, I am without reflection outside but all a hall of mirrors in my interior so what is to be reflected I am that is busy with questions away from answering -… I am today as I acted tomorrow, but yesterday, everything was changed -… I am the stumbler over the edge who is cushioned by the back of a fatty beast -… I am the flat surface which is as a crosscut and from matter to matter, much the same, but for its sheen and its density, but, the angle - is as if it has been cut for garments, the pool, the stone, the water's edge, the meeting of sky and land, or sky and water, of land approaching a tree line -… I am some one of many descriptions of a kind of movement required for a task, as part of a set of instructions for use of a manufactured object -… I am the projection of some thought idea directly in a mold making which presses matter into fabrication -… I am the tan funnel that oozes mist -… I am the sudden clusters of crows in the treetops -… I am a personification of nightfall, and the emerging of insects after the rain -… I am the talking animal from a child's nightmare -… I am the thing that wades into shallow water to collect a colorful piece of weathered glass -… I am the broken lobster trap being used for a table on a porch -… I am the bark of a tree grown around a lightning strike -… I am many saved items, in drawer, in baskets, and in storage sheds -… I am the jar, and the tin box -… I am the remorse filled, and the emptied of impulse -… I am from waste that blossomed and is renowned now for beauty and fragrance -… I am correcting sharp mounds by rubbing them with an abrasive paper, and rounding their points -… I am subjecting vocal cords to sand and helium, and stroking rough legs of crickets to mild chemical solvents and oven cleaner -… I am, and I am the doing, not the being -… I am making a rumbling sound when I move my legs, like they are made out of old logs -… I am moving all of myself, to travel -… I am loud once then adjusting, I squeak, then holler -… I am breathing twice and three times then I group my counting of my breath in different sets as I continue to breathe -… I am a noisy rubber gasket with too much lubrication -… I am shaping a sweater of leaves and sap, that will attach to my skin and help in the incineration of my body when I am cremated -… I wait for advancement, I expect it -… I feel, through tea and coffee, a burrowing in my skull, and wonder, will my brain be eaten, and will it retain its color, or drift - and, will it nourish and even provide joy -… I am retaining all the water I am drinking, and the charcoal from every fire I have started in a stove or hearth -… I am looking at something beautiful, right now -… I have peace at this very moment -… I am singing made-up songs mixed with old advertisements -… it is like feeling drunk with power battery -… I am what makes hands tremble - I am putting a child in her -… I am a long carved needle made out of balsa wood, and there is no purpose for its existence -…I am pushing so that something is straining through something else in me like a filter -… I am imagining how a casket can be made from three liquids -… I am remembering , two lobsters on a cabin floor -… I am studying the heads of each nail in a box of nails -… I am the sale with trade, the roast and the fry, and contrast of teak wood and tissue paper -… I am the natural husband of my wife -… I am glass plates shifting over each other until one falls - over the edge of another, and then, the many more that follow -… I am the development of scales for skin and overlapping shells protecting where my body creases who expose a fragile joint -… I am, distress weak covering, and strong frame holding of my shape, so I am recognized -… I am the unfamiliar steel hatch over a stairwell and cement steps into dirty basement and a branch outside that hangs low and drips dew onto the hatch in the morning, there is a circle of rust below the path of the drops -… I am the translation of an array of seven smells into ten movements of the wrist -… I am the sickening before the health -… I am the swelling of a list growing over extended time but not acted on, responsive to the growth of need -… I am the in a saturated solution that remains when evaporation is complete -… I am as a warm leaf on a cold branch -… I am as unclean extension of the clean, away from cleansing -… I am the hole with a row of words that passes below on a paper strip to be read, that is the opening to your learning something new -… I am the expectation of answers to questions, and a bitter taste coming from a mucus gland but, enjoyed, as one would taste food -… I am that which can not stop one thing for another who freezes on interruption -… I am what is slowly taken and not replaced at once -… I am early in a ceremony, sudden distraction, talking uncontrollably -… I am lonely on a beach, lonely in a bookstore but, you come and I can concentrate on working -… I am the mover that has no plan but which is responsive to the moving of its blood -… I am the stillness of indecision, and the action of the soul within a complacent room -… I am the sandwiching of experience -… I am the runoff acids from an overflowing bath -… I am a chemical agent which hardens another liquid, and which causes others to continuously flow through rainbow colors -... I am fine hairs that penetrate the skin and loosen the DNA so that a small seed may enter into it along its stem of bases -… I am a member of a small group of elements that can not mix -… I am stones buried at different depths in a shoreline mud -… I am a blade breaking off in a tree, which the tree will grow around, and put inside a secret chamber -… I am the light that warns a traveler a hole is in the path ahead -… I am a red roof, above a white ceiling -… I am that which has 2 arms, and transfers the action from one to the other in a graduation so the object of the action does not know -… I am the wedding of sweat and brain, of bacon and motor oil, of a willow branch and a white linen tunic -… I am the meeting and the hub on converging strings of conjunctions, or notched collars mounted in a line on their way to a rotating cylinder -…I am the convergence of many stillness - equally one greatness activity -… I am that's' bowels become loosened in a bath -… I am pause, in standing, a break from rest, a painting of white against white -… I am rising water leaving lines of the wall and flooding the street and the river mouth -… I am that which takes control and that which in some times, makes an elder cry for no reason, and laugh for another -… I am the spray like a liquid shaped over a moment as the spread of a fan -… I am the pounding hard on something just to see it -… I am the feel of the dream in waking, the standing back from the presentation to the eye and the amazing amazement of the fantastical truth -… I am living a dream -… I am some energy in the world -… I am the port that has been misnamed and misunderstood as a brain and a mind -… I am the force that directs the movement of the plant, and vegetable decision making -… I am the glue mister-… I am the feet of the cattle -… I am the basket made of banded metal and threads of lead -… I am the one hoping for a third foot so to balance better and for longer, using all three feet at once, or rotating the third with the use of two -… I am that which is able for a normal life, the kernel of which is held in a storage facility -… I am the dye in a turban, the same n a blanket -… I am the means to swallow -… I am the fat of the neck, the narrow neck and the muscular neck -… I am the stuffing in the turkey, and the stuffing of the teddy bear -… I am the feeling of dizziness -… I am the excess of ego shaved off and packed into a mold, and made into a composite form, and used for building bridges -… I am the west of threat, the east of appeasement -… I am the south of something, the north of nothing -… I am the difficulty standing after sitting -… I am the container holding the pigment and an attached injector that responds to the tilted or tipped container, which from it releases a second matter, turning the pigment to the many items of desire -… I am the turning of the light to the eye -… I am the large portions of small angled bone mesh that grows over internal organs of various planet various dwellers -… I am the song that turns my thought to a far place every time -…I should see the screen over the square or cube space in front of my head that, if I moved my head the distance of one head, the cube would be exactly occupied -… and after I see this screen, I should force some product from my head through it to stain as one does some chemical or food, and having done this, I should make some preparation to harden it, and use it for the head of a ritual axe, in some society and its celebration of a past -… I am growing away from myself -…I am planning forward in a code of one thing representing another -… I am feeling an inward drifting sensation, and a waxiness on the surface of my skin -… and, I sensitivity to light- and, a rose color on my knees and elbows, and a muscle development of my jaw -… and, a combination of sweat and skin oil that acts as a cleanser, such as working in the mechanism in a self-cleaning oven -… I am a rolling picture of beauty, as conventionally conceived, taped to a toilet paper roll and spun rapidly so it shoots out like a New Year celebration -… I am that began but that which coasts for a time, but that which needs to restart for the hillside it must climb -… I am the roam of I idea over a flat scape, and the barb on its underside which catches on a cloth as on a traveler, and follows to some far space by skipping over the flats, which fold when flown above, and unfold on the landing, so much more in space has passed than thought -… I am some fuzziness in both eyes, though one is more pronouncedly fuzzy than the other, and, even to look at from without, it shows, like a fur or winter coating -… I am a line of purposes that stick up straight like quills -… and, it is that, that shoves in deep to skin, and is hard to withdraw, and harder to withstand the pain of -… I am the paddling and the wind in sails, and then, the engine -, and, I am a progress of energies in advancing tapered shape inside the human interior -… I am a magnetic and radioactive stitching, an ephemeral, ghost coat on a cobweb thin wire -… I am a believing in a cold producing heat -… I am a believer in a vacuum made using rubber lips and adhesive suction -… I am a short tooth in the front of a mouth, sitting beside one that pushes outward like a prong -… I am the lamppost at the end of the street, and the telephone pole at the beginning -… I am the seasoning in the sauce, the salt the add, the water you dilute with -… I am the flock of ducks that ride a wind stream above the lake -… I am the self statement of obvious ways, of translation and of economic and direct methods of performing -… I am the action of the elbow and the knee, and the distance between the eyes, made into an equation or simple ratio _... I am the charming activity, or the story describing the past in a way that it was not -… I am the chewing of a food and passing of it chewed from one mouth to another -… I am what is frozen and chemically solidified from sitting unattended overnight, and from adjustment by invisible mechanics -… I am the stolen and reclaimed -… I am a tool ready for use, used alternatively -… I am walking in dark without any light -… I am as if washed with soap and then, repeatedly washed without rinsing -… I am a presentation of walls on wheels, which I arrange all day long behind a locked door -… I am the drainage system and the irrigation system, and the shower -… I am the question that splays in many directions, and the continuous branching of each that covers the future -… I am the purpose of description for rituals leading to ecstatic states -… I am the one or two who trades with singers and cabinet makers for towels made from many different materials -… I am in the form of a hat -… I am can't see, can't fathom, can see, can absorb -… I am stillness, in a crumpled paper taken from a fist, -… I am the still but tidal river, moving but not to short term perception -… I will take you to the place, I am the means for you -… I am the processing and the form, the figure in the ink and the fixture on the wall -… I am the narrow stream of choice on the plain of necessity and modified behavior -… I am the function of the icon -… I am of a collection, unsure -… I am the second rising of a spiritual master who has promised to return from death -… I am diverse tasks, half imposed upon me from outside, and half self imposed -… I am a difficult clutching of tools while wearing a kind of metal mitten -… I am wire threading around 40 degrees on the rim of a small hole in a balsa wood block freshly cut from a tree in a park -… I am, as if nothing happened before, but everything compressed into a moment -… I am the cloak that comforts and hides, that streamlines and misdirects and reveals intensions -… I dreamed I am a protective wash -… I am, that spinning smoke from a burning paper that is sucked up into a pipe -… I am a systematic offering, giving over in a set up, patterns generated from implied rules after a random choice has been made, in first attempts at performing a new function -… I am a new applied skill, what makes the tool before the task -… I am that which presses down on everything I see as if to press down on a wound -… I am not as if perfect -… I am, as if I was -… I am humble at the edge of my own will, and steer toward a point away from myself -… I am directed toward the middle half of the wave, and the middle of the octave -… I am something not water contained in the action, of rain -… I am the powered will and story -… I am the focused multi-facetted object which goes by gravity down a hill, but on a way of its choice -… I am in my wife's powerful imagination -… I am the last commitment of time to the spirit of creative art and the writing -… I am the glowing in the air which is an unexpected sun on a cloudy day -… I am as I was some time past -… I am the construction of a blockage against other things -… I am the sending and the receiving tone of a technology I don't comprehend -… I am known for reason and effect -… I am the awkward energy of the place of no place -, and, the irritation only I can feel beneath my skin -… I am that does not recognize a thing -… I am that which feels, of what is loved when we are fading -… I am that corrected choice of many parts -… I am the preparation of leaves for drying -… I am, as the wooden sticks with cups and sacks at their ends for catching wind, a thousand in rows on a drunk walk -… I am, the air as a statement of transparent layers, with intangible content -… I am the soul of cracked vases -… I am the fluid which advances under the door -… I am shocked length and various depth -… I am wide but not deep, or deep but not wide -… I am the reason of the story that influences, am that of the opening , am that of the personal responsibility, am that of the desire of the heart, and am that of the insect that is nesting in the hay -… I am that,, a corrosive curl of smoke as comes from some gland behind a worm fang, as it emits while burning, as the surface of the lake in glowing hot, and this draws out the crawling things, which dumb like moths will move toward against their own good, their fate -… I am as the king of wisdom, with a sandwich-board sign, who yells at carnivals, and sings philosophy -… I am such that lives for eggs, to eat all eggs, who wants most to become an egg, by eating up all eggs -… I am, one losing myself in a woman I married but am in our memories, in another country, thinking, where am I now -… I am as a man with a bag of acorns and a fan made out of sticks and fish skin -… I am the nervous condition related to fear of falling -…I am nine times more liely to fall with these conditions -… I am the ink of the words, it is a thin but material necessity, even a communication has a substance -… I am the walking stack of dogmatic slogans and belief based definitions of words and means related to "feet" and a special, double edged jargon -… I am the replacement that never knows the predecessor -… I am the ground fruit that is left to fertilize its kin -… I am the soul of the things that push their way through pavement -… I am the fill of the ballast holding canoes the size of continents buoyantly upright and easy to direct -… I am the invention of the cliché -… and the creative mystery of the appropriation -… I am the first milk of twilight -… I am the second in line to receive a ration -… I am the stabilizer that is a lever for weight and a thickener for water, and a hole punch for the thin from paper to sheet metal -… I am the trusting thing -… I am the author who materializes the actors on the stage -… I am a confutation of fear and anger, of relocation and skin graft, of disturbed or agitated bird, and then like a sack of sand -… I am the wandering through wet cement and dry ceiling plaster -… I am the fixed sink, and the holder of a set of pebbles sorted by size and texture, bagged and vaulted for a later drive -… Forks are keeping down the worm, Across the acre where I walked When I was undescended, tip to tip and thick like sewer pipe, Tongs, so heavy they can stand for eons By their weight, and Hold a thousand worms Blackberry bushes grow And once, my father's church where once I rang the bell so heavy too, So now, it rings but once, A minister, his congregation shrinking Preaches on the differences between, My father's church is gone, But blackberry bushes grow, still, we ate them, now -… I am knowing that -… I am, suspensions of the controller, and the diagonal attrition of a part held clear, free of oppressive fear -… standing firm, unhad -… I am the lawn outside of a mountain retreat in deep night, with one light near a shrub, with one toad -… I am a squirrel in a field and a rabbit in the ground, and the man who escapes to do errands -… I am a giant horse fly, in the oversized room. I am as the purist form of controlling, which has no limbs with which to act, so must appeal in some seductive way to reason -… I am the thinking nob that turns attention away from the problem and invents a private way -… I am the cautious quieter, who whispers so that others will whisper too -… I am the gas bubble forming inside a narrow pipe, which causes blending of species through a magical transformation of purpose -… I am toast blackened to charcoal -… I am the conductor of a current which goes through m skin and passes through six layers of tree bark and into a chrome can -… I am the ascending particles that rise to heaven when the balloons pop -… I am the tragic sensation that the average mentality has when confronted with an object image of itself -… I am the glass surface that covers a rough composite of stone wood and decomposing fish -… …and forms a working surface for draftsmen -… I am as the consideration of one mind for an organization of joiners, and the rejection of their proposed plan -…I am the wall a sarcasm using a statement to represent the opposite strikes and falls from -… I am the opening of the window that looks out over voluptuous acts in tableau -… I am as the consideration of three competitive humans, plotting to shame an animal by teaching it words associated with punishment and then, saying those words endlessly -… I am the subtle gesture that still covers broad space -… I am the juicer joined with a rice popper, making exploding drinks -… I am the Dawn at dusk, awaiting the moonlit sun during the meteor shower -… I am the round peg shaved into paper thin portions, fried like dried fish in oil, jumping and turning, and I am the square opening that receives the dough made from mud and ground purple wheat and bull semen -… I am the multiple arrival of the cloaked figures wearing steal nets and carrying hatchets in side holsters -… And I am the arriving and the departure at once of the mechanical moose, designed to lure the flesh and blood of Old New England _... I am the churning of the butter 'till it breaks into a brown ball which float in the churner like an upturned boat, with sea baked and shiny hull, and sounds of screams from inside -… I am the demand of the pressure sensitive simple folk, who know their ways, but succumb to the frosty glare of the self loving self loathing one of superior social standing -… I am the burning in the night, the heat that makes a black coal white -… I am as the cloud of animal fat in the desert, rolls in and rains down oil and fire spatter -… I am the mounds of animal turds of spring -… I am the path pulled, the pulled path like toffee, I am the sense pushed against, I am the creased face as it rests on a pillow, I am the pillow of the rich, the stone of the needy -… I am a preparation that brings health to small areas on its application, but which causes atrophy when more broadly applied -… I am a depository of mechanical equipment, levers and gears that may be unearthed from the ground where buried in metal canisters, they are the pillow allowing the fearful one to sleep at night -… I am the unprepared, and the one who lives on faith that there is no need to plot survival beyond an imagined devastation -… I am the repeated proclamations, which must be said again, and overstated -… I am as I was in childhood trusting, and before I knew the fear of falling -... I am the returning before the learning -... i am representative of the basic principle of Lower Consciousness -... I am the drawn away down a gravity drain -... i am the placid punctuation, the filling of the sensitive bladder that blocks retreat -... I am the happiness which slips up under the eyelids and moves the brain spirit onto a conveyer - to reward -... I am the multitude conditions required to turn a key and release a new pollen -... I am a jar of juice that is boiled down from lifestyles across a wide range of land and water dwellers -... I am the head on the stump that is still talking -... I am aping something, which is a bad imitation of what I would do, so it is a circle -... I am a part of the previous circle, but I am a part which has a thin wall, and might become an indentation and destroy the symmetry of the circle , and I become through a flowing through the wall core, the thicker part, which becomes more like a callous as the circle tries to role but rather it wobbles, but this leaves a great and variable impression as if several shoes on two feet, and this is coded and read at a meeting concerning the survival of the experimental spirit in future of art -... I am as the knuckle that is holding me under a board on top of which is the pile of stones and to that is the added pressure of the hand -... I am the illness of the paranoid skill that shifts my state of operation in a constant blur of insecurity -... I am several leads that are tied to different self powered mechanisms, that pull me in many directions at the same time, applying different force as by intelligence and different motivations, as if players in a game who have different purposes than the game -... I am the spitting onto a flat plane, which is hot and sends a steam that rises, then falls in a solidified ball and rolls in a pattern with others of these evaporations and constitutions -... I am a subject, tied by fate to an object, then i am followed by another sentence -... I am a requirement by moral code to feed a being I imagine is living underneath the floor - I must dig or pull up wood from the floor to make a space which can hold a small package of what I imagine to be a good food for the entity as I imagine it at the time I imagine it -... I am as when I am done, dividing into thin streams of liquid that are like colored puke, with awkward smell that is a little bit like sex, and makes others uncomfortable or needing to leave the area -... I am as if I was born as a board and was slowly turned back into tree, and then seed, and then back to previous tree, and then dirt, and what was formed before life -... i am the halved seed, split along the half line and, producing half a life -... I am, refrigeration of my ancestors, in me -... I am, a block of stone and a wooden fence, and a post of fiber, and a hollow gourd -...I am as the log made of latex and poster paint, and a section of sidewalk cut and pasted onto a cotton linen nightdress, held up on the waitress by two cables covered by a satin fabric so to seem like simple straps on the dress, but, strong enough to hold the sidewalk on the dress, and, the waitress too is strong, and has 2 shoulders like the cables on a bridge, and this is how she seems to show no fatigue when she is walking in her rooms, and wearing this dress, in her evenings spent alone, and waiting, as she is the waitress -... I am twelve stomachs as I have described many times, as the word pictures comes again and again in dreams and on the tip of my mind when I write with no words prepared, but draw the words out first without a word utterance inwardly -... I am, where have I gone in being, asided so much I am present on a diagonal from the proclamation of my being in which I introduce myself -...? I am thus the proclamation of a core of will, not inside a shell of pride, but hastened by a slicker skin, of scales that face begin, and coated with a protean jell, and on its top, an oil coming from begin the head and lubricating and streamlining the backward growing whole -...I am a savior of the many things which I have turned my back on in my life, that now I must appease -... I am a thing which must engage the world outside, and hold it tight with dry fingers, the wet things that could slip between -... i am the pocks of the armor into which you can I am as the safety commission says, of pure spirit, in their terms, I have a clean record -... I am as this plastic wrapped over breathing holes - and you should bury me -... I am a thrust of pushed in pins to hold a drawing to a wall, and then a thrust of pushed in pins to hold a canvas and a rag flag to a wall -... I am, am I, answered the question as I taped a piece of color to a glass window, so, the color is to hover in the air, and I am to see the scene beyond -... I am frosted surfaces -... I am the swelling of the lips, the lengthening of the canine teeth, and the extension of the hair at the nape of the neck that turns me from man to man plus -... I am the bubbling of the tongue until it is a balloon and chokes not only my mouth but the mouths of all I encounter -... I am the development of a gland that steers me toward magnetic fields, and then, another gland that steers me toward paintings of the Dutch masters, and then, a gland that draws lines in front of my eyes, and transforms shapes directly into an array of philosophical positions all of which threaten the stability of a place with common purpose, and introduce from its fringe, and widen it to flattening so it may surface coat many different cultural aspects, the unwanted and different and individuals who/ which have been placed outside so to preserve the form of the dominant thought that holds the frame of one group up against the tree on which it has been tacked or roped -... I am the constant in the changing under and over -... I am a slow to heat stove that heats a house slowly slowly slowly -... I am the one singled out from a box of the stacked and the lined that is rejected, but after modification and physical adjustment, accepted as the same -... I am as I imagined I might be, several years ago -… I am several roads meeting, two of them being under pressure (carbonated) -… I am a mutiny and civil war between organs -… I am a wonder of light through a window and absorbent dark blue shelf liner paper -… I am a list of material and fabricated objects -… I am as the subjugation of the nine enemies by the greater favor -… I am as I was born, from the out and in of the mouth of beasts -… I am starring at something out of reach -… I am the façade of the church held up by scaffolding behind -… I am the punch in the face of ambush -… I am the recognition -… I am the warm paste -… I am the useful arches of the building, and the pads of paint and pigment -… I am the question of God's will, put to a simple mind -… I am the deterioration by secret means of the simple solution -… I am the reduced sample plan to learning and the follow-up of forgetting -… I am the mask in the shady blue fogged rowing boat -… I am the attempt to impress as impression -… I hold vows and am promising -… I am the positive and unexpected blast escaping a hold with a side valve for vacuum -… I am going -… I am the paste -… |
__ 1973: Welcome to the Chaos Age ![]() 1973 is an open-source public research program. ![]() I'd really appreciate any contributions to 1973 Send theory/poetics/history/vignettes/decisive moments to anastomooATyahooDOTcomDOT au __ New Social Movements Postmodern culture Neoliberal governance Late (multi-national) capitalist economy THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT Births [edit]January Sean Paul January 1 Danny Lloyd, American actor Bryan Thao Worra, Lao writer January 4 – Greg de Vries, Canadian ice hockey player January 6 – Scott Ferguson, Canadian ice hockey player January 7 – Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer January 9 – Sean Paul, Jamaican singer January 10 – Ryan Drummond, American actor January 12 Hande Yener, Turkish Singer Joseph M. Smith, American actor, writer and producer January 13 Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian hockey player Gloria Yip, Hong Kong actress January 14 – Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian race car driver January 15 Tomáš Galásek, Czech football player Maksim Martynov, Russian engineer January 16 Josie Davis, American actress Scott Greenall, Musician, Recording Engineer / Producer and performance artist. January 17 – Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican football player January 18 – Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas, Kula Shaker) January 19 Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist Karen Lancaume, French actress (d. 2005) Ann-Kristin Aarønes, Norwegian footballer The affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) connected cash found on the burglars to a slush fund used by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, a fundraising group for the Nixon campaign.[1][2] In July 1973, as evidence mounted against the president's staff, including testimony provided by former staff members in an investigation conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee, it was revealed that President Nixon had a tape-recording system in his offices and he had recorded many conversations.[3][4] Recordings from these tapes implicated the president, revealing he had attempted to cover up the break-in.[2][5] After a protracted series of bitter court battles, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the president had to hand over the tapes to government investigators; he ultimately complied. Facing near-certain impeachment in the House of Representatives and a strong possibility of a conviction in the Senate, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974.[6][7] His successor, Gerald Ford, then issued a pardon to Nixon. Postmodern Philosophy and the Problem of Language ... negative consequences of a Postmodern approach to language. For a telling example, look at the results of applying deconstruction to law revealed by the 1973 Roe v. Wade ... www.allaboutworldview.org/postmodern-philosophy-and-the-problem-of... - Cached Musings & Commentary Primers & Papers Literature Reviews Double Takes Professional Experience Socially Negotiated Truth If the interaction described above takes place within Burke’s parlor, it is a low threshold, metaphorically speaking, to stride from the private to the public sphere, using Habermas’ theory of communicative action: We cannot explain the validity claim of norms without recourse to rationally motivated agreement or at least to the conviction that consensus on a recommended norm could be brought about with reasons … The appropriate model is rather the communication community of those affected, who as participants in a practical discourse test the validity claims of norms and, to the extent that they accept them with reasons, arrive at the conviction that in the given circumstances the proposed norms are “right.”[1] Libraries to search | Advanced Search Print Share Search results for '"The age of"' > '2011' limited to Libraries Worldwide Chat with a librarian Format All Formats (13,007) Article (8923) Peer-reviewed (6645) Downloadable article (204) Chapter (20) Book (2571) eBook (810) Thesis/dissertation (373) Large print (16) Braille Book (6) Microform (3) Archival material (850) Downloadable archival material (825) Encyclopedia article (252) Video (173) DVD (154) eVideo (12) Bluray (8) Show more ... 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The age of airpower by Martin Van Creveld Book Language: English Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, ©2011. Libraries that own this item: Cornell University Library Editions and formats » 3. The violence of peace : America's wars in the age of Obama by Stephen L Carter Book Language: English Publisher: New York : Beast Books, ©2011. Libraries that own this item: Cornell University Library Editions and formats » 4. Violence as worship : religious wars in the age of globalization by Hans G Kippenberg Book Language: English Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011. Libraries that own this item: Cornell University Library Editions and formats » 5. The sacred image in the age of art : Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio by Marcia B Hall Book Language: English Publisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2011. Libraries that own this item: Cornell University Library Editions and formats » 6. The Battle of Adwa : African victory in the age of empire by Raymond Anthony Jonas Book : Biography Language: English Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. Libraries that own this item: Cornell University Library Editions and formats » 7. Wikileaks and the age of transparency by Micah L Sifry Book Language: English Publisher: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, ©2011. Libraries that own this item: Cornell University Library Editions and formats » 8. The Codrus Painter : iconography and reception of Athenian vases in the age of Pericles by Amalia Avramidou Book : State or province government publication Language: English Publisher: Madison, Wis : The University of Wisconsin Press, ©2011. Libraries that own this item: Cornell University Library Editions and formats » 9. The advent of pluralism : diversity and conflict in the age of Sophocles by Lauren J Apfel Book Language: English Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. Libraries that own this item: Cornell University Library Editions and formats » 10. The Age of Responsibility : CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business by Wayne Visser Book Language: English Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2011. Libraries that own this item: Cornell University Library Editions and formats » Human rights ethics Pluralistic, narcissistic, adversarial and meritocractic (opportunistic) society . 1973 – today The Basel Accord established the current floating exchange of currency rates we are operating under today. 1974 NY Commodities Exchange (COMEX) opens. Paper gold trading begins. 1975 Once again Legal for U.S. Citizens to own gold. 1976 – 1980 IMF sells 1555 tonnes of gold in bid to depress gold price. 1978 U.S. Treasury Gold Auctions gold in bid to depress gold price. 1985 Gold Bullion Coin Act mandates Gold Eagle Coin production. 1999 – 2014 Washington Agreement, Central Bank Gold Agreement, and CBGAII implemented in bid to depress gold price. W.H. Auden 1907-1973 'In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise' Wystan Hugh Auden is buried in Kirchstetten, Austria. (See map...ref no. 8)4:50 pm, Wednesday, 12 september Spring Austalian Eastern Standard Time. Honky Tonk Heroes is a country music album by Waylon Jennings, released in 1973 on RCA Victor. With the exception of "We Had It All", all of the songs on the album were written or co-written by Billy Joe Shaver. The album is considered an important piece in the development of the outlaw sub-genre in country music as it helped revive the honky tonk music of Nashville by injecting a rock and roll attitude. More ruminations on periodisation First question: Is the free in free verse the same as the free in free market economics - fungible? isomorphic? spurious? No recourse to Isaiah Berlin in your answers please David Harvey is the clearest thinker currently working in the Marxist tradition. His accounts of empire, neo-liberalism, postmodernity, the spatial fix, capital and architecture, baltimore and bilbao are hard to go past. Deconstruction is fine but Habermas was spot on in his critique of its easy assimilation to capitalist neo-liberalism and the end of socialism/capitalism binarisation. Of course if all of this is taking place within the single horizon of time-culture, the end of history that Fukuyama described, then we can only assume that it has an eternality that may persist even if we leap beyond the terminus of our own regimes. Left alone as a theoretical model, rational choice theory would probably have done little harm, but the replacement of Keynesianism with neo-liberalism as the economic instrument of choice for politicians and élite public servants in the English speaking world since the mid-1970s has unleashed the rational choice model into the world of policy and social engineering. -------------- __ __ It does, and in doing, gives Tasmania a chance to profit even more from the sale of the Hydro, a measure which only those with eyes fixed firmly on the past can continue to deny. __ __ __ __ The period of the novel extends from the 1870s to the aftermath of the First World War and it can be read in part as long extended discussion of the major societal shifts taking place in France in which the hegemony of the aristocracy was under threat from an increasingly confident and assertive middle class. __ __ The argument held that the individual voter would make substantive gains as a result of selling the Hydro because he or she would be the recipient of better funded State Government services. __ __ When providence could not even distantly be used to analyse economic affairs, what alternative arguments might establish the beneficence of the free market system? In this context, Keynes' lack of faith in the beneficence of the economic system looks like a gesture of disenchantment. __ __ " From the perspective of self-determination and autonomy, the question is whether this elaboration is based on immanent designs or whether it steadfastly continues to quote from the traditional entrepôts. __ __ The tragedy of modernity is that unless one has taken these forms of mental life as a vocation, the dominance of science and economics will produce a meaningless world evacuated of "Truth" and filled only with an endless supply of "true knowledge" that is by definition temporary and fallible. __ __ __ __ wide Sargasso Sea, homi bhaba, trin t minh ha, tony hawk, Mount Rushmore, Yuri Gagarin, For hours they stare at the desert sands, percepting the sensible rhythm of the desert sands. __ __ The family firm is still intact. __ __ In speaking of modernities are we merely saying that Indian modernity is different from German modernity, which is then different from, say, Mexican or Venezuelan modernity? If this is the case, what modalities of power are occluded here, not only in relation to authoritative grids of empire and globalisation, but also within non-Western formations of state and nation? Equally, by invoking a bloated and singular modernity centred on the West in order to interrogate the homogenising impulses of projects of power, do we perhaps succumb to reified representations of an imaginary but tangible Europe that overlook the labor of difference within the work of domination? (Saurabh Dube, 2002) As if trying to comprehend the cold dam's unfathomable mystery, Sonja stretched her arms out to embrace the bottom of that vast curved concrete wall […] At that moment Sonja felt herself a child once more. __ __ Critics of inequaity who consider themselves more realistic than the recognition school, argue for a different approach to the utopis of differential human valuing. __ Tasmania is always internally modernising. __ __ For his part, Jenkins points us in the direction of a set of ostensibly anti-modern practices, faiths, creeds and imaginations that still exert a sway over the habitual orientations of modern individuals. __ __ The global trend toward neo-liberal privatization arrived in Tasmania with a bang in the lead up to the 1998 state election when the sitting Liberal government proposed a sale of the Hydro-Electric Commission that it had previously broken up into generating, distribution and retail arms. __ __ Despite Chakrabarty's claim that historicism does not imply teleology, however, it remains the case that the radicalising potential of Indian entanglements with modernity operates within a horizon marked at one end by a European political form: liberal, capitalist democracy. __ __ It is not something to be traded for a temporary political advantage, as the people of Tasmania may well find to their cost. __ __ The extrapolation of a set of deracinated logics of modernity from their origins in Enlightenment Europe and out onto the territories of the colonial world seems at first glance to complement the endeavours of the community of scholars who have sought in recent times to bring the pressing claims of alternative modernities to our attention. __ __ The Hegelian model of the state can be read as an attempt to enact a partial re-enchantment of the world in the context of the dialectic of transcendence and immanence that has always attended the troping of enchantment. __ __ Now they realised phlegmatically that for some time to come they were blown off course. __ __ We are catching up, this joy pronounces, the horizon of the present is attainable yet. __ __ Tasmania finds itself in the odd situation of trying to find a toehold to exert its own modernising plans in the face of a cultural storm blowing ceaselessly from elsewhere. __ __ The protestant ethic embodied in Calvinist responses to the doctrine of pre-destination is the pre-eminent example of the latter form. __ __ Against this methodological backdrop, the writing of history with all its concomitant sensitivity to the concrete and the empirical presents as a liberating alternative. __ __ Historicist readings of non-European locations that find a stumbling block in these "indigenous" characteristics are railroaded into constructing their places of arrest as inadequate, lacking and immature. __ __ It means the advancement of Tasmania, and the making of her [into] what she has never been, never would have been, but for this great power scheme. __ __ I feel that deeply, this turning of the sod which will bring the waters of the Shannon to do their great work in the Power House. __ __ In this regard, I believe, the answer is relatively obvious. __ __ This campaign stood as a cleverly manipulated mobilisation of the past to safeguard the future and it is hardly ironic that proponents of the Hydro's sale should have criticized their opponents for taking an anachronistic stance. __ __ Jenkins refutes Weber's description of a world-historical trajectory through which the natural world and all areas of human experience become experienced and understood as less mysterious, defined at least in principle, as knowable, predictable and manipulable by humans; conquered by and incorporated into the interpretive schemas of science and rational government. __ __ In a succinct account of these moves, Milan Zafirovski charts the attempt by economic thinkers of the rational choice school to absorb the category of the social into their own epistemological formulation. __ __ Those in attendance that day could have been in little doubt as to the register of Bacon's appeal to the Tasmanian electorate: "That is why", he stated in conclusion, "we know in our hearts that it is wrong to sell the Hydro. __ __ The metaleptic error here is summed up in his prophetic conviction that, with hindsight on their side, the Tasmanian community would finally realise the error of its ways and return the state to the historicist path marked out for it in his book. __ __ The offer being made to the Tasmanian electorate was essentially utilitarian. __ __ A. __ __ __ __ Sport is supposed to sublimate battle but the opportunity cost of renovations and new stadia right across the 'great' city of London is easily enumerated. __ __ __ __ Second, I see academic writing in the broader context of the neo-liberal market that we are all required to engage with. __ __ In the Tasmanian case, the external lobbying for the sale of the Hydro came from Federal Government quarters, the national "quality" press and the local media. __ __ In the disenchanted world of modernity God is no longer immanent, but morality is no longer objectively grounded. __ __ Possessed of a notion of the social as the sum totality of what R. __ __ But the Enlightenment had effected the rapid decay of the prestige of religious justifications, however remote, of human affairs. __ __ " This historical unfolding, however, is not without its contrapuntal double, a reinsertion of the superstitious, the messianic and the mystical into the daily life-worlds of modern subjects and the institutions through which they operate as social actors: Yet processes of modernity also create their own enchantments. __ __ __ __ ? C H A P T E R 11 An Enchanted State: Rationalisation and the Spirit of Tasmania Take the example of that plural, modernities. __ __ Fighting to win a different kind of power in 1998, the Bacon opposition showed a shrewd insight into the feelings of their prospective constituency when they outlined their plan to keep the Hydro in public hands. __ __ For one thing, the concept of the invisible hand so central to classical economics of a Smithian kind, has been taken as the extension into the commercial realm of a beneficent world order guaranteed by the presence of a Christian god: Smith and probably other theists like Condillac and Turgot ultimately sustained their belief in the ideal workings of the system on the supposition that the world had been designed by the 'designer' in a beneficent fashion. __ __ Under 'material rationality' on the other hand, he [Weber] meant the rationalisation of the conduct of the individual in respect to ultimate value positions, which could under certain conditions lead to far-reaching changes of society. __ __ " The historicist dimension of the plan to divest the state of its electricity generating assets transforms the "not yet" uttered to Indian proto-nationalists by their colonial masters into a "get a move on" driven by agents of exactly the kind of local imperial centres that Chakrabarty describes in Provincializing Europe. __ __ Society becomes the sum totality of individual economic actors mobilising to maximise utility. __ __ Furthermore, a boundary line is pegged out to separate the hostile regimes of history and modernity, a boundary line that is designed to conceal the memory that modernity and modernisation were once the subjects of history, and that modernity is perhaps indistinguishable from what we call the history of modernity. __ . __ __ Jane Bennett's The Enchantment of Modern Life, continues this counter-offensive through a mobilisation of the shock troops of embodiment philosophy and science studies. __ __ The positing of the wise élite who could marshal the forces of the economy for the public good, however, opens out into a contiguous field of enchantment marked primarily by the Hegelian notion of World Spirit actualizing itself in the state. __ __ The insight here is nothing short of profound. __ __ It is almost as if Townsley's history of Tasmania was already written in advance, and the intrusion of reality arrived as an unwelcome cause to redraft its conclusion. __ __ The play of difference that Chakrabarty extracts from his archive is activated and contained by the "not yet" uttered by the imperial someone to the colonial nobody. __ __ The historians who have been allocated the task of writing these histories find themselves trying to catch up with an ever-receding horizon. __ __ It dissociates modernity from its modern European origins and stylizes it into a spatio-temporally neutral model for processes of social development in general. __ __ . __ __ To this historicist "not yet", Chakrabarty juxtaposes the Third World call of "now". __ __ __ I think we'll find ourselves in a fruitful place somewhere between scholarship proper and cultural or social criticism of a broader, more accessible sort. __ __ More recent readings of the economic fundamentals of the proposal are unanimous in their indictment of a monetary commitment that would have come close to bankrupting the state. __ __ __ __ People often say that they are writing for themselves, in a private language perhaps, but I have seen enough clinical madness. __ __ This is indicated by attempts at making economics an 'imperial science', or a 'universal grammar of social science', in the form of economic approach to all human behaviour engaging in the 'colonisation' of social science. __ __ Keynes' radical re-politicisation of economics after the Great Depression constituted a re-enchantment of the state simply because it challenged the pre-eminence of the value sphere of economics as capable of determining the ends of the social more generally. __ __ As William Connolly has argued: When previous understandings of God's hand in the world wilted, early modern thinkers tried to enliven them by transplanting God into reason, or nature, or Spirit or the subject […] Hegel rationalises faith but his Spirit must be known to be believed by moderns and there is no way to demonstrate its truth. __ __ Zafirovski frames his catalogue of the insurgency of rational choice economics with the contention that modern sociology developed specifically out of frustration with the anti-institutional and anti-social perspectives implicit in utilitarianism. __ __ Knight's subdued prose masks a declaration of L'état ce'est moi. __ __ In Australia, Michael Pusey describes this shift in the title of his book, Economic Rationalism in Canberra: A Nation-Building State Changes its Mind. __ __ But Townsley seems oddly oblivious to the ramifications. __ __ Turning their back on the project of building a nation, a process that J. __ __ In recent times, the doctrine of economic rationalism has been identified by critics on the left of politics as an attempt by champions of the economic value sphere to take over the value sphere of the political. __ __ In the first network, hope moves out along a temporal plane where Europe becomes the modern ideal for other locations to build towards, while in the second, empirical reality itself is prodded and poked by frustrated agents of modernisation fervently set on reconciling the actual with the ideal. __ __ Knight eulogises the abrupt termination of his plan for the future with a cautionary note: A problem with hydro-electric schemes, unsupported by thermal or other kinds of power, is the storage of sufficient water to see the system through dry periods. __ __ Both the content and the form of this will-to-modernity are Euro-centric. __ __ This is a weak inclusion that fails to take account of the various ways in which Tasmania is constructed as backward, non-modern, anti-modern and "magical", even as it contains no constitutive outside to the processes of modernity normally formed by the presence of a residual indigenous tradition. __ __ Theorists of multiple modernities thus find themselves fighting a fire on two fronts as the dual threat of Euro-centrism and homogeneity encroaches on the conceptual space they seek to open up. __ __ If we apply this theoretical insight to the model of theistic enchantment, God's underpinning of a totalising moral framework, cosmogony and guide to pragmatic action must necessarily emanate from a position outside the world. __ __ The story of the disenchantment and re-enchantment of economics, however, is not an even one. __ __ The investment of collective pride in the achievements of the Hydro goes back to the very first project completed under its auspices. __ __ From a state development perspective, an intense interest is maintained in the statistical profile of the local community in the context of changes affecting the rest of Australia. __ __ There is a peculiar way in which all these other histories tend to become variations on a master narrative that could be called "the history of Europe. __ __ And the defining moment in this history? Nothing other than a variation on the theme of what Chakrabarty refers to as the "greviously incomplete" scenario of a Eurocentric modernist transition narrative. __ __ And even if political modernity of a European kind could be achieved in these regions, it would only encourage the retrospective identification of an ersatz Europeanness made visible by a methodological approach that gathers itself around the only subject of history that is theoretically knowable. __ __ The setting for the speech in which Bacon declaimed his party's position couldn't have been better chosen. __ __ " The potential irony here is that studies of this kind might actually just reiterate in a different dialect the provincialising of Europe supposedly achieved by the modernisation theory described by Habermas. __ __ Zafirovski's essay traces the history of an academic turf war, but the place of rational choice theory in the consolidation of free-market thinking in the national bureaucracies of Canada, the USA, the UK, New Zealand and Australia amongst other places, testifies to the more generalised significance of his argument: The recent expansion of the rational choice model to sociology and other social sciences has often been an expression of the imperialistic ambitions of economists. __ __ Just as non-Western locations like India provide an outside that is also interior to an expanded narrative of modernity, Tasmania's engagement with modernity took, and continues to take, empirical twists and turns that demand a recasting of the conceptual make-up of modernity. __ __ Enchantments that extend from the immaculately imagined origins and ends of modernity, to the dense magic of money and markets, to novel mythologies of nation and empire, to hierarchical oppositions between myth and history, ritual and rationality, East and West, and tradition and modernity. __ __ The Rundle government translated these doxa into a program for action when it proposed an elimination of state debt within eighteen months of the election through the sale of the Aurora (retail) and Transend (distribution) businesses and the ninety nine-year lease of the HEC's generating assets. __ __ Llobera nominates as one of the re-enchantments of modernity, the neophytes of economic rationalism elided entirely the distinctions between economy and society. __ __ In a shrewd calculation he alluded to the intimate connection between the HEC and the emergence of a multicultural Tasmania after World War II, juxtaposing this cosmopolitan celebration with the gentle xenophobic warning that privatisation would see control ceded to a financial institution in "Paris, Tokyo, or Dallas". __ __ The theoretical basis for Chakrabarty's insistence on this point is his Marxian interpretation of historicist transition narratives. __ __ As Coronil states in the case of Venezuela: Typically the Venezuelan state astonishes through the marvels of power rather than convinces through the power of reason, as reason itself is made part of the awe-inspiring spectacle of its rule. __ __ Such sites of enchantment today include, for example, the discovery of sophisticated modes of communication among nonhumans, the strange agency of physical systems at far-from-equilibrium states, and the animation of objects by video technologies?an animation whose effects are not fully captured by the idea of "commodity fetishism". __ __ It saw a more competitive economy as promoting productivity, and posited that free trade combined with deregulation would force the Canadian economy to make structural adjustments that would enhance productivity and lead to higher growth. __ __ As she notes: I […] think there is enough evidence of everyday enchantment to warrant the telling of an alter-tale. __ __ Operating firmly within the horizon that holds that the market is the best available mechanism for resource allocation, the Rundle government made clear in its Directions Statement that the symbolic and mythological value Tasmanians have attached to the Hydro had to be sacrificed in the name of economic common-sense: Energy policy has been a critical part of the development of Tasmania. __ __ __ __ Which is a bit like the shot as basic unit in Christian Metz' semiotics and its distance from the sign which is supposed to be empty in it essence and only semantic when places in a syntactic line. __ __ The subject in his narrative is pushed outwards from the personal vignette that begins the piece to focalise an organisational chronicle that discretely discloses the triumphalism that authors of the competing environmentalist history traditionally associate with the Commission. __ __ As a collectivity it enacts, in different ways and at different cultural locations, the Foucauldian axiom that "to be modern is not to accept oneself as one is in the flux of the passing moments; but to take oneself as the object of a complex and difficult elaboration. __ __ The proposition that societal modernity, once activated, moves inexorably toward establishing a certain type of mental outlook and a certain type of institutional order irrespective of the culture and politics of a given place is simply not true. __ __ The internal connection that is thus severed must, it seems to follow, be replaced by an external one linking modernity with all the minor places where its language is spoken through patois and creole, vernacular and slang. __ __ When jobs growth exceeds the national average the champagne corks start popping. __ __ It tells us that in order to understand the nature of anything in this world we must see it as a historically developing entity, that is first as an individual and unique whole- as some kind of unity at least in potentia - and second as something that develops over time. __ __ Where Rundle assumed that individuals would prefer quantifiable increases in education and health spending, Bacon realized that the Hydro was more than just a potential source of income. __ __ Offering a more integrated vision of economic commonsense and state ideology, the Bacon opposition swept to power in a landslide. __ __ Political modernity is finally an impossible dream that only appears to find its realisation in a reified Europe that is, on closer examination, just a "figure of imagination". __ __ Townsley's Tasmania: Microcosm of the Federation or Vassal State, 1945-1983, former hydro-electricity commissioner Allan Knight presents a potted history of the organisation he headed up from 1946 to 1977. __ __ Is Western modernity a singular entity that can be written about in a variety of ways, or is it in fact constituted in the telling of these modern meta-stories? When modernity is understood as something that "has travelled from the West to the rest of the world not only in terms of cultural forms, social practices and institutional arrangements, but also as a form of discourse that interrogates the present", a tacit assumption is made that some other ensemble of culture, society and self-understanding is waiting to receive the influence. __ __ The external connections that link a modernity that has become alienated from its European origins, and indeed from its European history, with the loci of its regional adaptation sets the scene for the identification of fragments of the modern in an inexhaustible well of empirical data and closes off the possibility of prioritising or privileging the Europeanness of modernity. __ __ In other words, Rundle's position endorsed the model of the subject advanced by rational choice theory. __ __ the sun is loud it cuts my skin. __ Jargonator that summer rain is going now. __ Could the latent critical force of psycho-analysis not be recuperated and summoned once again to do battle with the diabolical foe of economic rationality? It is the purpose of what follows to test this hypothesis. __ The lesson of the primal scene merely problematises its 'reality', thereby opening it up to more insightful and psychologically revealing readings as well as making possible a more general critique of the positivistic and scientific status of economics as a discipline. __ i do not wish to leave the sea. __ a mirror or a semibreve rest. __ he sees it all. __ But the metaphor of the hammer should not be misunderstood. __ i was canyon deep. __ Finches and Friends when you left to go i didn't know Mr and Mrs white floors, melbourne furniture, of the offhand variety, together, once a month or so when we can find the time. __ you have it too and give it up. __ i ventured out without my son. __ i've been wary, over-steering hard in shows of strength. __ he knows it best. __ my muscles slack beneath the foam. __ the justice effects or the claim of the party. __ out by the lake, out in the boat, little brother did the deed. __ The textual strategy that Freud employs to deliver this vital information to his readers though does not immediately square with the significance that he places on the matter at hand. __ the whole time you were there. __ get some more. __ can you just wave your hand? the state comes back. __ - Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols The note of interrogation which serves as the precondition for this essay resonates out from around a single question: What might we stand to gain from bringing the hermeneutic apparatus of psycho-analysis to the logic of economics? The passage reproduced above gives us a starting point from which to begin this foray, a clue, that is in essence, Nietzschean. __ i sketched in tallow parlour light the charts for a drowned world or a lost continent. __ cartesia. __ your purse is bulging till it breaks and coins cascade, a games machine, in rain drop patters on the roof. __ sooty caverns, trenches, beds. __ what childish urge demands the sea? what islands are not capped with flags or prison camps? what chance a greater civilisation? this longing is a form New Nation the tasmanian project won't ever be finished, i suppose. __ Yet, neoclassical economic logic continues to exercise an almost mesmerising control over public policy makers, many public and university intellectuals as well as significant proportions of the 'political classes' of major O. __ you're confused but do not need to, plant a hedge, i bet you knew, your family knew, i arrived and bent back on my hinge. __ the winner will lose and the loser will win. __ Despite these very great differences, I believe that a certain analogical similarity can be detected in the structure of these two things. __ to me, to know myself is good enough or better. __ Freud's model of the psyche is a generalised topography of the human self, and some critics have suggested that it may well only apply to the early twentieth century Viennese bourgeoisie . __ Freud's generalised topography of the human subject has long since ceased to be held up as a 'true' description of the way the psyche functions, and, in my opinion, its application to literary theory, to cultural criticism in general, shows that it has instead become a kind of interpretive meta-narrative, a code-breaking device and hermeneutical technology. __ Hi-Fidelity Water Marks and now i am ensnared. __ 138 the toes press in. __ leave me here with no concern in nylon suburbs bouncing deep in crumbling valleys lunar modules, rapid transit systems, collecting samples. __ It is this hermeneutical apparatus that I believe has the power to open up new ways of thinking about almost any kind of conceptual system. __ i'm saturnine and ringed by moods i wish that fizzing, frisson, heat of buzzing light, that brighter star of distant dark would travel back to shine on better days than these. __ i'm washed by currents, looking out for light relief in thinning cloud, the water's lifting mood. __ we do not bear. __ the roband whip of lifetime blinds and rum. __ i keep my distance, perhaps i circle. __ so much too loose and now all here, now at the wedding, the wheel in just one hand, the soggy bag, the rays, the waves black round store of bleary heat. __ i will surface and go ashore. __ This Hayekian blueprint for world apprehension which has served, variously, as the grounds for the neo-classical and econometric hijacking of political economy and the source of philosophical legitimacy for the previously mentioned political movements acts at the present moment in coalition with even more powerful juggernauts hell bent on implementing the latest and most devastating stages of globalisation. __ i lunge for when it comes, it comes as rain. __ oberamagau_plangewell those folks who painted the little house red, with the chinese wall. __ i borrowed that, "you said again", i will not take or take again. __ i dive nonetheless. __ the race was fast like a planet of birds. __ When considered as an object of critique or interpretation, the psyche of the Wolf-Man and by extension, that of the Freudian subject more generally constitutes an entire system which, not unlike the Saussurian langue, is held together by a set of internal regulative principles. __ for heaven knows i was actually doing quite well. __ thrown a drift we place, the beach the royal swam p. __ i pinch the wind. __ The rest had been added by the inquisitive child's subsequent wish, based on his experience with the dogs, to witness his parents too in their love making. __ Bad with girls. __ when we move from room to room in our lovely wooden house, i hear the full mirage. __ For once to pose questions here with a hammer and perhaps to receive for answer that famous hollow sound which speaks of inflated bowels-what a delight for one who has ears behind his ears-for an old psychologist like me, in presence of whom precisely that which would like to stay silent has to become audible. __ i made this method once and made my name, i was betrayed. __ truthfulness. __ To this end, I wish to suggest that there are two principal ways in which the framing question of this essay might be considered, that there are, to put it more figuratively, two grounds on which the siren call of metaphor might be invoked. __ Despite the insistence of many of his Anglo-American critics, Nietzsche's was not a destructive, nor even a nihilistic philosophy. __ sing then osculate. __ The first derives from what can be read as the shared content of the two events, that is, the centrality of the castration complex to the two primal scenes. __ The next section of this essay will fill out this contention by illustrating the two principle dimensions along which a risky analogy like this might be made. __ (private language, justice waits)of deus ex, or sense alone we know the world and sense the world is local still, we know our street for good. __ the bellowing slapped out guff. __ i didn't say i'd studied that image of the two of you together. __ you looked a chief, i see it there the mark of fist upon your soul. __ Certainly it is still reserved a privileged place amongst the discursive systems which attempt to make sense of subjectivity, but it has also been deterritorialised, to use Deleuze's phrase, and applied to all manner of things that Freud would not originally have anticipated. __ i screech. __ the bold and firm, the moody birds. __ the streams of cash. __ By bringing into conversation two epistemologies which might normally be expected to speak in very different tongues, I hope to shed a new light on economic logic and its discursive manifestations which if all goes well, will bring into question economics' positivistic basis, its pretensions to scientific status and with these, its grounds for legitimation. __ tied his tongue to the spinning wheel and gave it all he had. __ How, we might ask initially, could two such patently heterogenous events or collection of events like the Great Depression and the primal scene be linked together, and what might we stand to gain from making such a conjunction? The second part of this question I have already addressed above, but the first requires immediate consideration. __ he yowls like cat, a barricade squawk. __ Following in an unintended way from Nietszche's invocation to philosophise with a hammer, Freud's conceptualisation of the unconscious set in train an intellectual concatenation whose reverberations can still be heard today, even by those of us who, unlike the philologist from Basel, do not possess ears behind our ears. __ allowed to rest and drift. __ It harmonises with our assumptions that it was a hot summers day, if we suppose that his parents had retired, half undressed, for an afternoon siesta. __ found no treasure. __ It gradually became possible to find satisfactory answers to all the questions that arose in connection with this scene; for in the course of the treatment the first dream returned in innumerable variations and new editions, in connection with which the analysis produced the information that was required. __ the blues were much too blue. __ the ferns sagoon. __ the volumed news of pregnant friends. __ i trap parole. __ i went alone to seek the moon. __ we cannot think, nor move, like thumb reliefs on cardboard card. __ the moss was damp. __ i wish i could untract this strain. __ berate and warrant distant roof of the world. __ you're just the kind of folks we need down here to raise the bar and bring the future in like a baited cray pot, fresh from heaving, southern seas. __ 96 appearance as reality. __ If the prevailing wisdom were true, though, such neglect made sense: why study a phenomenon that no longer existed? (Wolfson 1993, 3) If it is not already apparent, the crux of this essay is the contention that the most momentous economic catastrophe of all time, the Great Depression of 1929-39, acts within neo-classical economic logic or rationality or consciousness as a kind of primal scene. __ so rich and proud. __ and caritas is not enough, to bind us from the cold of dread. __ Neoclassical economic logic, on the other hand, is an epistemological system designed to measure, monitor, and most significantly, manipulate the ways that goods and services are exchanged within and between communities. __ danish king of relatiz, the broken drink. __ i felt deep down that i had trampled on something hallowed, even if my intentions were innocent (selfishness but don't trust me for stephen green is not man i've ever seen. __ free again, i cupped my ear to empty shells of autochthonous beach. __ is tall and still and strong; commands the heights from distant post. __ some are overdone by garish combinations or monochrome endlessness. __ but let's face it, you picked me up. __ Nearly an entire generation of economists was trained without ever studying the origins and causes of financial crises. __ 97 we shared the same sharp flat, at an interval to be sure, but looking down to the south and the east, that apartment gave bulk to our town and i didn't think of you as i fell towards illness. __ In The History of an Infantile Neurosis, Freud outlines the case history of the Russian nobleman Sergei Pankieff, centring his discussion around the discovery and interpretation of the analysand's observation of the primal scene as an infant. __ so round and profane. __ to be composed in fugue or form, the never knowing where you'll wake. __ i break and hold firm. __ lose their strengths. __ On first gloss, this appears an odd conjunction. __ and shrug it off. __ the rippled ute. __ you smote the crap from bullseye's cave and round the heads to lap the drain. __ easy price, strong adjustments, at the source. __ he knows it firm and cannot say, but it is what and always is. __ i am man when he has gone from knotted in search of depth pearly, unfarmed, mad, thriving, synchronised. __ It has in the past, and will in the future, continue to be separated out from the set of 'things' which enables the psycho-analytic interpretation to be conducted. __ 89 when you returned, i told you what i'd done; the cake, the cds, the books. __ i have spoken without my armour to nobody in years. __ with words you had a distant match, so much more i didn't catch. __ or else it moves like a dangling, falling, hopeless calm. __ burnt, i felt all of this operating at an international level and sleeping at night. __ inter alia the new born son. __ i will not snap the jersey cap. __ love is a relationship independent of the terms. __ 15 maxims. __ the channels run it in. __ the teatro. __ to make your name or have it read. __ Lastly he interrupted his parent's intercourse in a manner which will be discussed later. __ you found my balance, yielding memories from a mess of curling slips. __ the limits of talent. __ The argument that the primal scene and the Great Depression are analogous events by virtue of a shared content develops quite specifically out of the first of these texts. __ you proceed at distance, a bowery bird. __ i wed your knee-cap, parenthetical introvert. __ i feel the middle months approach. __ without illness there is no fantasy cure. __ time-worn swooping credit swaps. __ the speed you lack. __ These scenes of observing parental intercourse, of being seduced in childhood, and of being threatened with castration are unquestionably an inherited endowment, a phylogenetic heritage, but they may just as easily be acquired by personal experience. __ peeling overboard, forensic. __ always there and never there. __ galleon sun. __ the crimson burl or eventide. __ inside i thought of dubai heat, the cylinder high toward the earth. __ the devil's wince. __ pinning greenbacks to her dress. __ trained and cocked, a fulgent bim. __ In the case of the Wolf-Man this is a fear of real castration, in the case of the Neo-classical economists who have theorised the Great Depression it is the fear of a figural one. __ E. __ miles back from sun. __ 116 of course i speak of what i do as much as what i do it in, i'm couched, one might say, in a specialist tongue. __ What, to bring us back to the focus of this paper, might happen if we were to look at economic logic or even the history of economics through psycho-analytic eyes? Could we not sound out some idols? Drawing the Vital Analogy: The Primal Scene and the Great Depression What sprang into activity that night out of the chaos of the dreamer's unconscious memory-traces was the picture of copulation between his parents, copulation in circumstances which were not entirely usual and were especially favourable for observation. __ (Freud 199) During the period immediately following World War Two, when financial crises seemed to have disappeared forever from the economic scene, mention of them also disappeared from the economics literature. __ it caught my eye at the corner and didn't let go. __ hard to say or take it in. __ i worked as a painter a singer and a policy wonk. __ When he woke up he witnessed a coitus a tergo, three times repeated; he was able to see his mother's genitals as well as his father's organ; and he understood this process as well as its significance. __ a lifetime i've been left alone. __ truncated code violation. __ 85 isn't it all because of that savings glut you're always talking about?" the sandals were luminescent pink or orange, hot, written by my city. __ e___ lives there now. __ Mykonos Flake Salt and Vinegar there comes a time when you just are, when everything that has been and gone conditions the future and proves it. __ the chain of being is so straight up. __ i was pinned and submitted pale, wind thin, flat like a krypton jail, upbeat and wistful, leaning into the future, holding the place, throwing stems in the breeze, an orientation or an arrow, like superman in youth parting from golden fields. __ . __ the clear blue gong. __ the poling gout. __ and this is not a bone to pick or even more a starting point. __ Likewise, no one is, a la David Irving, about to dispute the empirical reality of the events which have since come to be included under the heading of the Great Depression. __ we walked slowly down crooked streets. __ make plans, with owls. __ pareto equaliser domino concubine. __ In other words, the original object of Freudian interpretation, the unconscious, has come to occupy not a necessary but a contingent position at the center of the psychoanalytic enterprise. __ Freud's meta-psychological topography of the human subject was drawn inductively from his treatment of particular cases, his grounding in traditional psychology and medicine, his theories of the significance of myth and culture among many other things. __ but they hold us. __ The first of these is the case study of the Wolf-Man, 'From the History of an infantile neurosis'. __ you don't, not directly. __ i worked as a dancer. __ On this reading, the discovery of the unconscious, the principal enabling achievement of psycho-analysis should be thought first and foremost as the sounding out of a false idol; the self-same one that fills the hollow center of Slavoj Zizek's latest work, The Ticklish Subject. __ the scrambling man is not a thought or even more a joint or bore. __ i wish this coughing, choking fun would run its course and leave me high and dry. __ i smoke a poof and fling him ash. __ i hit rock bottom. __ In fact it is, ostensibly at least, quite obfuscatory. __ Which brings us, in a round about kind of way to economics, or more precisely, to neoclassical economics and the logical and discursive system in which it has found expression. __ " but you never go and if you did the whole time you were there it would just be tasmania, tasmania, tasmania. __ it could not be summarised and could not be lived well in any way other than by thinking more about other people's lives who lived nearby or appeared in stories. __ i burn all semblance first to eastman junk bonds, polar ridges, steroid poses, married vice as if love was a condition of thought, expressible in a proposition, and not a function of history or an order of conduct; bickering, correcting, riddled laughter. __ The second ground for the comparison centers on the truth-status or conditions of facticity of the two sets of events. __ __ . __ what kind of task? pouring poison in a king's ear. __ In combination with compromised and acquiescent governmental institutions at every legislative level, these megaliths continue to entangle greater and greater regions of our planet in the sticky web of capitalist economism. __ now or soon or after gravox lunch. __ We say if only i could ever go, to that strange star, the underworld, if only i could make my peace with insect rain and confidence. __ such are the juridical poetics of undecidability restaged in the psychoanalytic frame. __ the bearing plant. __ the burnished spade was standing clean maybe one day we will all be together on time, in the same time. __ i imagine they would pity me. __ attentive labour at the screen and doubt, in any case, that scientists can predict any of this in a precise or value-free way. __ they would think of my success as failure, eccentricity, wasted years. __ surely you know that medieval smell, the single-fronted, empty, brasseries specialising in crepes, red tablecloths, vines on the mullion. __ but they are wild at heart. __ Nifty Christmas Fuselage the players will meet again, in other words, on new turf somewhere else, next year. __ a man of love and all of it. __ they are objects to be sorted not rules to be obeyed. __ everybody has them in dampened tones, paler hues. __ forever young, you want to say get the chickens in or else my host, the king, the silent mr moon. __ Primal Scene 1: The Wolf-Man's Dream Those readers familiar with Freud's work will be well aware that the concept of the primal scene is developed for the main part in only two key texts. __ i burl and wince. __ we ate that night on lily leaves. __ Rather than beginning with a statement of what he regards as the real conditions of the Wolf-Man's apprehension of the primal scene, Freud leads us on a kind of a wild goose chase, maintaining first a version of events that he then comes to rescind and replace later on. __ where would i lose myself? in what dimension could i come unstuck enough to see myself go?a variation on what's done here. __ shots as long as the dawn. __ i try to keep them occupied. __ The Butler's Escape i made this craft by rectifying errors of design, the water's stored in old, red tanks, terracotta, florid ground. __ , my wife and my children and my memories of you. __ price levels moved within a narrow band. __ The Noble Lie Inside The Tomb banging. __ 117 slowly but surely, i was losing touch; the days wore through and sapped my zap. __ back in 20th century city. __ 119 it's all a joke but even so, there's nothing free about these claims. __ i raid his chest and beat him down with kraut (cymbals). __ reality as the shimmering ark of truth. __ and very thin inside my head i have no doubt that human beings have abreacted childhood tears. __ the burning door (a good poem, sweaty gator, still not ripe for central sound. __ The Guts of a Beggar it doesn't do for learning much, this mechanics of the dark. __ never being able to say what you thought or what seemed wise as thoughts, made words on the screen. __ capped and pillioned, pillory tor. __ i speak to you as outboard kin who traded in the whole of us for angling from the land mass shelf at human truth, a fool's crusade for essence, power, sex and blood the bottom doesn't shoulder much, it can't its spirit broke, it cannot shield or take a punch, i know but am not of it, yet i could face up to riddled hope, and shoulder loss. __ but, pausing over a cigarette or else talking to people who tell people what to do. __ I bound myself in craft. __ the language of dendrites and axons and receptors is friendly and bright. __ you put the hard word on a stubborn little gubbin. __ subculture. __ through the briny, squabbling hermitage. __ he sees not form nor temporal change in and of the time as now. __ your hand is an empty cup or a syllogism. __ The second is the more abstract theoretical adumbrations of the Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis wherein the notion of the primal scene is further explicated and then positioned within the meta-psychology more generally. __ the passage of the sun was independent; variable. __ The apparently innocent and sensible inquiries into the causes and effects of the economic catastrophe of that period become, in this context, harrowing quests into the repressed regions of the discipline's unconscious-quests which, in the final analysis have only one single ever-so-vital goal: to ensure that the repressed never, ever returns, that the free market remains triumphant and that laissez fare economism retains its position astride the bull of capitalist logic. __ bulging purse. __ 'it will not rain today', you say. __ novels clasped in hot mix hands, words carved truth in cattle yards, the dusty verse of centaur's lung. __ still not ripe for full colours. __ my swash was sure i would see it finally as something complete with title credits and special effects. __ , these skins we wear. __ the discontinued email series. __ Likewise, Freud's clinical reassessment of the enlightenment subject was never envisioned as an act of negative critique. __ it all comes true, the rivulet is fast and wide. __ org. __ he eats with sweets or else of ham, the scrambling man is in the walls. __ i built my sub with mirrored walls and no way out. __ if annihilation does occur it will be a modulated personalisation of mutually assured destruction_complete and absolute. __ in trim and daughter. __ crisp clean margins jumbo towels penguins drying at their side. __ he knows it best. __ contingent honeymoon when all the lithuanians chip in. __ you will split in two and these traces of awkwardness will disappear. __ crowned unholy, overseen by boards and public space. __ the strangling wheel. __ i'll teach again. __ first i sorted through your music, bach to arvo part and then i went upstairs and read my manuscript. __ today, one boy will float above and ask for proof that he is now. __ On this first account, the Wolf-Man's primal scene occurred around the age of one and a half: He had been sleeping in his cot, then, in his parents bedroom, and woke up, perhaps because of his rising fever (he had malaria) in the afternoon, possibly at five o clock, the hour which was later marked out by depression. __ i have my own tricks too, but i also have my illness. __ i lip the bottom lips the rung. __ In exorcising this phantasm, in creating a space for an understanding of the way that irrational processes cut right to the heart of human subjectivity, Freud carved out a toehold for radical critique in an otherwise sheer and intransigent epistemological fortress. __ it isn't bad, i suppose, but beside any point that i can see now. __ i feel as though by now i know around me that which makes me think shrink it to a hand held ball. __ so is the scrambling man. __ I am speaking of course of the cartesian self, the self-identical cogito, the idol of rationality and reason as the master of its own house. __ tyres caught on fire traps. __ i will write this restoration in the language of the land; scholar_postcolonial_eurydice embargo till prejudice. __ my training is complete, he said. __ (118) As Freud finally makes clear towards the end of the case study, these questions about the veracity of the observation, whether it was a condensed amalgam of extraneous experiences on the Wolf-Man's part or whether he actually did witness the primal scene, do not really matter: I should myself be glad to know whether the primal scene in my present patients case was a phantasy or a real experience; but, taking into other similar cases into account, I must admit that the answer is not in fact a matter of very great importance. __ then clear, as they say, to start again. __ i had been alone with. __ i wake and feel the fell of light, my eyes, red mountain eyes. __ That is, by suggesting that Freud's insights into the human psyche might be applied to a system of reified pseudo-scientific concepts which although constructed by humans has long survived with an acquired vitality of its own, I will be drawing an analogy between economic logic/discourse and the human qua Freudian subject. __ i crush and outside. __ there is no guarantee that i would lose myself in some other task. __ the darkest prince, he glows in white and does it right, always asking is my skiff askew or are my pants on low enough t make me tough. __ D countries. __ that something good might happen . __ sandy reichhart potted succulents for the stoop an spoke with god via the analogue, the yearbook was asynchronous or the ebay circuit. __ looping slush. __ Psychoanalysis and Economics: The Significance of the Primal Scene Jesse Shipway, University of Melbourne Another form of recovery, in certain cases even more suited to me, is to sound out idols. __ culmination, direct debit, anticruise, dolorum sandria. __ you feel but cannot bring it back. __ the friends i have or if i turn, potato green, the zipping stew. __ i break like swaps. __ the semi-conductor. __ i do not intend to share my secrets now. __ there is, however, no supervening force powerful or wise. __ the kelp is succulent, my propeller is stuck. __ birds the colour of blood p. __ drink soft or with a friend, you show it too, the rum and tablet, bending down you cop a look at his poor shoes. __ canned by history. __ they run to you and what to do? can you escape the coil of time? you can and spend it every day as if a day was still a day and something new. __ it's just not going to happen out of nothing or suddenly anymore. __ i break and toast i wilt. __ i pause of winded sand. __ giving us projects and plans and counting us all, reaching, reaching for us all. __ i woke up and stood by the highway thinking of los angeles. __ he tries a song. __ the bending man. __ i was remote from myself and becoming imperceptible. __ the scrimbling, scrambling, quiet, man is easy to ignore. __ C. __ six towers stood above the pines. __ flint, sound and hollow. __ i whispered my petitions in place of an abstract: "my plans are flat like a plane not a plain and even more surprisingly, i have no audio out. __ The Wolf-Man had not in fact witnessed his parents in the act of sexual congress more ferarum, but instead had displaced onto them this particular bodily configuration after observing the mating of dogs around the estate where he had grown up: It was really on a summer's afternoon while the child was suffering from malaria, the parents were both present, dressed in white, when the child woke up from his sleep, but the scene was innocent. __ it has to be the flow or the sequence or the way a thought responds to a change in the shape of the trees or a sound uncontrolled. __ 100 psychology, i will not credit. __ a point on the bass strait compass if not quite a good australian. __ angular, damp and burnt, like a falling fence or a galvanised tank or a cratered city bright with sweat. __ "what is that oblong, this snake?" you ask again, the vented pipe. __ but skin is skewed, aslant, its angle gives us seasons. __ truncated codfish. __ progress but never know quite why. __ 142 imagine others have this mood. __ Given the successful supplanting of laissez fare orthodoxy by Keynsian economics after the disaster of 1929 is it not reasonable to suggest that the proponents of free market economics, having finally struggled back to a position of hegemonic control under the sails of Hayek, Von Mises, Milton Friedman and his Chicago school colleagues might find the contemplation of the Great Depression a chastening or even an unheimlich experience. __ 144 the turning sun. __ the sticky heat was thick, my skin a rim of prickled sweat stephen green is very rich he lives beside an ocean pool he chops up loans and sells them off as charms to float a crumbling town the scrambling man. __ When coupled with the explosive growth in reach and influence of the world's financial power elite, the spread of the technocratic Weltanschauung held in common by these various parties seems to bring us closer and closer to the brink of the abyss beyond which lies the dire state of affairs described by Horkheimer and Adorno in the opening paragraph of The Dialectic of Enlightenment: the fully enlightened earth which radiates disaster triumphant. __ (98) About twenty pages further into the case study Freud replaces this version of events with a second, more palatable one. __ i breathe south leaves torn free. __ we still do what we do without recourse to formal reason. __ i turned around to see my wife, the faintest line, her hair in curls. __ the slowing roil of human waste. __ armadillo shoes. __ According to Freud, it is the Wolf-Man's experience of this event or set of events which makes sense of the infamous dream of the six wolves in the tree which in turn holds the key to an understanding of his childhood fear of animals and by extension his general neurosis. __ i look like bogart and smoke a fag. __ you follow the hill, attempt, by folds of sheet and childish lock? legitimation. __ it's tempting to think that passion is private and only for us, that we have some unique take on it, a confidential agreement or a secret handshake. __ But in order that it might hold up, some details need to be declared. __ "but how does the imf respond to an oversupply of credit substrate plane being nests and ideological. __ good at maths. __ you stand and sit and ask for things or tell the others 'couldn't help but see all this as a feature in the making, casting it, funding it; my eye as natural as a camera in artificial light. __ he reads the post-war japanese novel and pens notes on congruences between human rights discourse and structural inequality. __ i hoped but did not think it so and yet i still have much to fear. __ the soaring, jeering, stupid crowd. __ he knows it best. __ (you still have it there on your shelf, unfinished no doubt and i don't blame you for that). __ the bright forest birds hear the fakir's as if listening was work. __ caprice and arbitrary rule are the prerogative of feeling, the way oppressive feeling taxes your last dime and leaves your palette smudged and dry from heavy, caustic air. __ teacup, anticule, the blacks were never black enough. __ young yet still and furrowed depth gores album tracks, so back and forth, behind a horse. __ lose their glow. __ i know what i've done wrong and i don't need a philosopher to tell me that words win prizes for unrelenting the turbine's mighty spin. __ i went to a party, fell asleep on the couch. __ always one rung short on the timpani deck. __ it gives me pause, and cause to jeer the rocky shore. __ his jeans are loose. __ it sprays and you get rugs, scree shares, to change your socks, to change the oil or fix an old machine. __ This structural homology, I believe, makes possible the kind of allegorical argument like the one I am attempting here. __ it was hot. __ embassy piano frowning staring gumnut kissing cigarette holder danzig bow sprit. __ less here than a ghost or a memory come with me on a flat, bright day, to a river, north of perth. __ 113 of course i know it full as well i am not old and sirens quake in shock and awful wreckage at the western half, the danceless rooms, the prancing scold, the empty promise, claims of upwards life. __ reduce it with your thumb and fore, a thumbnail sketch, a touch screen tryst i can see i was wrong about that and selfish too. __ the chef whose name was steven green was paid in cash and cooked with coal. __ at times i've thought i did. __ and moods are not a meta-language or a discipline as such. __ i sing and bounce a ball. __ made by lists at school. __ i asked this king, why he went, beneath the waves, to find himself he said the others said with knives in hand you cannot teach without being taught. __ blurred or fetch again across the mood. __ Where the Wolf-Man witnessing his mothers 'wound' was disturbed by the realisation that his urge to be sexually satisfied at the hands of his father would also necessarily come at the cost of the loss of his own reproductive organs, the free-marketeers who revisit the Great Depression are confronted with the equally terrifying spectre of the failed diagnosis, of the loss of disciplinary control, of eroded credibility, of the withdrawal of predictive and interpretive privilege, in short, of theoretical impotence. __ Hence the return to Freud. __ the having been and always is. __ i bow middled, unkempt. __ mr green is smoke and chimes the kind of bloke who smokes for dimes the kind of bloke you hear about in traveller's tales and broken dreams the kind of squib who pokes about in engine bays for sparks and drums who fills his nuts with local rum the limits of art. __ friable substrate. __ always splayed like a junkie on a burn out cupcake oriole hinterland. __ i did my own thinking. __ fetch again, "you don't say," said the man a brother's sun and all in all a feisty chap. __ my sense of fun. __ this cold, cold rain is human self, the joints and skin of willing being or being as will, i cannot tell. __ a winking pause will volume grief the room is full of sound. __ they are formidable. __ of gog mouthed, bent, scup, pearled, froth split. __ for you the building is literal. __ Which leads us, after a fashion, to a reading of the discovery of the unconscious as a sublime act of creative destruction on the part of the inventor of psychoanalysis, an act perfectly in line with the less commonly grasped dimension of the Nietzschean critical imperative; to sound out idols with the tuning fork of re-valuation. __ in our stateness. __ Economic rationality on the other hand is a produced system of concepts and interpretive mechanisms. __ and the stream of words inside my skull it was a river in my skull a black stone split, a corruscade. __ if ever it was yours at all. __ i keep my memories locked inside. __ i belched at the lake and woke the hounds. __ without the lights, we'd worship god and call him shephard's spark. __ the urban panic. __ carrot bodkin swarming armenian but i am happy enough when left alone. __ Because of its pretensions to scientific status, it poses as anonymous, universal, acultural and mathematically legitimated, even though as many powerful criticisms have shown, this is patently not the case . __ i placate and fight freely, slash freely. __ you stand again. __ . __ i wish some king would drop a line to bring back things so gone from me, you brother thief, my woman love, my laurel wreath. __ What greater false idol presents itself to our 21st century eyes than this monstrous reifying system that, disguised as the technical recipe for guaranteeing a new capitalist prosperity for all, was smuggled into the institutional corridors of the civil society with the invidious political agendas of Thatcherism, Reaganomics and in this country, Economic Rationalism. __ plain sake for the stealth acre, or doubled up, a queasy tangent sign; a 10oz, tape sneakere pumpkin and orioles bobcat pump mentioned, parish widow. __ you go out hunting. __ We know that the actual character of the Wolf-Man's alleged witnessing of the primal scene is shrouded in mystery but could the Great Depression also potentially be an imaginary event? How are its reality-effects constituted by the economic interpretations of it that have appeared in the intervening years? To what extent does its phobic quality, its medusa's stare hinder the attempts of those economists who would seek to determine its true character? How might we reconcile its immense and actual social repercussions with the chimerical quality of the graphs, flow charts, and numerical data which necessarily sit at the center of its neo-classical economic invocations? Could its exclusion be theorised as a crucial moment in the development of an economic imaginary? Both of the these dimensions rely for their coherence on a structural commonality. __ the desert air is cool and clear and the moon is cut like a sword. __ but wouldn't it be nice if we could get the whole team together for one sweet half-time victory shot. __ with this twilight dark, i sat and smoked you sat opposed and did not speak. __ Similarly, the totality of economic discourse, inaccessible though it may be in such a modality, is by virtue of being the accumulation of a vast number of individual acts of enunciation or instances of parole, also a complete system, paradigm or order. __ As is probably already apparent, this essay will rely for its rhetorical effect on an allegorical logic. __ rational kingdom. __ hard to put and hold it firm. __ i burled it, through the grip, the surf is what i get. __ his voice is strong. __ or to the laggard's cove we turn as mist or else as summer rain, we groan, we pout and strain. __ and i have seen the glowing tips of dragon's tails. __ you say, "i will go abroad soon. __ my feeding tube has let me dream. __ i look at this wide almost sea and fill my pots with brawn. __ walking again across the road sans a job placed just here. __ (260) If the question as to whether or not the Wolf-Man really witnessed his parents in the act of coitus more ferarum is besides the point, what matters is that somehow, via the coming together of various different psychical forces, some conscious, some unconscious, some the products of condensation others of displacement, the mental image or cognitive amalgam whose content was the two adults caught in the act of sexual congress did acquire the condition or quality of truthfulness, real felt memory and recalled lived experience. __ you so slick, you twist armacord edgeways and intermit borrowed stapled, slapped out loan fund instrument contract faroe. __ i found my peace in Banquo's arms and never once enclosed a cheque. __ blinking time out the back of your head. __ shimmering riffs. __ blanket rations because, and this i think is the indispensible point, the burrow is wet to the core, soaked and thin, soaked and thin, sucked and drenched. __ the cooler filled with foreign beers. __ A subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, it came as no surprise that The Mercury supported the plan: Mr Howard [the Prime Minister] has made clear that this offer fits in with the spirit of the Nixon Report. __ __ At the heart of this dissatisfaction was the theoretical modeling of human behaviour and motivation. __ __ Fortunately Tasmanians are a hardy breed. __ __ In that thinking, says Dipesh Chakrabarty, we inevitably return to a European intellectual tradition whose genealogy ties together con-sanguine concepts including citizenship, the state, civil society, public sphere, human rights, equality before the law, the individual, distinctions between public and private, the idea of the subject, democracy, popular sovereignty, social justice, scientific rationality and so on. __ __ " Agnes Heller takes a different tack to Giddens and Mommsen in her own commentary on Weber's work in A Theory of Modernity, drawing out the fragments produced by the splitting of the social whole into competing value-spheres and making the suggestion that these spheres become configured in a hierarchy of prominence in line with their capacity to accommodate instrumental rationalisation. __ __ The twin ontologies of the individual and the social proposed by rational choice theory have thus translated into specific transformations in the value-rational ends pursued by state entities. __ __ Beneath the smooth, scientistic surface of economics lies a strata which might be more properly theorised as unconscious or in the Lacanian vocabulary, as 'real'. __ The Specters of Marx: the State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International. __ __ __ But Richard Ford says that we connect too much. __ Ed. __ New York: Norton, 1977. __ __ __ 138, penguin, 1996, harmondsworth, Middlesex, england Discussions about hierarchy can take us to situations in which individuals express an outrage about certain other people or groups who use special powers and/or advantages to secure and maintain a position at or near the top of the hierarchy. __ To this end, I wish to contend that the economic real is a repressed ideational field that breaks through the economic imaginary whenever it is required to accommodate traumatic events like financial crises. __ __ __ How can Proust be used as a resource for philosophy scholarship? For philosophy researchers, there is much that can be gleaned from a study that places at the very centre of the novel descriptions of the home and the experiences which arise from encounters with objects and people. __ J. __ __ __ Yet the meaning we derive from an object can never be complete. __ Armworth, New York: M. __ Conclusion: Tallying up the Bottom Line This dialectical reading of the Great Depression has attempted to problematise the scientific status of economics, or in the Nietzschean sense in which I began this essay, has attempted to sound out the idol of economic scientism. __ New York: W. __ __ __ The thinking human, and there is surely no other kind living outside of structuralist ideology, is so centred inside their own meaning systems that are very simple cybernetic loops connecting inside and outside, slef and other, matter and mind. __ S and the world on October 18th 1929. __ New York: Continuum, 1977. __ __ Colonial modernities proper attain their conceptual clarity through a simple binary that opposes the modernising imperialist with the non-modern indigene. __ Garnaut, Ross and Ross Mcleod (eds). __ __ __ (1991) 'The Berlin key or how to do things with words' in P. __ __ __ I bring to this exercise a profound deafness to dominant or sub-dominant (powerfully institutionalised) discourse, tendencies, terms of art and so on that abide in this or any other established, rationalised, jurisdictional research paradigm. __ . __ __ __ To quote Hegel is thought to be good. __ purge the rottenness out of the system'-nothing like the Great Depression can ever happen again. __ The writers who adopt the term "Final Solution" to describe the atrocities committed against the Tasmanian Aborigines align themselves, inadvertently or not, with the loose affiliation of scholars who argue against the singularity of the Holocaust. __ __ __ Sometimes I feel as if T. __ Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973. __ __ __ It can also have some relationship to the idea of equality before the law and to human rights discourse and enforcement - we are all equally entitled to free speech, to freedom of religion and so on. __ This economic imaginary, constitutes itself through the exclusion of unconscious, repressed and symptomatic matter of which the Great Depression is the most traumatic example. __ Certainly his use of the two fateful words is the only instance of a novelic inscription that speaks to the literary corpus of Aboriginal Tasmania. __ __ __ I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now; What is thy sentence then but speechless death, Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath? (Richard II, 1. __ (294) I am not about to defend the Hoover administration here, but it is impossible to resist a reading of this remark as yet more evidence for the argument that economic interpretations of the Great Depression are massively overdetermined in the psychoanalytic and Althuserian sense. __ __ ____ Wolfgang Mommsen provides a useful précis of the differences between these two forms of reason: By 'formal' rationality is meant the strategy of adapting one's own conduct of life to the pre-determined purposes of the kind that the capitalist system has imposed on modern man. __ Schematised, such a history might include the following occurrences. __ __ __ Ayer has inspired me; in particular 'Language truth and logic' which I still view as a model to aim for; in terms of its precision and lucidity. __ __ __ What too should we make of Wittgensteins argument that world consists of everything that is the case. __ Trans. __ __ __ __ __ __ Those new maladies of the collective soul: relative poverty, unemployment, family breakdown, lifestyle diseases, substance abuse, and the generalised anomie of consumer capitalism remain entrenched. __ __ __ no one else will navigate this scientific way. __ __ __ i hear his voice, that pussy eidolon. __ __ Like a "minor literature", a minor place has both political and subversive potential: "Create the opposite dream: know how to create a becoming-minor. __ __ __ i take him down with iris heat. __ __ __ we grip at changing tides, with mitts, so taut, they clench our wrists. __ __ __ __ 23-6; Kay Daniels and Mary Murnane, letter, The National Times, (29 July 1978), p. __ __ __ . __ __ __ __ __ you're never welcome on the ice. __ __ __ __ __ as we drove back from launceston, hobart extended its arms toward us. __ __ __ they might follow their grandmothers into the service. __ __ __ __ __ remember when we imagined it empty of people, the buildings rotting and rusting away. __ __ __ after the war, america had all the factories. __ __ __ he looks as me. __ __ __ __ __ The supersession of nomenclature foreshadowed a supersession of culture. __ __ __ __ __ no wonder. __ __ __ Hospital 68 the brown the jagged girl in the smoking yard, patients whispered "she jumped off the tent and into the fountain, alabaster queen of sleep. __ __ __ __ __ i return to learn again. __ __ __ I am no happy worker in the profit producing, research unitised, establishment institution that crowns our one tree hill. __ __ , Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction: The Struggle for Modernity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995); Victoria Best and Peter Collier, eds. __ __ __ 57 to the yank i turned and thumbed my ride. __ __ __ Yet, the ways we understand material objects in the home has been subject to scrutiny by some influential scholars. __ __ __ i think she was nervous at the start of this year because she wanted to win again. __ __ __ __ __ wouldn't it be like someone in your family dying in fits and starts, finally fading completely away. __ __ __ 5 who is the booted turd who shuts my gate? many earth it - middle class - in a crawling spat governed by organic chicken. __ __ __ Rovisco (eds), Cosmopolitanism in Practice, Ashgate, Farnham, p. __ __ __ __ __ just where exactly did they fit on the social ladder. __ __ __ . __ __ __ __ __ The misanthropic South West wilderness sprawls across a full third of the state. __ __ __ On the far side of "The Mountain" is the South West wilderness, and to its north, the lunar undulations of the Midlands, made threadbare by eucalyptus die-back, concertina their way back up toward Launceston, the island's second city. __ __ __ In a different language it might even be called universal. __ __ Ultimately, however, I believe it is as an instance of Cultural Studies that this book has its life. __ __ __ These attributes are like the noumenon itself, finally inaccessible to anyone who seeks to find them. __ __ __ __ __ and still it seems we look back in or strut our stuff or hate in silence. __ __ ", p. __ __ __ The cessation of transportation in 1853 reduced the flows of British scrip and, in combination with emigration to the Victorian goldfields, economic hardship acquired the fixity of a popular prejudice. __ __ __ __ __ It describes an archipelago covering some sixty eight thousand square kilometres, a triangular landmass flanked by a flotilla of out-rigger islands . __ __ __ i know you love her too. __ __ __ On the western side, meanwhile, the vast expanse of Southern Ocean inserted between the island's coast and southern Africa, reminds us that the presence of the latter is more an optimistic paean to the remnants of a unified cartographic imagination than any kind of tangible truth. __ __ __ always try to have your way. __ __ __ Lurking behind our own success (desperation) and our self-satisfied little homilies about 'picking the market' is the knowledge that billons of people in the world, and a significant number within our own rich societies go without adequate, affordable philosophy or even without philosophy at all. __ __ __ I wish to contend here that this duality can be imported into a spatial imaginary that codes cities - especially large cities with dense and numerous trade links to other parts of the world - as cosmopolitan, while assigning the status of provinciality, homogeneity or backwardness to the countryside and smaller regional cities and towns. __ __ , Powerful Bodies: Performance in French Cultural Studies (Bern: Peter Lang, 1999); Barry Jordan and Rikki Morgan, eds. __ __ __ it was a policy problem and a failure of imagination. __ __ __ __ In the immediate setting, the motivation for such speculations turns around the question of the utility of sub-national Cultural Studies. __ __ __ Drive seems to be the wrong word for what carries us forward because things that drive almost always drive some other thing - like a woman in a car or a depth and breadth of social inequality so profoundly invisible that it drives anyone with a Christian heart quite mad indeed. __ __ __ __ __ perhaps there was a culture of development. __ __ , Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996); Laura Benedetti, Julia Hairston and Sylvia Ross, eds. __ __ __ Eventually, a stirring of French interest in the region together with growing pressures on prison resources in England prompted British authorities to establish a permanent penal "settlement". __ __ __ And what has happened here, in this off-shore island, off the shore of an off-shore continent? First terra firma itself was conditioned with ice age and deluge. __ __ __ the wood and iron and concrete out along the brooker. __ __ __ __ Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark, eds. __ __ __ To continue the argument, a 'liberal' dose of what Isaiah Berlin called 'positive freedom' seems to be required to generate and sustain the cosmopolitan orientation. __ __ __ __ __ . __ __ __ __ __ " i longed to see what colours you'd settle on, which quotes you'd re-deploy. __ __ , Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies (London: Arnold, 2000). __ __ __ __ __ the cafe where i bought those two coffees. __ __ __ that's how to read it. __ __ __ __ __ this coast is clear for me, with seaweed in my hair and limpets in my beard. __ __ __ __ __ he fears the ribs i've sucked down there. __ __ __ __ Palawa, in turn, is the title that Tasmanian Aboriginals use to describe themselves as a totality. __ __ __ __ 1995. __ __ __ __ Raymond Gaita, "Bringing Home Some Genocide Truths," The Australian, (4 August 2003), p. __ __ __ __ __ i watched documentaries about american factories and felt a strength in all those me, those immigrant faces, crossing bridges, pooling outside the gates, hard hats on, carrying their lunch. __ __ __ __ __ if, when all is said and done, no clear winner is declared and no loser skulks away to lick his wounds, the contest will be carried over, as these contests often are, into an eternal future. __ __ __ you follow the very idea of yourself. __ __ __ The global regime of flexible accumulation with its slogans of competitive advantage, intellectual capital and niche marketing seems suddenly appealing to a newly emboldened Tasmania no longer content to cultivate a culture of mediocrity behind tariff walls. __ __ __ __ __ beauty stares at water truth it shone like saturn, cold and still. __ __ __ __ __ for all to all is coming now with this_sweet wave, curling far out on the wake. __ __ __ the sinkhole blues. __ __ __ hoping yet to be what i am and for somebody to enjoy hearing about it. __ __ __ The machinery of contemporary scientific empiricism reads Tasmania as a docile body: as rock, water, soil and tree. __ __ __ __ 45-7. __ __ __ __ If the format and contents of recent Cultural Studies anthologies are any indicator of the condition of the discipline they secure and fill out, it seems fair to say that the evolution of the vocabulary of concepts that constitutes its intellectual framework has also been the story of the forgetting of the placed location of this kind of academic work. __ __ __ The determination to extend the Faustian experiment of hydro-electrification has been exposed as anachronistic folly although the State Government continues to support large-scale manufacturing. __ __ __ Under the appellation of the Tasmanian archive, this set of conversations and the mercurial langue they ghost, is the object of analysis for this book. __ __ __ the almost is or sort of like. __ __ __ A truly cosmopolitan acceptance of economic diversity is still yet to come and may, after 30 or 40 years of neo-liberalism, have been pushed even further out of reach. __ __ __ __ __ a line, a pier, cast away. __ __ __ __ , Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998); John Waters, ed. __ __ __ __ __ the self-same place where poems skulk. __ __ __ __ lines, its county signs, all contrived to magnify the things we do, to make them more remote or give the potentates their little kingdoms. __ __ __ __ __ the rivers dammed or lakes drowned hard before the bending men. __ __ __ that repulsive guy at the library in melbourne, one of the only truly repulsive people i've met, he looked like a pig and even grunted as he pushed the trolley of books, he knew of sandy bay, said the words like they meant something, strength, success, money. __ __ __ __ __ The universal symbol of modernisation: heavy, labour intensive industry was the obvious choice, and the state, unusually blessed in its possession of large-scale hydro-electric potential, pursued this goal with vigour and determination. __ __ The spelling "Trukanini" is favoured by the Palawa people in Tasmania today. __ __ __ __ __ and so i ask: who is the booted turd who always shuts my gate? it must be me. __ __ __ 49 but maybe they will, my kids that is. __ __ __ __ __ we hated our home and hated ourselves for hating it and for staying here and for not being good enough to change it all. __ __ __ 67 right in, the empty page, through thin venetian flesh, the hammer. __ __ __ __ __ i wondered how you made the decision to marry me. __ __ __ __ __ still in my submarine. __ __ __ it might be scuttled or allowed to lie, collecting barnacles on its side, like ships i have seen on the caspian sea, left in the lurch by the tide of time. __ __ __ they spruced up themselves up, cardboard tight, with those up-turned collars and the steel grey hair. __ __ __ __ __ With the waves of postwar migration lapping even at the shores of this far-flung place, progress, prosperity and modernity beckoned and, in the long boom of post-war capitalism, for a moment even seemed attainable. __ __ __ remember when evie won the prize at school. __ __ __ The difficulties that bear most heavily have something to do with feelings of inadequacy as well as of usefulness and the reckless or hard-wone imagination of a distant and irrelevant audience. __ __ __ she had an idea. __ __ __ __ __ i rise, sea-run, leviathan. __ __ __ __ __ how could it happen any other way? we stayed in school and got our degrees. __ __ __ __ __ it never lies. __ __ __ of thin young men with paper skin, angling from the horn of thrift. __ __ __ ? no means exhausts the interpretive possibilities available therein. __ __ __ __ __ low slung, cinder block (is that what they call it?) indiana paddock? on a full scholarship to an agricultural school. __ __ __ __ __ i saw not her five fathoms full. __ __ __ __ __ 59 we drift, "they'll decide today and we'll have a new government. __ __ __ Driving rain is close to the Freudian conception because the drive is immanent to the driven, or is compartmentalised so the id becomes a motor, the ego a vehicle and the superego a set of traffic rules, petrol prices, climativ conditions (including driving rain and air as pure as the driven snow. __ __ __ The Forestier and Tasman peninsulas reach down around to the east and, in concert with the land that gives them shape, the Derwent River and its tributaries form a series of sheltering bays and isthmuses that hold the capital city of Hobart firm against the shaggy purple-blue bulk of Mount Wellington. __ __ __ __ __ she seemed sad enough. __ __ __ __ __ it wouldn't have been out of place somewhere more central. __ __ __ we get the tourists in. __ __ __ __ __ 56 i raised my fist and rubbed him out. __ __ __ __ 13; Lisa Horler, "Black Survivors of White History: The Tasmanian Aboriginal Extinction Myth and the Documentary Black Man's Houses by Steve Thomas," Metro, 94 (1993), pp. __ __ __ Here, then equality is measured in terms of money but also in terms of prestige and influence, fame, job satisfaction and so on. __ __ __ __ __ Tasmania as a thing-in-itself is only a whisper, a faint outline, filled in and obscured by the contours which we typically recognise as giving presence to a place: empirical fact, subjective perception, natural environment, felt memory and its histories, artistic representation and configuration. __ __ __ 145-165. __ __ __ __ __ a shot of light, and then a haze a shimmer, rippled cold. __ __ __ __ __ i didn't feel sorry. __ __ __ that working class pride, that masculine urge to produce and to labour and to keep on pushing through to the end of the shift. __ __ __ __ __ a bauxite rich industrial load the gorgeous blonde, the gantry clone the withdrawn hook, kiss and progress charts. __ __ __ Here, there is a link to the ideas formulated by Bruno Latour. __ __ __ __ __ history twirls and discourse feints, private chronicles spinning out to catch the shining fish. __ __ __ these thoughts of i as someone else, never me, but close enough, as one who whispers in my ear, 'i am near to you. __ __ __ and history yearns to choke our balls. __ __ 30 September, 2003 . __ __ __ __ __ 64 conferred in enclaves dense with steeped, perverse and cultured men that all was void and could not gel without the hand of god. __ __ __ __ __ Heterogeneity is the order of the day and Tasmania, as a brand name at least, seems to have ample room for developing its peculiar specificities into marketable commodities. __ __ See Robert Millikin, "Genocide Film Stirs University Press Race Row," The National Times (22 July 1978), pp. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ Hobart 54 when i rode past here i was a little stony god but thought myself a little effigy_god. __ __ __ that's why i hacked at my wrists. __ __ __ __ __ you always say it. __ __ __ doesn't she like the confident, noisy ones better. __ __ __ As far as this project is concerned, referencing is an unavoidable chore. __ __ __ Historical events and material forms contribute to the character of a location, but their delineation so often posits reified entities dangerously lacking in vitality. __ __ __ __ Just as for Deleuze and Guattari, a minor literature is written in the deterritorialised language of the coloniser, a minor place like Tasmania is subject to a process of displacement wherein its distance from imperial centres comes to be inscribed as a lack which must then be renegotiated through the terms provided by the colonising culture. __ __ __ the strangeness that we covet. __ __ __ . __ __ __ __ __ the killer's lips are wet and wet. __ __ __ cutting mpeg. __ __ __ we all have time to grow. __ __ __ __ __ 78 i feel you land inside my heart, upon the shore, a poison dart. __ __ __ 52 the analyst, fresh from his trip beneath the sea, twitchy and mpeg compact. __ __ __ __ In this context, the centrality of place to this project generates a number of tensions with Cultural Studies in its hegemonic manifestations. __ __ __ __ __ they twitter there, in snappy notes and call me forward into conversation or explain away my absence as if i was not me nor you, a bundled copse, a batty crack. __ __ __ __ Furthermore, the position of minor places on the fringes of modernity makes them useful sites for the reading of cultural logics that also define putative centres because of the estrangement effect that achieves a reterritorialisation of those dominant sites. __ __ __ __ __ and this electronic machine transmits my thoughts. __ __ __ __ __ 83 __ __ Redistirbution through tax transfers could be ramped up to such a point that income inequality which IN Australia at least has imcreased since the highpint of equality in the early 1970s would disappear and everone would have the same moey power to spend as they saw fit. __ __ __ But as with any social organism, the metastases of dis-ease are heavily localised. __ __ __ But what does the preceding list of historical incidents and characteristics really tell us? Naturally it is not supposed to be comprehensive - innumerable details could be added, outlines filled in, narratives linked together - and yet, it brings together the developmental trajectories cited by "official" historians of Tasmania as being most integral to the written past of this island community. __ __ " p. __ __ __ __ __ or else, they were overdoing it without much grace, ignorant of trends, self-enclosed. __ __ __ __ __ The conversations that give form to this complex are carried out in different dialects and discourses, in a multitude of forums from the local pub to the daily papers - there are three of them - from novels and film, to public policy and popular folklore. __ __ __ __ __ we scour alone for plots and action. __ __ 2. __ __ See Jim Everett, "Aboriginality in Tasmania," 30 September, 2003. __ __ __ __ __ scared of depth and always cold. __ __ d. __ __ As Deleuze and Guattari write, "the first characteristic of a minor literature is that in it language is affected with a high coefficient of deterritorialization. __ __ __ __ __ was it the lack of monuments or the meagre industrial output. __ __ __ when i got sick i thought i was finished. __ __ __ i don't think she's happy either and i know how dear she is to you. __ __ __ The fuzzy warmth of radical limitations. __ __ We contend that identity is only formed in relation to objects; there is no essentialised identity that exists independently of our relations. __ __ __ and brain scans show i worked her well. __ __ __ With knees buckling under the weight of convictism and genocide, the colony struggled to its feet. __ __ __ __ __ the desert you, he himself, the dreams, he felt the joists in organ. __ __ __ __ __ new cracks opened up in the walls of the front bedroom. __ __ __ doubt, if not for knowing that we could fall as well_to welfare suburbs, tatty towers, violet streets where e-waste clogs the verge. __ __ __ __ __ will i buy the aqualung or seal it hot for creuset, polo, blue-ray. __ __ __ Some older men just keep banging on with their silly ideas and take the repudiactions of the younger men as evidence of their own rareified and hardwon wisdom. __ __ __ __ __ the boardwalk too is powered down. __ __ __ . __ __ 16. __ __ __ __ __ 'don't linger long inside the mall,' all this sprawl is a worry though isn't it. __ __ __ __ , South Atlantic Quarterly 95, 1 (1996); Houston A. __ __ __ __ __ too many mistakes to count and stand corrected i mean no undue harm. __ __ __ __ __ it has a hinge and, inside, laplanche and pontalis i wasn't listening, watching the hunched figure back behind the wall, walking back and forth. __ __ __ __ Dirk Moses, "Rendering the Past Less Unpalatable,". __ __ 'The term "Black Armband" history was coined by Geoffrey Blainey in "Goodbye to All That?," The Weekend Australian, (1-2 May 1993), p. __ __ __ __ __ we all spelled so badly, naked voice, raw and clichéd have here today the more of all and even that the giving back, the going forward, the talking over. __ __ __ __ __ always dancing. __ __ __ people leaving. __ __ __ __ __ We all know though how rich we are. __ __ __ However it does usually disappoints me. __ __ __ 55 just and still but one recorded disc, was left to mention three dimensions. __ __ __ In recent years, for instance, CEOs of large companies have managed to negotiate rapidly ballooning salaries that now factors up to 300 times the wages of their 'normal' employees. __ __ __ my nose is bulbous. __ __ __ Logically they should have been united, not only by the common bond of oil that had kept them in clothes for sixty years, but by the bonds of loneliness. __ __ __ cured in salt or caulked with lime. __ __ __ The instructional novel holds a mirror up to society. __ __ __ We are a log way away from a universal safety net that extends byond national borders - something fot eh the EU ti think about right now given the situation. __ __ __ *Monkeys Pay Per View : Adaptive Valuation of Social Images by Rhesus Macaques, Deaner, Khera, latt, Current Boiology, vol15: 543-48 march 29 Superstars are created who possess some attribute that is way beyond that of the normal man or woman. __ __ __ I have a lot of time to read for one. __ __ __ Can any of you really imagine sitting at a table with a pile of books and signing them for the customers. __ __ __ I will talk about people and those people might die. __ __ __ We could say that there is a truth crisis in the world but we feel no solid grounds for making this claim. __ __ __ Or else it has something to do with deference. __ __ __ Place and Experience. __ __ __ Philosophy often still works with government or non-gov organisation such a AHURI in the vein of public policy, but increasingly, its proponents are showing a willingness to take risks and to move into trickier territories such as phenomenology, actor-network theory and psychoanalysis. __ __ __ Mrs Dalloway, p . __ __ __ Turning one's home into a code to be deciphered or a language game to be played is a luxury many people cannot afford. __ __ __ It was becoming possible to imagine a future in which the megarich took shelter in their armed and gated communities, while a billion or so slum dwellers were encircled in their fetid hovels by watchtowers and barbed wire. __ __ __ why here? i have found friends enough to keep me company. __ __ __ That is, for a disgusting France, corrupt, inefficient, racist, anti-Semite, run by the rich for the rich-no one wanted to die for that, until, well, until we understood that the Nazis were worse. __ __ __ As the Marx Brothers might have put it, 'this man may look like a corrupt idiot and act like a corrupt idiot, but don't let that deceive you - he is a corrupt idiot. __ __ __ Think about people whose object relations are so volatile and deformed that they turn obscure mass-produced things into totemic objects. __ __ __ Living here in my home town, I run into people quite a lot, people who I was friendly with at some point. __ __ __ This workaholics. __ __ __ park the car away behind the bollards and gather the ghosts i know as emanation, all in chains, the brittle dawn, it sucks at birds the colour of silt. __ __ __ I think that the tensions around register and method and genre reflect some of the differences that make our working relationship gritty and interesting. __ __ __ the magnificent seven would feel at home and maybe they could settle those ornery turkeys that n__ picked up for such a bargain. __ __ Thank god I don't have to defend that claim. __ __ __ The fourfold is right there in the face of all the world's readers even when it is policed and/or irrigated - at the same time and with the same varying rate of change - by the pony-boys, the big-gun outlaws or scattergun injunctions, split roofing felt, spelt or misspelled despoilation. __ __ __ Hamlet Act 1, scene 5, 159-167 We argue first then, that philosophy investigations of how objects operate and are made operable in the home have been too restrictive, too positivistic and too narrow-sometimes clouded by a fear amongst its practitioners to bring other kinds of knowledge into the conversation, an anxiety that is, that other specialists will resent the move but not an ignorance or a proof of inability to deal with complex abstractions or of sensibility that might enrich the languages in which philosophy is normal couched, and second, that a broader, more relational, philosophy research agenda is required. __ __ __ We know that systems or paradigms are rarely, or maybe even never, complete and convincing and permanent and there is nothing disreputable about picking and choosing from these more or less self-sufficient constellations of ideas and reterritorialising them somewhere else. __ __ __ World Cups, Olympics. __ __ __ In important respects, this has led to a failure by many scholars to consider the subjectivities that take place within the home and in particular how the meanings of ''home' are integral to identity formation. __ __ __ When we grow up, here in Tasmania, we are taught that we are supposed to treat other adults as equals and children as blessed gifts. __ __ __ 5- source Wikipedia Measuring income inequality has long been of interest in applied social and economic research in Australia. __ __ __ We must be free to think of others' needs, free to recognise difference and diversity, free to imagine a common humanity hidden beneath superficial racial or religious differences. __ __ __ . __ __ __ But mirrors are for games - for the image of wholeness, for trying new looks, for turning left into right. __ __ __ Some older men assume they are better than younger men (at life, at knowing, at judgement, at repetition) even if the younger men can do things that the older men can't. __ __ __ From this angle, the harbour side suburb will applaud divagations from the norm when they lead to a lucrative and successful Mardi Gras parade or a soccer league or even a souvlaki shop, but when people fail, it will promptly ensure that they become as invisible as everyone else. __ __ __ Anyway, I know you like Auden - who doesn't, the last heroic English language poet, died the year postmodernism started - so when I found this reference to a poem you've described to me, I wanted to include it here. __ __ __ blogspot. __ __ __ she's your oldest friend. __ __ This was an edited transcript of Blainey's Latham Memorial Lecture, which he delivered in Sydney during the same week. __ __ __ Richard Dienst tells us the the global economy is more unequal than any single national economy. __ __ __ Rose, G. __ __ __ The degree zero of what Philip Mead used to called rabid pluralism is the obliteration of conversation and shared meaning, we are all locked into ourselves then, caught between echo and narcissus, opening and shutting our eyelids while the nursing staff take the humour from our veins- the commission seeks feedback on a workable funding arrangement for catastrophic injuries resulting from water, air and railway modes of transport. __ __ __ Quite simply, philosophy is surely as contested as any other discipline within the social sciences and the humanities. __ __ __ 19. __ __ __ It starts early. __ __ __ So first things first. __ __ __ . __ __ __ and Williams, P. __ __ __ The faces of women flowed through his memory. __ __ __ But in order to do that I have to lay out a range of terms and explain my own motives in attempting this attempt. __ __ . __ __ Of course, I have always felt authentic in regard to writing and thinking and throughout my youth I always thought that I would leave Tasmania like everyone else to seek my fortune on lustrous pavements somewhere else. __ __ __ These are the harbour side suburb's others: samey, familiar, hokey, daggy, comforting, claustrophobic, stifling, narrow-minded and prissy: In the soft, unseasonable warmth the village seemed comfortable and homelike - not dignified, not impressive, certainly not beautiful, but not unattractive. __ __ __ Now this kind of statement is not easy to categorise or indeed, to understand as anything other than an affront to the pale standards of academic truth. __ __ __ 1999. __ __ __ Lucky we have the safety net. __ __ , Gendered Contexts: New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies (New York: Peter Lang, 1996); Jill Forbes and Michael Kelly, eds. __ __ __ , The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Macmillan and Co. __ __ __ 195. __ __ __ If you put these two different kinds of inequality together, we are drawn towards the important academic debtate about recognition and redistribution. __ __ __ Sport seems to run according to different rules. __ __ __ The anthropologist Gell (1994) deploys the term 'technology of enchantment' to explain how an individual engagement with an object generates an object's agency. __ __ __ In other words, object and subjects are mutually inter-defined. __ __ __ Miller, D. __ __ __ What I hope to do here, then, is give our verbal exchanges a different kind of material substrate, transpose them into written words, slow them down and sharpen them up. __ __ , A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997); David Palumbo and Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht, eds. __ __ __ The Poetics of Space, (trans. __ __ __ Were they fact or fiction? Did __ the cloak. __ __ __ There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. __ __ __ Still our gino isn't much better than the U. __ __ __ Publications of the English Goethe Society, 68, 20-28. __ __ __ Then out it comes again, its chemistry changed, it returns to the heavens and new rain is born. __ __ __ For Proust involuntary memory is a felt quality found in the concrete or place. __ __ __ The harbour side suburb that vouchsafes the seductive offer, 'Be what you wanna be, do what you wanna do', also says, 'don't expect us to clean up after you when things get messy. __ __ __ I walk a darker line and one that is, for all that, nothing like the desert where heroes of edgy thinking skulk around all day waiting to inherit the empirical scale of time. __ __ __ chorus down. __ __ __ we capture life finally to make it stay and to gird our recollections of days no different from those we have, as if to make these days more than they are and embargo time with samples and choice. __ __ __ I wish I had some nice sausages for my lunch! You could call this a picaresque novel if you like but it's really much more like a tragedy. __ __ __ In this sense the following figure might be of use: Harbour side suburb Township Good Open Supportive Bad Oblivious Closed But this is a schematisation and also a generalisation. __ __ __ S. __ __ __ 48 (OECD 2006). __ __ __ The personal emplacement of the subject, its immersion in rivers of class meaning, racial projections, its own story, gathered from the outside, assigned to the place that marks the self inside the body or outside of it, makes Australian difference the sufficient cause (another fold) of an impressive arsenal of familiar (and contemptible), racist, anti-intellectual systems of production and exchange, vacancy control and stage-managed centralisation. __ __ __ Catching up with friends and family is tinged with sadness because it opens up the absence of contact and missed occasions. __ __ __ In The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. __ __ __ , Ill Fares the Land, Penguin, New York, 2010. __ __ __ (the technically superior European players were technically superior: To let the present be replaced by the future in election years. __ __ __ Cocoa prices have not kept pace with the cost of living. __ __ __ Latour(1996, p. __ __ __ ' Harbour side suburb is real even though it doesn't exist. __ __ __ i don't mind and didn't you sell a three hundred dollar dress just the other day. __ __ __ Bachelard, G. __ __ __ I think I've made about 150 bucks selling poems. __ __ __ Hobart was a genuine, bustling commercial centre in miniature. __ __ He was disappointed on both counts; in imputing an anonymity to the object of his adamic interpellation and in aiming so high in his conjugal ambitions. __ __ __ As children we are projected in love, this makes us brave and able to give that love back. __ __ __ Winnicott, D. __ __ __ For Thomas, the interest is not so much as to what objects are designed to be but what they have become. __ __ __ In response to this skimmy, selfish approach I have tried to read 'deeply'. __ __ Is such a move symptomatic of a fetishised identity politics that would produce an absolute irreducibility of competing discursive voices were it to be applied to a methodology for Cultural Studies? Or would such a development escape the cul-de-sac of the differend and open up discussion at the micro-cultural level that would surpass the debate around national versions in its detail and sensitivity to difference, thereby engendering new kinds of productive discussions and research synergies? Anthologies that embody the trend toward the nationalisation of place in Cultural Studies include Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes and Jonathan Petropolous, eds. __ __ __ Miller, D. __ __ __ And all of this coexists with the persistent images of home as a place of comfort, safety, and refuge (Mack, 1991:6). __ __ __ It is certainly the case that our understanding of home is shaped by the wider politics and in particular the social and economic inequalities. __ __ __ Not because it adduces Borges, who is himself a fabulist cliché, a certain kind of mystery/absurdist logic generator circulated within graduate seminars that may or may not exist anymore in the North or in populous, affluent centres of the Southern Cone. __ __ __ Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990, p. __ __ __ Dickens, C. __ __ __ Many human beings believe that humans are innately hierarchical animals. __ __ __ But often older men will just claim to have outdone the younger men in their own youth. __ __ __ Human beings are basically pitiful creatures with only the dimmest awareness of the full realities of life and the processes of causation that operate in our technological world. __ __ __ The idea of mediation also provides a clue here. __ __ __ Thus the sort of literature which is content to 'describe things', to provide nothing more that a miserable list of lines and surfaces, despite calling itself realist, is the furthest away from reality, the most impoverishing and depressing, because it unceremoniously cuts all communication between our present self and the past, the essence of which is retained in things, and the future, where things prompt us to enjoy it afresh. __ __ __ The degree to which we are open to the other effects our interpersonal relations in a fundamental way. __ __ __ Systems unpeel to other systems, there are closed of microcosms, closed off neighbourhoods, closed of mentalities. __ __ __ (Sartre in Ian Buruma, "Who Did Not Collaborate?", New York Review of Books, February 24 - March 9, 2011, Volume LVIII, Number 3, p. __ __ __ Jameson is a mysterious figure not least because he is based in the American as opposed to the Global south. __ __ __ Fredric Jameson has written before about the silliness of being in favour or opposition to what wasonce called postmodern culture. __ __ __ I think it's highly likely that the hegemon who gives the gift of recognition will, in the end, have given as much to themselves as they have given to the newcomer or fringe dweller that has been brought into the fold. __ __ __ Which is also to say that cosmopolitanism, with its definitive emphasis on openness, is largely the same kind of phenomenon wherever it is played out. __ __ __ wsj. __ __ __ How are we supposed to choose the register of our own work? - the work of the reader and the writer, bare knuckled opponents, blissful sweethearts, comrades in oblivion. __ __ __ Dear Brigitte, I would just like to say a special thank you for all your work during the past year preparing for the AAIR forum. __ __ __ Whilst the meaning of objects is reliant on humans, their effects on the social world are not dependent on the generation of meaning. __ __ __ For the first time the urban population of the earth will outnumber the rural. __ __ __ Try buying waterfront property on a retail wage. __ __ __ Recognition of this kind can be considered a cosmopolitan act of 'generosity', but I would like to contend here that such a gesture is not necessarily as generous as it first seems. __ __ __ But they all open out to the larger whole - even when this opening out goes unnoticed. __ __ __ But it is important here to remember that jameson's weight issues may well have been linked to anti-psychothic medication and or various forms of toneish meditation a la the magisters of Hesse's Castalia - which for me as for all clever insituionalised young people, was really only ever the story of my life and continues to be a guide. __ . __ __ __ But Jimi's got a lick that's better than both of ours. __ __ __ Mrs Dalloway, p . __ __ __ Pp. __ __ __ Here, the role of the CEO as the symbol of the company, the figure head and functional leader, game changer, negotiator of decision points, gives him the opportunity to make a claim to a decisive value- adding role that is easily measurable through signals such as share prices. __ __ __ This harbour side suburb is a fantastical beast, a chimera or a gryphon, part Blade Runner, part Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, part Dickension London, part Manhattan Transfer, part The Sheltering Sky, part American Psycho. __ __ __ The rules of engagement of both the diachronic and the depth analysis are not privileged here because of the profound de-valuing of fact-based narrativisation that drives my thinking. __ __ __ Show them the forms of monsterousness and the forms of beauty that are hidden in their lives, that have been pushed aside or promoted too vociferously. __ __ __ "habit is a stronger veld", captain markus, said the alexandrine copse. __ __ __ Surely Peter Carey doesn't think he's operating on that level? And the same can be said for every other writer, timely or untimely, brutish or fey. __ __ __ i slapped them all down, rebored 40k. __ __ __ H. __ __ __ My wife and I returned from Melbourne in our mid-twenties to raise children in close contact with our extended families, to buy an affordable mind and to 'give back to our local community'. __ __ __ Within my mouth you have enjailed my tongue, Doubly portcullised with my teeth and lips, And dull unfeeling barren ignorance Is made my gaoler to attend on me. __ __ __ A good example of this is electronic music. __ __ __ The heat of exchange, the motion of thought, turns the ideas to gas. __ __ __ Proust wrote of objects that they contain qualities in the following terms 'the unconscious silence which inanimate objects preserve' Proust is suggesting that our engagement with an object evokes a sensation that is more insightful than a rational recollection through memory. __ __ __ 2006. __ __ __ Maintaining full empathetic openness to the other, though, has always been demanding. __ __ __ He could expect to pass the farm and the responsibilities eventually to one of his nephews. __ __ __ where are they? in my drawer-manilla case notes, redact for publication. __ __ __ I think in the past I was seeking relationships that would enable me to show off basically or give me new rivals to compete with. __ __ __ I certainly never intend to undermine you. __ __ __ What are you supposed to do if you don't like eating at restaurants. __ __ __ Proust's work stands as an alternative to this modus videre. __ __ __ The oblivious critic is known by nobody but in his absence from the scene (like Dylan's jack of hearts) can make a claim to know the famous other precisely because this category is never undermined by friendship or proximity. __ __ __ A walk to this wicket gate, with all the fading nations, with Freud and Marx, Ovid and Aesop; cuts the skin as if it were leaves on a new codex. __ __ __ Put simply, if all human beings were valued equally, why would we need fiscal redistribution - undersirablo suburbs would becomes just as desirable as any other part of town, old cars would give you just as much status as a new car and so on. __ __ __ We can see things, but from our place and through our present perspective. __ __ __ onstitutional. __ __ __ Marcin, In Search of Schopenhauer's Cat: Arthur Schopenhauer's Quantum-Mystical Theory of Justice, Catholic University of America Press, 2006, p. __ __ __ __ __ Anonymity, for instance, is one of the cardinal virtues of the harbour side suburb and something coveted with particular vehemence by émigré's from the township. __ __ What is missing from this formulation, though, is a sensitivity to the generic conventions of two kinds of writing, one a historical and ethnographic form interested in the embedded placement of modernity, and the other a social scientific form more attuned to the delineation of trends, statistical models and broad synthetic shapes. __ The act of displacement that Windschuttle completes in Fabrication was also always a goal I had in mind when I began to think about the way that modernity's developmental trajectories have been played out here in Tasmania. __ But these speech acts are not hopelessly dispersed. __ __ __ This transposition however does not necessarily endorse or recuperate the dualistic distribution of political valency sometimes assigned to the cosmopolitical versus the bounded where the former is held up as an unalloyed good - progressive, enlightened, forward looking - while the latter is consigned to anachronistic irrelevance as retrograde, conformist and stifling. __ . __ __ __ Always it had started in a sort of cold-blooded wilfulness and ended in some mean, callous desertion. __ __ __ (eds) Visuality/Materiality: Images, Objects and Practices, Aldershot: Ashgate Press. __ When I began researching this book, I was not aware of the work Windschuttle was preparing for The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, but I was to run into his scholarship in the early stages of my own deliberations. __ . __ __ __ Speed and Other Liberties, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2008. __ This book consists of an extended introductory component followed by three sections that chart an uneven course through historical time from the invasion of Tasmania in 1803 to the present. __ __ __ How would you know if you'd done it. __ The second essay, "A Plural Line of Sight", moves forward in time to the age of hydro-electric industry, positioning a micro-history of Tasmanian industrialisation and a précis of the larger story of nature and modernity, between two readings of the phenomenological compression of wilderness and industry at two locations across the state. __ __ __ When a new mind needed building, he would organize it. __ __ __ Veblin, T. __ The modernity stream of the book charts a course through three different entanglements with modernity and modernisation. __ The third and final part of the modernity stream focuses on the emotional attachment that the Tasmanian population has formed with its electricity-generating history and infrastructure. __ This is an important achievement because it neutralises the shibboleth of a cheapened version of Derrida's "there is nothing outside the text", the disingenuous reductio ad absurdum that many critics of the deconstructive approach rehearse. __ [. __ __ __ Even though he is a dreadful writer and little more than a systemic expression, David Foster Wallace's (Dallas-Fort Worth) quote - no doubt chosen by the marketing department at Little, Brown or gathered by an epigraph harvester, "We fill pr-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed" is useful here. __ __ __ (Proust Date) Conclusions What then? Here is where the chalet transforms itself from a mnemonic trigger to a storage device . __ __ __ . __ __ __ Hobart presents a good snapshot of what happens when openness, diversity, cafes and subcultures spread to the cosmopolitan township, or, indeed, the compact cosmopolitan city, but still run up against relative poverty, isolation, jingoism and boorishness. __ __ __ World Cups, Olympics. __ __ __ The decisive cosmopolitan antinomy - people are open or people are closed - is, I would like to suggest, a non-place-specific formulation. __ At any given point in the history of Tasmania, these two trajectories position their moments of enunciation as dialogical nodes connecting the past with the future. __ On the one hand, genocide and modernity are thematic clusters with historical form: objects of knowledge that are contained within the Tasmanian archive. __ __ __ html> viewed 24 March 2011> The line between relativism and pluralism is smeared and blurred and the dominance of both in a cultural setting creates serious problems because of the inevitable levelling of value and values that seems to follow in its wake. __ __ __ It takes effort to read and it is really only worthwhile because it is hard to do. __ __ __ My father is quite different. __ __ __ Thrift, N. __ __ __ So subjectivity is always emplaced in material world. __ __ __ The writing of A. __ The archive both records and enables different relations to the past, present and future that can be mapped. __ __ __ This is the exclusion that constitutes the writers privacy and their individuality especially when individuality is regarded as structural rather than absolute or transcendent or indeed, calimed by fiat. __ __ Quentin Skinner, however, has argued in relation to Charles Taylor's work on disenchantment that [w]e have come to believe that we ourselves are the sources and creators of the values by which we live. __ __ __ The repetitions. __ __ __ (Proust 2003:193) In this passage Proust is suggesting that mere description can never capture experience. __ My point here is that through time the enfolding of language, opinion and fact performed by the archive takes different forms. __ __ __ Objects shape the world in ways that humans do. __ __ __ Objects are always in a process of transformation and translation. __ Initially, the entire thrust of my project was directed toward a reversal of the notion that Tasmania had been left behind by modernity. __ To address the problem of signal to noise presented by this formulation, this book targets the narrow frequency ranges of genocide and modernity, providing a provisional and partial tabulation of their unfolding through the Tasmanian archive. __ __ __ As such, most anti-cosmopolitan gestures are small, mundane and curmudgeonly. __ These two trajectories mirror each other, I contend, in that the first embodies a collective despair and recuperates its emotional charge from the past, while the latter embodies a collective hope and looks forward to the future. __ __ __ Our ways of seeing are increasingly subject to routine and distraction with the results that what we know is superficial. __ __ Businessmen work in the shadows building cartels and monopolies and sometimes as in the failed mineral super tax, the two forces confront one another or are forced to use various forms of propaganda to gain public approval for their position. __ __ __ The notion of romantic materialism can be used to convey what Proust is alluding to. __ __ __ What is the origin of the thirst for change? What is the source of this discontent? Why do people break down so dramatically in the face of uncomfortable truth? Why do universities allow students to study unreason? If one cannot speak to the other in a shared language, or if that shared language has too many dark dips and corners where other ideas lurk, why must it be so hard for both parties to admit that they are unsure of what they are saying? Why would it occur to someone that another person is intimidated by them, when this other is really doing her best to understand at all? To misrecognise an earnest tolerance and conscientious curiosity for signs of intimidation suggests a large chasm of misunderstanding that one would expect from people of vastly different cultures, nations or tribes perhaps. __ At face value, the national significance of Windschuttle's book would appear to lie in its bold contention that respected, high-profile historians like Lyndall Ryan and Henry Reynolds had deliberately doctored empirical data so as to underline emphatically their argument that the Australian colonial frontier was, in the first instance, a site of carnage and, in the second, of organised, guerilla resistance. __ __ __ So she might be a doctor. __ __ __ For Bourdieu, the meanings we attach to objects are, to a large degree, externally imposed by the consumer values and ideology. __ This tranche of developments is serendipitous in the context of this book because it brings home the fact that "minor" places can attain a "major" significance if they are looked at in an expedient light. __ The colony of Van Diemen's Land, as it was originally known, comes first because it has long been regarded as the worst-case scenario. __ By historicising the archival articulations that are the primary objects of my investigations, I mimic the forms of language that carry them "officially" from the past into the present. __ In combination with the purchase of three vessels, aptly titled Spirit of Tasmania I, II and III, for plying the Bass Strait between Tasmania and the Australian mainland, I aim to show here that the collective decision to retain public control of the Hydro-Electric Commission marks a partial re-enchantment of the state. __ __ P R E F A T O R Y How are we to conceive of the [archive], if it corresponds neither to the archive in the strict sense - that is, the storehouse that catalogs the traces of what has been said, to consign them to future memory - nor to the Babelic library that gathers the dust of statements and allows for their resurrection under the historian's gaze. __ Sections two through four comprise the detailed reading of the Tasmanian archive. __ __ __ As she writes 'by narrating stories about and around the objects they display in their homes, individuals can account for identities that otherwise might not be immediately present or presentable'. __ __ __ High poetic speech has no clear place in our society especially when our political leaders aree bound by technical nuance and muffled checks by media advisors. __ __ __ 9 - Japan and New Zealand best - 4. __ To this end, this book also looks at how large-scale, abstracted socio-cultural logics play themselves out on a local stage. __ __ __ Authors, of course, are my friends as well and when I write I feel as if I am writing to them and with them. __ Drawing on a theoretical model taken from Dipesh Chakrabarty's Provincializing Europe: Historical Difference and Postcolonial Thought (2000), this chapter proposes a reappraisal of a consummately modern concept - rationalisation - through an examination of the anti-rationalist refusal of privatisation enacted by the Tasmanian electorate in the 1998 state poll. __ __ __ Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. __ __ __ Proust's work shows that the significance of objects is not so much their material existence but their relational effects on the social world. __ See Margaretta Pos, "Jews upset by Mansell," 30 September, 2003. __ __ Following Chakrabarty's lead, a site-based analysis of the clash of disenchantment and re-enchantment in a non-European modernity makes possible the decentring of Euro-centric conceptions of the modern precisely because it demonstrates that the putatively modern and the putatively non-modern can act together within a frame that is itself inescapably modern. __ This rediscovery of identity is an instructive example of the way an archive can bear witness to a transformation in the rules governing what can and can't be said about a given place. __ __ __ Laing wrote about games that got tangled-up and ensnared the players. __ At others, I re-read episodes of Tasmanian history as if they refer to a concrete referent, a social totality or substantive extra-linguistic place. __ __ __ As your car fought its way across West Texas along Intersate 20 in the blistering heat and it felt as though you had been in the state for a week and had another week to go before you saw any sign of human life, they suddenly rose out of the emptiness like territorial forts. __ __ __ Or rather, what he might have meant had he added that, by not reading good books we will almost make ourselves stupid and bad. __ 226-46. __ To the reader well-versed in Tasmaniana, it proposes a re-inscription and a reassessment. __ Here, the archive is encoded through the work of Foucault so that it comes to designate "the system of relations between the unsaid and the said", or "the dark margin encircling and limiting every concrete act of speech. __ . __ Each of these three parts is given a temporal heading that performs an uneven periodisation: uneven, because this is not the kind of reconstructive thesis that purports to tell a story stretched out along a linear chronology. __ __ __ But can we expect anyone else to be interested? How odd it must feel to know that the words you write have a guaranteed audience. __ The novel is social, the author of the novel thinks socially. __ The discovery of Zygmunt Bauman's influential work Modernity and the Holocaust (1989) seemed to take this path in an intriguing direction so I followed it, first, to Henry Reynolds' An Indelible Stain: The Question of Genocide in Australian History (2001), then to Bill Thorpe and Raymond Evans' thoroughgoing demolition of Windschuttle's Quadrant pieces from the mid-1990s, "Indigenocide and the Massacre of Aboriginal History" (2001). __ __ __ In the end, he is really quite old, one could almost say, well, if not really elderly, almost. __ __ __ S. __ It has a secondary function, however, that derives from its place in Giorgio Agamben's discourse on Emile Benveniste's "The Semiology of Language" as described in Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive. __ __ __ A hierarchy here has something to do with power and aptitude. __ The modernity thread that runs through this book was thus, almost from the outset, intimately bound up with the genocide thread. __ Rather, their mutually constitutive arising subtends an antinomy of place and language. __ By drawing attention to the way the archive encloses the material conditions that make possible a given statement, Agamben prevents the "virtuality" of the discourse itself from entirely eclipsing the objects to which it is wed. __ 48. __ This kind of substitution is nothing new in its own right, other parts of Australia have long been invoked as worthy settings for the telling of national narratives: the Victorian goldfields of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, the innercity Sydney slums of Bobbin Up or the Melbourne bohemia of Monkeygrip. __ The intermingling of these dialectical opposites through the visual experience of the perceiving subject metaphorises the ideational splitting that produces the complementary definitions of wilderness and nature in modernity. __ To my knowledge, the explosion of debate blasted into the public sphere by Windschuttle's book, is the first and only instance of "official" Tasmanian history being used to re-write an "official" Australian history. __ __ __ (2001) 'Thing thoery' Critical Enquiry 28, 1. __ Throughout the history of the Tasmanian archive both genocide and modernisation have been made the subject of contested, affectively charged statements, propositions and utterances. __ Those historians now upheld as the most reputable on the subject assure us that the Tasmanian Aborigines were subject to a 'conscious policy of genocide'. __ __ __ New York and London: Routledge. __ To the uninitiated, it serves as a general introduction. __ Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge, translated by Alan Sheridan (London: Tavistock Publications, 1972), p. __ __ __ The OPEC response to American support for Israel's end game strike on Palestine and the failed anchovy fisheries that inflated the cost of agricualtural production at around the same time, kicked off a reset of the culrual logics of the west that endangerd central semiotic categories such as newness, originality, the genius, reality, truth and so on. __ __ __ Every world is as knowable as it is unknowable. __ The temporalisation of the book is the first order of its organisation, but there is a second order that is equally important. __ 144-45. __ The optic through which we examine a place and its symbolic economies needs to be well chosen if we intend to succeed in this task. __ If the Tasmanians won't face up to [selling the Hydro-Electric Commission], their future is as a declining offshore craft and produce market, kept afloat by handouts from mainland taxpayers who may, one day, revolt. __ . __ Windschuttle writes: Although the series starts in Tasmania, it will eventually cover the whole of the continental mainland. __ __ __ (1987). __ Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostevsky's Poetics, translated by Caryl Emerson, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), pp. __ There is no possibility in this thesis that the plane of my discourse will be destroyed. __ __ In his forward to W. __ __ __ Select Bibliography: Appiah, K. __ Keith Windschuttle's much publicised challenge to "orthodox" accounts of civilisational interaction on the Australian frontier, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847 (2003), had just been published and a lively, multiform and oftentimes downright nasty debate was only just hitting its stride. __ __ __ (2001) 'Rights of passage: On the liminal identity of art in the border zone', in F. __ __ __ co. __ It is both about, and constitutive of, Tasmania in a social-symbolic sense. __ It encloses a language that is anchored to speakers, places and events: phenomena that translate matter into meaning. __ Aram Veeser, ed. __ __ __ The irreproachability of a claim to honour philosophy provision in a hypothetical context --we have the space, we have the skills, we have the materials- constantly butts up against the reality of the private control of land on a large scale and the determination of non-property holders to work towards securing their own post-mortgage title. __ . __ Some of them are bound together in contingent assemblage by their collective emergence from a series of shared moments of inauguration. __ __ __ We say these words in an off-hand way that does little to conceal our more pressing need to condemn and rebuke. __ __ __ In Howard's End, E. __ The two contrapuntal trajectories of genocide and modernity carry this suspension over into the pragmatic unfolding of place identity in Tasmania. __ __ __ King, P. __ __ __ Perhaps this cosmopolitan equality of recognition renders us all finally in the same shades of grey. __ __ __ As I am cynical, I would say that this form of writing is often indicative of the overriding priority to show off and demonstrate expertise rather than provide elucidation. __ __ __ Reading provides a way for me to reflect on my own life experiences. __ __ __ Nestle vendors in the slums of Rio -awesome! It's all good. __ __ __ (Thomas 1991:25) Instead, Thomas claims that any attempt to establish a typology of meaning around subject object relations will close off the other ways in which objects perform. __ __ __ Anyone who has been to London knows what a hell-hole of inequality it is and travelling to Paris on eurostar only hammers home the fact when the supposedy arrogant and aloof French turn out to be delightful, welcoming and joyous (in April!). __ __ __ All of a sudden I can see the wisdom in your approach. __ From the time of Trukanini's death until the modern Aboriginal rights movement found its feet, the archive carried the place of Aboriginality as a present absence imprinted in fading ink on its corpus. __ __ __ . __ __ __ But these three kings, at least, have yet to proffer the usual gifts of gold and incense and myrrh. __ Volume One of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History is dedicated solely to an examination of the landmark events of the Tasmanian genocide - the Risdon Massacre, the Cape Grim Massacre and so on - but it is also clearly looking outward: to the other editions in the trilogy that are to follow, and to the field of Australian Aboriginal history and politics more generally. __ __ __ "Basically, an event is what decides about a zone of encyclopedic indiscernibility" (TW 147). __ __ __ Well how about this? Do you feel like you fit into Hobartian ways and would you be less lonely and more adventurous if you were back in London? Don't worry I'm not going to suggest a trip to Brazzaville. __ The heuristic division of Tasmania's cultural temporality into three parts reflects the phenomenal "truth" that the people of this island worked and lived in a social cosmos that was always on the way toward becoming something other than what it was. __ Notes Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, translated by Eric Prenowitz (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996). __ Because the archive responds to the being of language, as well as to its fecundity of meaning, its location is simultaneously discursive and material. __ That the diegesis of Flanagan's novel is set within the temporal parameters of the section is not the main issue here because other material that clearly falls outside its range allows the chapter to function. __ __ __ But I still don' know why you say you're so lonely. __ __ __ Religious philosophy that considers God (a non-human actor) for instance or Walter Benjamin in the arcades, or Sennet's Hidden Injuries of Class (ideological Hardt and Engri Homo Homo - mediaion We were wrong in suggesting that "modernity has failed to Calling this move post-social also seems counterintuitive as it aims to be more social, more extra-human than the 'humanist' hegemony of atomised rational utility maximisers. __ __ __ I am paid to deliver these mysterious 'practical' jurisdiction bound documents consistently, thereby staking my labour value at exactly thirty two dollars and ten cents an hour. __ Poetics on the other hand, and I think this is Greenblatt's point, can best be thought as a private, but not reactionary, attempt to order the world through language. __ __ * In recent writings, Richard Jenkins. __ The past survives for my purposes as a loose collection of fragments that need not always be shaped by a strong narrative trajectory. __ __ __ An event is the naming of something for which the 'encyclopedia of knowledge' had no language; it is the calling into existence what the situation (the encyclopeadia) did not allow. __ In spite of this permeability, these divisions have their usefulness. __ If destruction is set in train, it is surely a creative destruction. __ __ __ To be not-quite cosmopolitan might be worse a fate than to be way off the mark: A short stroll from any of the major hotels or transit points you'll find Tasmania's premier commercial centre Hobart's CBD. __ As a temporalised assemblage of freestanding essays, the threads of continuity that hold it together are the contrapuntal problematics of genocide and modernisation. __ " The archive in this sense does not bring together the content of what has been written or said about Tasmania but, rather, marks the conditions of its "sayability", the material but non-communicative dimensions that attend every act of enunciation. __ It also reaches back, however, to draw on primary material from the field diaries of George Augustus Robinson that is then re-situated in a contemporary context. __ __ __ The social inclusion report here said 13 percent were excluded which is not such a bad result. __ Neither place nor discourse are collapsed into one another in this equation. __ This mimicry, it needs be said, is more akin to tribute than to parody, incorporating the linearity of the hegemonic historical forms without necessarily honoring their content. __ In the case of Modernity Studies, the objective is to situate my reading of a non-metropolitan, peripheral modernity in the context of the increasingly large body of work interested in de-centring modernity from its traditional homelands in Europe and North America. __ __ __ 159-173) Habermas, Jurgen. __ Each of the three sections that make up the body of the text includes an essay written in accordance with the tonal oppositions of the two contrapuntal trajectories of genocide and modernity. __ __ __ 69. __ The archive provides us with a way to link language games to specific places even as those places are in part a product of the discourses that they anchor. __ The last chapter of this thesis is filed under the rubric of restoration, a decision prompted by the recognition that the texts with which it engages are of an extended historical moment defined by full presence, and the awareness that the question of genocide in Tasmanian history has only been taken up properly in the wake of this re-materialisation. __ 3. __ The hypostatisation of a fluid, lived temporality thus enacted is as essential as it is ultimately inadequate. __ Part three, encloses an interval of one hundred and two years, from the death of the "last Tasmanian" Trukanini to the screening of Tom Haydon's documentary The Last Tasmanian: A Story of Genocide (1978). __ The genocide thread moves from the moment of European "settlement" in Tasmania to the "extinction" of the Aborigines after Trukanini's death. __ __ __ We argue that Proust's work is significant because in many ways his writings anticipate the insights provided by scholars such as Daniel Miller and Pierre Bourdieu. __ The contrapuntal method, as I develop it in this thesis then, is a private, a personal, and, hopefully, a poetic approach. __ __ __ In the township on the other hand, support networks abound. __ __ __ In recent years, for instance, CEOs of large companies have managed to negotiate rapidly ballooning salaries that now factors up to 300 times the wages of their 'normal' employees. __ __ __ blogspot. __ My account of the story of how Tasmania came to be a place of genocide and a place of modernity is split between the two registers under examination. __ But these cartographies are always partial, it needs to be remembered, for the same reason that periodisation always presents as an affront to the organic streams of lived temporality. __ A fluid, permeable entity, the Tasmanian archive is a mobile site where the text and talk of everyday discursivity are gathered together. __ Perhaps we might more precisely describe their operative dimension as multilateral or omni-directional. __ What is unique here, and it needs to be noted that we are talking historical rather than fictional discourse, is that Tasmania now becomes the exemplary locus for the staging of an historiographical performance that seeks to reorder an entire sub-disciplinary terrain that is itself the setting for a variety of important debates about nationhood, racism and cultural identity. __ In the case of a concrete location like Tasmania, the very physicality of a statement reflected in the archive connects that statement to the place it names. __ The form of this interrogation is dialectical. __ __ __ Inevitably many gifted young thinkers and communicators will be squeezed out of the system for Be a philosopher, be a mummy, represent monotono-theism by a gravedigger-mimicry ! - And away, above all with the body , that pitiable idde fixe of the senses! Infected with every error of logic there is, refuted, impossible even, notwithstanding it is impudent enough to behave as if it actually existed!'. __ After the screening of Haydon's film, however, the archive changed irrevocably to accommodate a retrospectively reconstructed continuity of existence and a present tense being-in-the-world. __ __ __ Another line of argument here is that the game-any game, it doesn't matter which-has declined as they have got older and today's players may be more powerful or more professional but they lack the grace, elegance, humility of the older generation. __ How, it asks, is the universal language of modernity given a regional inflection in Tasmania? What, it inquires, does a non-metropolitan modernity look like up-close? When, it poses, will it be possible to read a genocidal logic into a historical trajectory without invoking the Jewish Holocaust? Through an engagement with these and other questions, this book challenges the established ways of thinking about the island that I call home. __ __ __ The home holds and reflects (distorts) our fantasies about escaping from the battle fields of social fear, pecking orders, anxieties and absurdities that we hear so much about and that we witness with our own eyes every day (tree-change, sea-change). __ __ __ 900 The Schopenhauer family was wealthy and well-connected, and seems to have had a cosmopolitan propensity for travel and for language. __ __ In his introduction to the anthology Enduring Enchantments, Dube argues that the "idea of modernity rests on a rupture. __ __ In Chakrabarty's own example of how the experience of political modernity in India undermines the historicist project at the same time as its narration remains inextricably tied up with it, the promise of progress comes in the form of a conditional offer of national independence that is deferred on the grounds that its potential recipients are not yet civilised enough to rule themselves. __ Here, the telling of a national story, a story with national consequences, takes as its initial subject matter a set of localised events. __ __ __ , & M. __ There is a caveat that needs to be added to my delineation of the concept of the archive. __ The idea of naming a time - Van Diemonian, Tasmanian, Global - emerges out of a combination of fact and feeling that orientated my investigations. __ This thesis is an attempt at a poetics of culture cast in terms that draw on Stephen Greenblatt's framing of the project. __ __ __ and Tolia-Kelly, P. __ __ __ pp. __ __ __ Logically they should have been united, not only by the common bond of oil that had kept them in clothes for sixty years, but by the bonds of loneliness. __ Unless, of course, this falling apart takes place in the ear of the reader. __ __ __ It is still part of philosophy's purview to reread, deconstruct and intervene in unhelpful, inaccurate and divisive philosophy policies, conversations and prejudices; ways of knowing that treat the home as a docile body, a foreign object, bricks and mortar- an object central to our lives but ultimately separate from us. __ , The New Historicism, (New York: Routledge, 1989), p. __ The Tasmania archive trespasses into the order of things. __ __ __ This moment of "harmony of minds" is added to that of a "harmony with the nature of things". __ __ __ . __ __ __ Proust in effect fetishises objects in his novel by recording the intense feelings that these objects generate. __ This book places a frame around a collection of moments that carry a special resonance within the Tasmanian archive. __ __ __ Become a landlord. __ The Tasmanian archive is the locus for the storage of utterances that concern Tasmania, but it also plays a part in ushering a discursively mediated Tasmania into being. __ One of the goals of this book is to theorise the means by which non-linguistic experience of a given location becomes, under the influence of archival energy, a communicable matrix for the construction of place. __ At stake here was the official vision of the human landscape and race-relations of early European Australia. __ __ __ In either case, the epistemological resources of the home are indispensible to our attempts to develop a means of reading the shape of the world, of mapping our own place onto the striated imaginary of that world amid the cross currents of social meaning. __ The story of modernity in Tasmania mobilises a socio-political entity anterior to discourse, while the story of genocide as a meta-historical debate maps the surface of a field that is primarily rhetorical. __ __ __ Patterson, Harmondsworth: Penguin. __ __ __ 195. __ __ __ Faith in our Discipline: Poetry with Sociology after time in the New West. __ In its mediating capacity, the archive operates in an open-ended present, giving inflection to future orientations and retrospective reconstructions. __ In the case of genocide, I seek to locate my own analysis in a less specific sense by presenting a survey and typology of the terms in which the Tasmanian genocide has appeared across a range of literatures. __ Rather, they enter the agon in the company of future projections on apparently unrelated matters like the future of old growth logging to produce an ensembled dialogue, an echolalia that rolls the mnemonics of Tasmania's past into the wall of sound through which the present itself becomes audible. __ __ __ Hobart City Council, Living in Hobart, ![]() |
To this end, I present the world premiere of new
work from the wonderful, the talented, the deeply poetic: Lele Wise
(Kenny Fame), Jesse King and Lynn Hoffman Lele Wise KWANSABA: Aunt Sue's Mess O' Greens Simmered slowly with a chunk of salt Pork. Smoothing out the bitter flavor. I could not wait, to dip my corn bread into that rich pot-likker. Al Green's voice wailing from the kitchen, didn't stop those clanging pots & pans; where both her feet, were placed, with care. Jesse King Gare de Lyon Pleiades!, - tell us our future. A little girl shrugs w/a crutch, for instance has only one flip-flop and a little sister. Mother, goes inside a telephone booth --and their luggage falls. She shrugs a crutch carrying a cast signed with a cross. "Mother," she says. My Writing Her my writing was as long as a month missing her across continents, smudged with black days that memory pierces with gray hair on a calendar lighted with ash and salt surely her Tuesday hoop earrings unraveled ribbons and my love letters dissolved to the wind till Fridays, kissed with blood Today I'm knicked for a waitress breeze and then pass a hill overlooking-- she wasn't butterflies for when I kissed her over arguments augmented with Mercury and Mars May ends this war the start of March and the island Sundays where the bugs of Paris who blow themselves to death Missed Connection ignoring the blue flower merchants little petals who spoke a cafe where the Gypsy kid squatted? small and sweet pulled from the ground, I ask as life ends Lynn Hoffman my latest issue of Poetry Magazine people much more subtle than i poets slicing prosciutto thin as leaves spinners who can tie a thread around a spicebush limb in rittenhouse square then loop it down broad street to your clothes’ line at tenth and tasker people who see gods in hairpins and superman riding a downtown electrical discount bus tenured earnest gluten-free poets who pull the bath mat out from under your wet feet then gasp at your purple knees rap’s scallions who chop the thin vegetable rings of angrified cliche, go riding by sealed in trolley cars and i wish you baked the biscuit they crave i wish they’d get out more often and walk around the ‘hood and i wish they’d laugh and mostly mostly i wish they’d let you in. ![]() Ernest Williams I welcome poems because of love, poems that chain themselves to the syllabus, secret poems buried in glassy sand. Poetry Book Please direct them to me anastomoo@yahoo.com.au so doctrine unpicked the seams of a - Look see pink strutin skin lots. Swish swack elbow knee shoulder chest out. Side to side. Smilin. Knowin, her performin act. Enough light to set a fire who wouldn’t wanna. Light for dark. Go, see the show. Upliftin Betty. - Empty eye, nothing stupor, perch window, framed. Tree rose children. Him. Only. - Eye big askance. Inside out. Maybe. Drape. Close. Neila Mezynski column--> Spiros Kitsinelis Atlantis Demeter, reveal the blossomed land, the cold has lasted far too long, and Persephone is never coming back. Clear the skies almighty Zeus, you promised light and music to your son. Tame the waves Poseidon, make them sparkle in the sun. Aeolus calm the winds, help me find my way Hermes, for they are taking me away from Atlantis You will be breath of sea, you will be nostalgia When your mouth leaves and does not return. You will be my breeze when the wind drops, You will be fire beyond words. You will be the sky, void of my pages, And the prayer to announce my departure When the pain, this world and our life Take everything and leave me nothing. As harlequins in the wind Your laugh flies with me. It envelops me and rises in mid autumn, Makes me grow and mature in silence. Maybe it grows dark for some But, my love, only your love is enough for me To reach eternal paradise in life, To be able to daydream of your eyes, And so to forget, amongst all, those tears. I know that in life, no matter how, Fire is always extinguished by day. Night is short when winter looms, Time cures and heals wounds. To stop talking is not good medicine; I know the harbinger of light and agony Is being fulfilled, no matter when it arrives, Perhaps it is near and finds you asleep. You will not see it coming even if it is announced, Do you know how sweet and frivolous is this expectation? Because very soon you will emerge, it will be so easy Like coming full circle. Soon the night will come. You will succeed to leave the labyrinth. There are a lot of masks and it is true That we are nothing but dust and water. The earth is waiting for us. Defend me from the wind and from the scythe That will cut me in better times. Southwards, at noon, I shall be free Just like the sun that rises every morning. Just like the snow on the sea, I‘m crying. I am tired of waiting... And it is not in vain. Every sign of your voice, Every smile in your hair, Every tear, your cross, Every image in the sky. I fear everything might move away, That what scares us might increase, I fear that, more and more each time, You might become more and more remote. My time gets closer, I‘ve danced with the enemy But it will never be late To learn from my mistakes. I still feel that I didn‘t feel. But I believe in what I cannot see, I believe in my dreams. I believe everything is coming back to life, That it won‘t be easy if I don‘t try. That it could become real If I have faith in what I am, In what I‘ve given you, in what I‘ve been. If I trust what I have. Every sign of your cross, Every tear in your hair, Every smile in your voice Our reflection in the sky… I think that everything is true, I feel increasingly less pain. I still think it is better to leave Instead of watching wornout echoes. The high forehead, the intact heart, My fading soul, a fountain with no coins. The gray and senseless ashtray, The yesterday glasses full of absence... Having repeated the tour again and again, I begin to feel how the desert fills me. The hourglass has slowed and It will be the sea who heals my promises. I will draw my dreams again and again Whenever necessary, on leaving. ![]() ![]() Jellybean wings beat, rippling cadence: summer pestilence in all but disguise. Yours was not so sublime, pride in warpaint, that macho declaration that grinds you into society. Too entrenched in abuse to appreciate the magnitude of open doors; entire households of olive trees, given over to unopened palms, too busy collecting, collating the tragedy of memories. Sabotage love, quell eager mouths, that need fed answers, only regurgitate to dumb nest-creatures. Nestle in the warmth of their forever following, mistreated branches to build your wattle, solidified, impenetrable by silent weeping. This sad solicitation of blood letting, meagre in scope to moral devastation, encompassed in a scar on the butterfly’s wing. Bio Based in N orthern Irel and poetry for over 10 years, she has had several poems published in local magazine's and online e-zine's, Black Cat Poems, Speech Th erapy and Allo Trope. She has previously been p art of a local writing group at the Craic Th eatre and has performed some of her work in local Theatre s and the Du ngannon Bor ough Council Arts Festival. Her poetry is mo stly inspired by observation and the human condition and emotion. She is curre ntly wor king full-time for a national newspaper and is currently studying for her degree. |
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__ Left alone as a theoretical model, rational choice theory would
probably have done little harm, but the replacement of Keynesianism
with neo-liberalism as the economic instrument of choice for
politicians and élite public servants in the English speaking world
since the mid-1970s has unleashed the rational choice model into the
world of policy and social engineering.
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__ It does, and in doing, gives Tasmania a chance to profit even more
from the sale of the Hydro, a measure which only those with eyes fixed
firmly on the past can continue to deny.
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The period of the novel extends from the 1870s to the aftermath of the
First World War and it can be read in part as long extended discussion
of the major societal shifts taking place in France in which the
hegemony of the aristocracy was under threat from an increasingly
confident and assertive middle class.
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__ The argument held that the individual voter would make substantive
gains as a result of selling the Hydro because he or she would be the
recipient of better funded State Government services.
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__ When providence could not even distantly be used to analyse economic
affairs, what alternative arguments might establish the beneficence of
the free market system?
In this context, Keynes' lack of faith in the beneficence of the
economic system looks like a gesture of disenchantment.
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__ " From the perspective of self-determination and autonomy, the
question is whether this elaboration is based on immanent designs or
whether it steadfastly continues to quote from the traditional
entrepôts.
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__ The tragedy of modernity is that unless one has taken these forms of
mental life as a vocation, the dominance of science and economics will
produce a meaningless world evacuated of "Truth" and filled only with
an endless supply of "true knowledge" that is by definition temporary
and fallible.
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wide Sargasso Sea, homi bhaba, trin t minh ha, tony hawk, Mount
Rushmore, Yuri Gagarin,
For hours they stare at the desert sands, percepting the sensible
rhythm of the desert sands.
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__ The family firm is still intact.
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__ In speaking of modernities are we merely saying that Indian
modernity is different from German modernity, which is then different
from, say, Mexican or Venezuelan modernity? If this is the case, what
modalities of power are occluded here, not only in relation to
authoritative grids of empire and globalisation, but also within
non-Western formations of state and nation? Equally, by invoking a
bloated and singular modernity centred on the West in order to
interrogate the homogenising impulses of projects of power, do we
perhaps succumb to reified representations of an imaginary but tangible
Europe that overlook the labor of difference within the work of
domination?
(Saurabh Dube, 2002)
As if trying to comprehend the cold dam's unfathomable mystery, Sonja
stretched her arms out to embrace the bottom of that vast curved
concrete wall […] At that moment Sonja felt herself a child once more.
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Critics of inequaity who consider themselves more realistic than the
recognition school, argue for a different approach to the utopis of
differential human valuing.
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Tasmania is always internally modernising.
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For his part, Jenkins points us in the direction of a set of ostensibly
anti-modern practices, faiths, creeds and imaginations that still exert
a sway over the habitual orientations of modern individuals.
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The global trend toward neo-liberal privatization arrived in Tasmania
with a bang in the lead up to the 1998 state election when the sitting
Liberal government proposed a sale of the Hydro-Electric Commission
that it had previously broken up into generating, distribution and
retail arms.
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__ Despite Chakrabarty's claim that historicism does not imply
teleology, however, it remains the case that the radicalising potential
of Indian entanglements with modernity operates within a horizon marked
at one end by a European political form: liberal, capitalist democracy.
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__ It is not something to be traded for a temporary political
advantage, as the people of Tasmania may well find to their cost.
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__ The extrapolation of a set of deracinated logics of modernity from
their origins in Enlightenment Europe and out onto the territories of
the colonial world seems at first glance to complement the endeavours
of the community of scholars who have sought in recent times to bring
the pressing claims of alternative modernities to our attention.
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The Hegelian model of the state can be read as an attempt to enact a
partial re-enchantment of the world in the context of the dialectic of
transcendence and immanence that has always attended the troping of
enchantment.
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__ Now they realised phlegmatically that for some time to come they
were blown off course.
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__ We are catching up, this joy pronounces, the horizon of the present
is attainable yet.
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__ Tasmania finds itself in the odd situation of trying to find a
toehold to exert its own modernising plans in the face of a cultural
storm blowing ceaselessly from elsewhere.
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The protestant ethic embodied in Calvinist responses to the doctrine of
pre-destination is the pre-eminent example of the latter form.
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__ Against this methodological backdrop, the writing of history with
all its concomitant sensitivity to the concrete and the empirical
presents as a liberating alternative.
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__ Historicist readings of non-European locations that find a stumbling
block in these "indigenous" characteristics are railroaded into
constructing their places of arrest as inadequate, lacking and
immature.
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__ It means the advancement of Tasmania, and the making of her [into]
what she has never been, never would have been, but for this great
power scheme.
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__ I feel that deeply, this turning of the sod which will bring the
waters of the Shannon to do their great work in the Power House.
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__ In this regard, I believe, the answer is relatively obvious.
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__ This campaign stood as a cleverly manipulated mobilisation of the
past to safeguard the future and it is hardly ironic that proponents of
the Hydro's sale should have criticized their opponents for taking an
anachronistic stance.
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__ Jenkins refutes Weber's description of a world-historical trajectory
through which
the natural world and all areas of human experience become experienced
and understood as less mysterious, defined at least in principle, as
knowable, predictable and manipulable by humans; conquered by and
incorporated into the interpretive schemas of science and rational
government.
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__ In a succinct account of these moves, Milan Zafirovski charts the
attempt by economic thinkers of the rational choice school to absorb
the category of the social into their own epistemological formulation.
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__ Those in attendance that day could have been in little doubt as to
the register of Bacon's appeal to the Tasmanian electorate: "That is
why", he stated in conclusion, "we know in our hearts that it is wrong
to sell the Hydro.
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__ The metaleptic error here is summed up in his prophetic conviction
that, with hindsight on their side, the Tasmanian community would
finally realise the error of its ways and return the state to the
historicist path marked out for it in his book.
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__ The offer being made to the Tasmanian electorate was essentially
utilitarian.
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__ Sport is supposed to sublimate battle but the opportunity cost of
renovations and new stadia right across the 'great' city of London is
easily enumerated.
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__ Second, I see academic writing in the broader context of the
neo-liberal market that we are all required to engage with.
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__ In the Tasmanian case, the external lobbying for the sale of the
Hydro came from Federal Government quarters, the national "quality"
press and the local media.
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In the disenchanted world of modernity God is no longer immanent, but
morality is no longer objectively grounded.
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__ Possessed of a notion of the social as the sum totality of what R.
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__ But the Enlightenment had effected the rapid decay of the prestige
of religious justifications, however remote, of human affairs.
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__ " This historical unfolding, however, is not without its
contrapuntal double, a reinsertion of the superstitious, the messianic
and the mystical into the daily life-worlds of modern subjects and the
institutions through which they operate as social actors:
Yet processes of modernity also create their own enchantments.
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C H A P T E R 11 An Enchanted State: Rationalisation and the Spirit of
Tasmania
Take the example of that plural, modernities.
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Fighting to win a different kind of power in 1998, the Bacon opposition
showed a shrewd insight into the feelings of their prospective
constituency when they outlined their plan to keep the Hydro in public
hands.
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__ For one thing, the concept of the invisible hand so central to
classical economics of a Smithian kind, has been taken as the extension
into the commercial realm of a beneficent world order guaranteed by the
presence of a Christian god:
Smith and probably other theists like Condillac and Turgot ultimately
sustained their belief in the ideal workings of the system on the
supposition that the world had been designed by the 'designer' in a
beneficent fashion.
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__ Under 'material rationality' on the other hand, he [Weber] meant the
rationalisation of the conduct of the individual in respect to ultimate
value positions, which could under certain conditions lead to
far-reaching changes of society.
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The historicist dimension of the plan to divest the state of its
electricity generating assets transforms the "not yet" uttered to
Indian proto-nationalists by their colonial masters into a "get a move
on" driven by agents of exactly the kind of local imperial centres that
Chakrabarty describes in Provincializing Europe.
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__ Society becomes the sum totality of individual economic actors
mobilising to maximise utility.
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Furthermore, a boundary line is pegged out to separate the hostile
regimes of history and modernity, a boundary line that is designed to
conceal the memory that modernity and modernisation were once the
subjects of history, and that modernity is perhaps indistinguishable
from what we call the history of modernity.
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__ Jane Bennett's The Enchantment of Modern Life, continues this
counter-offensive through a mobilisation of the shock troops of
embodiment philosophy and science studies.
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__ The positing of the wise élite who could marshal the forces of the
economy for the public good, however, opens out into a contiguous field
of enchantment marked primarily by the Hegelian notion of World Spirit
actualizing itself in the state.
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__ The insight here is nothing short of profound.
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__ It is almost as if Townsley's history of Tasmania was already
written in advance, and the intrusion of reality arrived as an
unwelcome cause to redraft its conclusion.
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__ The play of difference that Chakrabarty extracts from his archive is
activated and contained by the "not yet" uttered by the imperial
someone to the colonial nobody.
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__ The historians who have been allocated the task of writing these
histories find themselves trying to catch up with an ever-receding
horizon.
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__ It dissociates modernity from its modern European origins and
stylizes it into a spatio-temporally neutral model for processes of
social development in general.
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__ To this historicist "not yet", Chakrabarty juxtaposes the Third
World call of "now".
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__ I think we'll find ourselves in a fruitful place somewhere between
scholarship proper and cultural or social criticism of a broader, more
accessible sort.
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__ More recent readings of the economic fundamentals of the proposal
are unanimous in their indictment of a monetary commitment that would
have come close to bankrupting the state.
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__ People often say that they are writing for themselves, in a private
language perhaps, but I have seen enough clinical madness.
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__ This is indicated by attempts at making economics an 'imperial
science', or a 'universal grammar of social science', in the form of
economic approach to all human behaviour engaging in the 'colonisation'
of social science.
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__ Keynes' radical re-politicisation of economics after the Great
Depression constituted a re-enchantment of the state simply because it
challenged the pre-eminence of the value sphere of economics as capable
of determining the ends of the social more generally.
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__ As William Connolly has argued:
When previous understandings of God's hand in the world wilted, early
modern thinkers tried to enliven them by transplanting God into reason,
or nature, or Spirit or the subject […] Hegel rationalises faith but
his Spirit must be known to be believed by moderns and there is no way
to demonstrate its truth.
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Zafirovski frames his catalogue of the insurgency of rational choice
economics with the contention that modern sociology developed
specifically out of frustration with the anti-institutional and
anti-social perspectives implicit in utilitarianism.
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__ Knight's subdued prose masks a declaration of L'état ce'est moi.
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__ In Australia, Michael Pusey describes this shift in the title of his
book, Economic Rationalism in Canberra: A Nation-Building State Changes
its Mind.
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__ But Townsley seems oddly oblivious to the ramifications.
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__ Turning their back on the project of building a nation, a process
that J.
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__ In recent times, the doctrine of economic rationalism has been
identified by critics on the left of politics as an attempt by
champions of the economic value sphere to take over the value sphere of
the political.
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__ In the first network, hope moves out along a temporal plane where
Europe becomes the modern ideal for other locations to build towards,
while in the second, empirical reality itself is prodded and poked by
frustrated agents of modernisation fervently set on reconciling the
actual with the ideal.
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__ Knight eulogises the abrupt termination of his plan for the future
with a cautionary note:
A problem with hydro-electric schemes, unsupported by thermal or other
kinds of power, is the storage of sufficient water to see the system
through dry periods.
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__ Both the content and the form of this will-to-modernity are
Euro-centric.
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__ This is a weak inclusion that fails to take account of the various
ways in which Tasmania is constructed as backward, non-modern,
anti-modern and "magical", even as it contains no constitutive outside
to the processes of modernity normally formed by the presence of a
residual indigenous tradition.
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__ Theorists of multiple modernities thus find themselves fighting a
fire on two fronts as the dual threat of Euro-centrism and homogeneity
encroaches on the conceptual space they seek to open up.
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__ If we apply this theoretical insight to the model of theistic
enchantment, God's underpinning of a totalising moral framework,
cosmogony and guide to pragmatic action must necessarily emanate from a
position outside the world.
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__ The story of the disenchantment and re-enchantment of economics,
however, is not an even one.
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__ The investment of collective pride in the achievements of the Hydro
goes back to the very first project completed under its auspices.
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__ From a state development perspective, an intense interest is
maintained in the statistical profile of the local community in the
context of changes affecting the rest of Australia.
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__ There is a peculiar way in which all these other histories tend to
become variations on a master narrative that could be called "the
history of Europe.
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__ And the defining moment in this history? Nothing other than a
variation on the theme of what Chakrabarty refers to as the "greviously
incomplete" scenario of a Eurocentric modernist transition narrative.
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__ And even if political modernity of a European kind could be achieved
in these regions, it would only encourage the retrospective
identification of an ersatz Europeanness made visible by a
methodological approach that gathers itself around the only subject of
history that is theoretically knowable.
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__ The setting for the speech in which Bacon declaimed his party's
position couldn't have been better chosen.
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__ " The potential irony here is that studies of this kind might
actually just reiterate in a different dialect the provincialising of
Europe supposedly achieved by the modernisation theory described by
Habermas.
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__ Zafirovski's essay traces the history of an academic turf war, but
the place of rational choice theory in the consolidation of free-market
thinking in the national bureaucracies of Canada, the USA, the UK, New
Zealand and Australia amongst other places, testifies to the more
generalised significance of his argument:
The recent expansion of the rational choice model to sociology and
other social sciences has often been an expression of the imperialistic
ambitions of economists.
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Just as non-Western locations like India provide an outside that is
also interior to an expanded narrative of modernity, Tasmania's
engagement with modernity took, and continues to take, empirical twists
and turns that demand a recasting of the conceptual make-up of
modernity.
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__ Enchantments that extend from the immaculately imagined origins and
ends of modernity, to the dense magic of money and markets, to novel
mythologies of nation and empire, to hierarchical oppositions between
myth and history, ritual and rationality, East and West, and tradition
and modernity.
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The Rundle government translated these doxa into a program for action
when it proposed an elimination of state debt within eighteen months of
the election through the sale of the Aurora (retail) and Transend
(distribution) businesses and the ninety nine-year lease of the HEC's
generating assets.
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__ Llobera nominates as one of the re-enchantments of modernity, the
neophytes of economic rationalism elided entirely the distinctions
between economy and society.
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__ In a shrewd calculation he alluded to the intimate connection
between the HEC and the emergence of a multicultural Tasmania after
World War II, juxtaposing this cosmopolitan celebration with the gentle
xenophobic warning that privatisation would see control ceded to a
financial institution in "Paris, Tokyo, or Dallas".
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The theoretical basis for Chakrabarty's insistence on this point is his
Marxian interpretation of historicist transition narratives.
__ __ As Coronil states in the case of Venezuela:
Typically the Venezuelan state astonishes through the marvels of power
rather than convinces through the power of reason, as reason itself is
made part of the awe-inspiring spectacle of its rule.
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__ Such sites of enchantment today include, for example, the discovery
of sophisticated modes of communication among nonhumans, the strange
agency of physical systems at far-from-equilibrium states, and the
animation of objects by video technologies?an animation whose effects
are not fully captured by the idea of "commodity fetishism".
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__ It saw a more competitive economy as promoting productivity, and
posited that free trade combined with deregulation would force the
Canadian economy to make structural adjustments that would enhance
productivity and lead to higher growth.
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__ As she notes:
I […] think there is enough evidence of everyday enchantment to warrant
the telling of an alter-tale.
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__ Operating firmly within the horizon that holds that the market is
the best available mechanism for resource allocation, the Rundle
government made clear in its Directions Statement that the symbolic and
mythological value Tasmanians have attached to the Hydro had to be
sacrificed in the name of economic common-sense:
Energy policy has been a critical part of the development of Tasmania.
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__ Which is a bit like the shot as basic unit in Christian Metz'
semiotics and its distance from the sign which is supposed to be empty
in it essence and only semantic when places in a syntactic line.
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__ The subject in his narrative is pushed outwards from the personal
vignette that begins the piece to focalise an organisational chronicle
that discretely discloses the triumphalism that authors of the
competing environmentalist history traditionally associate with the
Commission.
__
__ As a collectivity it enacts, in different ways and at different
cultural locations, the Foucauldian axiom that "to be modern is not to
accept oneself as one is in the flux of the passing moments; but to
take oneself as the object of a complex and difficult elaboration.
__
__ The proposition that societal modernity, once activated, moves
inexorably toward establishing a certain type of mental outlook and a
certain type of institutional order irrespective of the culture and
politics of a given place is simply not true.
__
__
The internal connection that is thus severed must, it seems to follow,
be replaced by an external one linking modernity with all the minor
places where its language is spoken through patois and creole,
vernacular and slang.
__
__ When jobs growth exceeds the national average the champagne corks
start popping.
__
__ It tells us that in order to understand the nature of anything in
this world we must see it as a historically developing entity, that is
first as an individual and unique whole- as some kind of unity at least
in potentia - and second as something that develops over time.
__
__ Where Rundle assumed that individuals would prefer quantifiable
increases in education and health spending, Bacon realized that the
Hydro was more than just a potential source of income.
__
__ Offering a more integrated vision of economic commonsense and state
ideology, the Bacon opposition swept to power in a landslide.
__
__ Political modernity is finally an impossible dream that only appears
to find its realisation in a reified Europe that is, on closer
examination, just a "figure of imagination".
__
__ Townsley's Tasmania: Microcosm of the Federation or Vassal State,
1945-1983, former hydro-electricity commissioner Allan Knight presents
a potted history of the organisation he headed up from 1946 to 1977.
__
__ Is Western modernity a singular entity that can be written about in
a variety of ways, or is it in fact constituted in the telling of these
modern meta-stories? When modernity is understood as something that
"has travelled from the West to the rest of the world not only in terms
of cultural forms, social practices and institutional arrangements, but
also as a form of discourse that interrogates the present", a tacit
assumption is made that some other ensemble of culture, society and
self-understanding is waiting to receive the influence.
__
__ The external connections that link a modernity that has become
alienated from its European origins, and indeed from its European
history, with the loci of its regional adaptation sets the scene for
the identification of fragments of the modern in an inexhaustible well
of empirical data and closes off the possibility of prioritising or
privileging the Europeanness of modernity.
__
__ In other words, Rundle's position endorsed the model of the subject
advanced by rational choice theory.
__ __ the sun is loud it cuts my skin.
__
Jargonator
that summer rain is going now.
__ Could the latent critical force of psycho-analysis not be
recuperated and summoned once again to do battle with the diabolical
foe of economic
rationality? It is the purpose of what follows to test this hypothesis.
__ The lesson of the
primal scene merely problematises its 'reality', thereby opening it up
to more insightful and
psychologically revealing readings as well as making possible a more
general critique of the
positivistic and scientific status of economics as a discipline.
__ i do not wish to leave the sea.
__ a mirror or a semibreve rest.
__ he sees it all.
__
But the metaphor of the hammer should not be misunderstood.
__ i was canyon deep.
__
Finches and Friends
when you left to go i didn't know Mr and Mrs white floors, melbourne
furniture, of the offhand variety, together, once a month or so when we
can
find the time.
__ you have it too and give it up.
__ i ventured out without my son.
__ i've been wary, over-steering hard in
shows of strength.
__ he knows it best.
__ my muscles slack beneath the foam.
__
the justice effects or the claim of the party.
__
out by the lake, out in the boat, little brother did the deed.
__
The textual strategy that Freud employs to deliver this vital
information to his readers though
does not immediately square with the significance that he places on the
matter at hand.
__ the whole time you were there.
__ get some more.
__ can you just wave your hand? the state comes back.
__ -
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
The note of interrogation which serves as the precondition for this
essay resonates out from
around a single question: What might we stand to gain from bringing the
hermeneutic
apparatus of psycho-analysis to the logic of economics? The passage
reproduced above
gives us a starting point from which to begin this foray, a clue, that
is in essence,
Nietzschean.
__ i sketched in tallow parlour light the charts for a drowned world or
a lost continent.
__ cartesia.
__ your purse is bulging till it breaks and coins cascade, a games
machine, in rain drop patters on the roof.
__ sooty caverns, trenches, beds.
__
what childish urge demands the sea? what islands are not capped with
flags or prison camps? what chance a greater civilisation? this longing
is a form
New Nation
the tasmanian project won't ever be finished, i suppose.
__ Yet, neoclassical economic logic continues to exercise an almost
mesmerising control over public
policy makers, many public and university intellectuals as well as
significant proportions of the
'political classes' of major O.
__ you're confused but do not need to, plant a hedge, i bet you knew,
your family knew, i arrived
and bent back on my hinge.
__ the winner will lose and the loser will win.
__
Despite these very great differences, I believe that a certain
analogical similarity can be
detected in the structure of these two things.
__ to me, to know myself is good enough or better.
__ Freud's model of the psyche is a generalised
topography of the human self, and some critics have suggested that it
may well only apply to
the early twentieth century Viennese bourgeoisie .
__ Freud's generalised topography of the human
subject has long since ceased to be held up as a 'true' description of
the way the psyche
functions, and, in my opinion, its application to literary theory, to
cultural criticism in general,
shows that it has instead become a kind of interpretive meta-narrative,
a code-breaking
device and hermeneutical technology.
__
Hi-Fidelity Water Marks
and now i am ensnared.
__
138 the toes press in.
__ leave me here with no concern in nylon suburbs bouncing deep in
crumbling valleys lunar modules, rapid transit systems, collecting
samples.
__ It is this hermeneutical apparatus that I believe has the power to
open up new
ways of thinking about almost any kind of conceptual system.
__ i'm saturnine and ringed by moods i wish that fizzing, frisson, heat
of buzzing light, that brighter star of distant dark would travel back
to shine on better days than these.
__ i'm washed by currents, looking out for light relief in thinning
cloud, the water's lifting mood.
__ we do not bear.
__ the roband whip of lifetime blinds and rum.
__ i keep my distance, perhaps i circle.
__ so much too loose and now all here, now at the wedding, the wheel in
just one hand, the soggy bag, the rays, the waves black round store of
bleary heat.
__ i will surface and go ashore.
__ This
Hayekian blueprint for world apprehension which has served, variously,
as the grounds for the
neo-classical and econometric hijacking of political economy and the
source of philosophical
legitimacy for the previously mentioned political movements acts at the
present moment in
coalition with even more powerful juggernauts hell bent on implementing
the latest and most
devastating stages of globalisation.
__ i lunge for when it comes, it comes as rain.
__ oberamagau_plangewell those folks who painted the little house red,
with the chinese wall.
__ i borrowed that, "you said again", i will not take or take again.
__ i dive nonetheless.
__ the race was fast like a planet of birds.
__ When
considered as an object of critique or interpretation, the psyche of
the Wolf-Man and by
extension, that of the Freudian subject more generally constitutes an
entire system which, not
unlike the Saussurian langue, is held together by a set of internal
regulative principles.
__ for heaven knows i was actually doing quite well.
__ thrown a drift we place, the beach the royal swam p.
__ i pinch the wind.
__ The rest
had been added by the inquisitive child's subsequent wish, based on his
experience with the dogs, to
witness his parents too in their love making.
__ Bad with girls.
__ when we move from room to room in our lovely wooden house, i hear
the full mirage.
__ For once to
pose questions here with a hammer and perhaps to receive for answer
that famous hollow sound which
speaks of inflated bowels-what a delight for one who has ears behind
his ears-for an old psychologist
like me, in presence of whom precisely that which would like to stay
silent has to become audible.
__ i made this method once and made my name, i was betrayed.
__ truthfulness.
__ To this end, I wish to
suggest that there are two principal ways in which the framing question
of this essay might be
considered, that there are, to put it more figuratively, two grounds on
which the siren call of
metaphor might be invoked.
__ Despite the insistence of
many of his Anglo-American critics, Nietzsche's was not a destructive,
nor even a nihilistic
philosophy.
__ sing then osculate.
__ The first derives from what can be read as the shared content of
the two events, that is, the centrality of the castration complex to
the two primal scenes.
__ The next section of
this essay will fill out this contention by illustrating the two
principle dimensions along which a
risky analogy like this might be made.
__ (private language, justice waits)of deus ex, or sense alone we know
the world and sense the world is local still, we know our street for
good.
__ the bellowing slapped out guff.
__ i didn't say i'd studied that image of the two of you together.
__ you looked a chief, i see it there the mark of fist upon your soul.
__ Certainly it is still reserved a privileged place amongst
the discursive systems which attempt to make sense of subjectivity, but
it has also been deterritorialised, to use Deleuze's phrase, and
applied to all manner of things that Freud would
not originally have anticipated.
__ i screech.
__ the bold and firm, the moody birds.
__ the streams of cash.
__ By bringing into
conversation two epistemologies which might normally be expected to
speak in very different tongues, I hope to shed a new light on economic
logic and its discursive manifestations which
if all goes well, will bring into question economics' positivistic
basis, its pretensions to
scientific status and with these, its grounds for legitimation.
__ tied his tongue to the spinning wheel and gave it all he had.
__
How, we might ask initially, could two such patently heterogenous
events or collection of events like the Great Depression and the primal
scene be linked together, and what might we
stand to gain from making such a conjunction? The second part of this
question I have
already addressed above, but the first requires immediate
consideration.
__
he yowls like cat, a barricade squawk.
__ Following in an unintended way from
Nietszche's invocation to philosophise with a hammer, Freud's
conceptualisation of the
unconscious set in train an intellectual concatenation whose
reverberations can still be heard
today, even by those of us who, unlike the philologist from Basel, do
not possess ears behind
our ears.
__
allowed to rest and drift.
__ It harmonises with our assumptions that it was a hot summers day, if
we suppose
that his parents had retired, half undressed, for an afternoon siesta.
__ found no treasure.
__ It gradually became possible to find satisfactory
answers to all the questions that arose in connection with this scene;
for in the course of the treatment
the first dream returned in innumerable variations and new editions, in
connection with which the
analysis produced the information that was required.
__ the blues were much too blue.
__ the ferns sagoon.
__ the volumed news of pregnant friends.
__ i trap parole.
__ i went alone to seek the moon.
__
we cannot think, nor move, like thumb reliefs on cardboard card.
__ the moss was damp.
__ i wish i could untract this strain.
__ berate and warrant distant roof of the world.
__ you're just the kind of folks we need down here to raise the bar and
bring the future in like a baited cray pot, fresh from heaving,
southern seas.
__
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appearance as reality.
__ If the prevailing wisdom were true, though, such neglect made sense:
why
study a phenomenon that no longer existed? (Wolfson 1993, 3)
If it is not already apparent, the crux of this essay is the contention
that the most momentous
economic catastrophe of all time, the Great Depression of 1929-39, acts
within neo-classical
economic logic or rationality or consciousness as a kind of primal
scene.
__ so rich and proud.
__ and caritas is not enough, to bind us from the cold of dread.
__ Neoclassical economic logic, on the other hand, is an
epistemological system designed to
measure, monitor, and most significantly, manipulate the ways that
goods and services are
exchanged within and between communities.
__ danish king of relatiz, the broken drink.
__ i felt deep down that i had trampled on something hallowed, even if
my intentions were innocent (selfishness but don't trust me for stephen
green is not man i've ever seen.
__ free again, i cupped my ear to empty shells of autochthonous beach.
__ is tall and still and strong; commands the heights from distant
post.
__ some are overdone by garish combinations or monochrome endlessness.
__ but let's face it, you picked me up.
__ Nearly an entire generation of economists was trained without ever
studying the origins and
causes of financial crises.
__
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we shared the same sharp flat, at an interval to be sure, but looking
down to the south and the east, that apartment gave bulk to our town
and i didn't think of you as i fell towards illness.
__ In The History of
an Infantile Neurosis, Freud outlines the case history of the Russian
nobleman Sergei
Pankieff, centring his discussion around the discovery and
interpretation of the analysand's observation of the primal scene as an
infant.
__ so round and profane.
__ to be composed in fugue or form, the never knowing where you'll
wake.
__ i break and hold firm.
__ lose their strengths.
__ On first gloss, this appears an odd
conjunction.
__ and shrug it off.
__
the rippled ute.
__ you smote the crap from bullseye's cave and round the heads to lap
the drain.
__ easy price, strong adjustments, at the source.
__ he knows it firm and cannot say, but it is what and always is.
__
i am man when he has gone from knotted in search of depth pearly,
unfarmed, mad, thriving, synchronised.
__ It has in the past, and will in the future, continue to be
separated out from the set of 'things' which enables the
psycho-analytic interpretation to be
conducted.
__ 89
when you returned, i told you what i'd done; the cake, the cds, the
books.
__ i have spoken without my armour to nobody in years.
__ with words you had a distant match, so much more i didn't catch.
__ or else it moves like a dangling, falling, hopeless calm.
__ burnt, i felt all of this
operating at an international level and sleeping at night.
__ inter alia the new born son.
__ i will not snap the jersey cap.
__ love is a relationship independent of the terms.
__ 15 maxims.
__ the channels run it in.
__ the teatro.
__ to make your name or have it read.
__ Lastly he interrupted his parent's
intercourse in a manner which will be discussed later.
__ you found my balance, yielding memories from a mess of curling
slips.
__ the limits of talent.
__
The argument that the primal scene and the Great Depression are
analogous events by virtue
of a shared content develops quite specifically out of the first of
these texts.
__ you proceed at distance, a bowery bird.
__ i wed your knee-cap, parenthetical introvert.
__ i feel the middle months approach.
__ without illness there is no fantasy cure.
__ time-worn swooping credit swaps.
__ the speed you lack.
__ These scenes of observing parental intercourse, of being
seduced in childhood, and of being threatened with castration are
unquestionably an inherited
endowment, a phylogenetic heritage, but they may just as easily be
acquired by personal experience.
__ peeling overboard, forensic.
__ always there and never there.
__
galleon sun.
__ the crimson burl or eventide.
__ inside i thought of dubai heat, the cylinder high toward the earth.
__ the devil's wince.
__ pinning greenbacks to her dress.
__ trained and cocked, a fulgent bim.
__ In the
case of the Wolf-Man this is a fear of real castration, in the case of
the Neo-classical
economists who have theorised the Great Depression it is the fear of a
figural one.
__ E.
__ miles back from sun.
__
116 of course i speak of what i do as much as what i do it in, i'm
couched, one might say, in a specialist tongue.
__ What, to bring us back to the
focus of this paper, might happen if we were to look at economic logic
or even the history of
economics through psycho-analytic eyes? Could we not sound out some
idols?
Drawing the Vital Analogy: The Primal Scene and the Great Depression
What sprang into activity that night out of the chaos of the dreamer's
unconscious memory-traces was
the picture of copulation between his parents, copulation in
circumstances which were not entirely
usual and were especially favourable for observation.
__ (Freud 199)
During the period immediately following World War Two, when financial
crises seemed to have
disappeared forever from the economic scene, mention of them also
disappeared from the economics
literature.
__ it caught my eye at the corner and didn't let go.
__ hard to say or take it in.
__ i worked as a painter a singer and a policy wonk.
__ When he woke up he witnessed a
coitus a tergo, three times repeated; he was able to see his mother's
genitals as well as his father's
organ; and he understood this process as well as its significance.
__ a lifetime i've been left alone.
__ truncated code violation.
__
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isn't it all because of that savings glut you're always talking about?"
the sandals were luminescent pink or orange, hot, written by my city.
__ e___ lives there now.
__
Mykonos Flake Salt and Vinegar
there comes a time when you just are, when everything that has been and
gone conditions the future and proves it.
__ the chain of being is so straight up.
__ i was pinned and submitted pale, wind thin, flat like a krypton
jail, upbeat and wistful, leaning into the future, holding the place,
throwing stems in the breeze, an orientation or an arrow, like superman
in youth parting from golden fields.
__ .
__ the clear blue gong.
__ the poling gout.
__ and this is not a bone to pick or even more a starting point.
__ Likewise,
no one is, a la David Irving, about to dispute the empirical reality of
the events which have
since come to be included under the heading of the Great Depression.
__ we walked slowly down crooked streets.
__ make plans, with owls.
__ pareto equaliser domino concubine.
__ In other words, the original object of Freudian interpretation,
the unconscious, has come to occupy not a necessary but a contingent
position at the center
of the psychoanalytic enterprise.
__ Freud's meta-psychological topography of the human subject was drawn
inductively from his treatment of particular cases, his grounding in
traditional psychology and
medicine, his theories of the significance of myth and culture among
many other things.
__ but they hold us.
__ The first of these is the case study
of the Wolf-Man, 'From the History of an infantile neurosis'.
__ you don't, not directly.
__ i worked as a dancer.
__ On this reading, the discovery of the unconscious, the principal
enabling
achievement of psycho-analysis should be thought first and foremost as
the sounding out of a
false idol; the self-same one that fills the hollow center of Slavoj
Zizek's latest work, The
Ticklish Subject.
__ the scrambling man is not a thought or even more a joint or bore.
__ i wish this coughing, choking fun would run its course and leave me
high and dry.
__ i smoke a poof and fling him ash.
__ i hit rock bottom.
__ In
fact it is, ostensibly at least, quite obfuscatory.
__
Which brings us, in a round about kind of way to economics, or more
precisely, to neoclassical economics and the logical and discursive
system in which it has found expression.
__ " but you never go and if you did the whole time you were there it
would just be tasmania, tasmania, tasmania.
__ it could not be summarised and could not be lived well in any way
other than by thinking more about other people's lives who lived nearby
or appeared in stories.
__ i burn all semblance first to eastman junk bonds, polar ridges,
steroid poses, married vice as if love was a condition of thought,
expressible in a proposition, and not a function of history or an order
of conduct; bickering, correcting, riddled laughter.
__
The second ground for the comparison centers on the truth-status or
conditions of facticity of
the two sets of events.
__
__
.
__ what kind of task? pouring poison in a king's ear.
__ In combination with compromised and acquiescent
governmental institutions at every legislative level, these megaliths
continue to entangle
greater and greater regions of our planet in the sticky web of
capitalist economism.
__ now or soon or after gravox lunch.
__ We say if only i could ever go, to that strange star, the
underworld, if only i could make my peace with insect rain and
confidence.
__ such are the juridical poetics of undecidability restaged in the
psychoanalytic frame.
__ the bearing plant.
__ the burnished spade was standing clean
maybe one day we will all be together on time, in the same time.
__ i imagine they would pity me.
__ attentive labour at the screen and doubt, in any case, that
scientists can predict any of this in a precise or value-free way.
__ they would think of my success as failure, eccentricity, wasted
years.
__ surely you know that medieval smell, the single-fronted, empty,
brasseries specialising in crepes, red tablecloths, vines on the
mullion.
__ but they are wild at heart.
__
Nifty Christmas Fuselage
the players will meet again, in other words, on new turf somewhere
else, next year.
__ a man of love and all of it.
__ they are objects to be sorted not rules to be obeyed.
__ everybody has them in dampened tones, paler hues.
__ forever young, you want to say
get the chickens in or else my host, the king, the silent mr moon.
__
Primal Scene 1: The Wolf-Man's Dream
Those readers familiar with Freud's work will be well aware that the
concept of the primal
scene is developed for the main part in only two key texts.
__ i burl and wince.
__ we ate that night on lily leaves.
__ Rather than beginning with a statement of what
he regards as the real conditions of the Wolf-Man's apprehension of the
primal scene, Freud
leads us on a kind of a wild goose chase, maintaining first a version
of events that he then
comes to rescind and replace later on.
__ where would i lose myself? in what dimension could i come unstuck
enough to see myself go?a variation on what's done here.
__ shots as long as the dawn.
__ i try to keep them occupied.
__
The Butler's Escape
i made this craft by rectifying errors of design, the water's stored in
old, red tanks, terracotta, florid ground.
__ , my wife and my children and my memories
of you.
__ price levels moved within a narrow band.
__
The Noble Lie Inside The Tomb
banging.
__
117
slowly but surely, i was losing touch; the days wore through and sapped
my zap.
__ back in 20th century city.
__
119
it's all a joke but even so, there's nothing free about these claims.
__ i raid his chest and beat him down with kraut (cymbals).
__ reality as the shimmering ark of truth.
__
and very thin inside my head
i have no doubt that human beings have abreacted childhood tears.
__ the burning door (a good poem, sweaty gator, still not ripe for
central sound.
__
The Guts of a Beggar
it doesn't do for learning much, this mechanics of the dark.
__ never being able to say what you thought or what seemed wise as
thoughts, made words on the screen.
__ capped and pillioned, pillory tor.
__ i speak to you as outboard kin who traded in the whole of us for
angling from the land mass shelf at human truth, a fool's crusade for
essence, power, sex and blood the bottom doesn't shoulder much, it
can't its spirit broke, it cannot shield or take a punch, i know but am
not of it, yet i could face up to riddled hope, and shoulder loss.
__ but, pausing over a cigarette or else talking to people who tell
people what to do.
__ I bound myself in craft.
__ the language of dendrites and axons and receptors is friendly and
bright.
__ you put the hard word on a stubborn little gubbin.
__ subculture.
__ through the briny, squabbling hermitage.
__ he sees not form nor temporal change in and of the time as now.
__ your hand is an empty cup or a syllogism.
__ The second is the more abstract
theoretical adumbrations of the Introductory Lectures on
Psycho-Analysis wherein the notion
of the primal scene is further explicated and then positioned within
the meta-psychology more
generally.
__ the passage of the sun was independent; variable.
__ The apparently innocent and sensible inquiries into the causes and
effects of the economic catastrophe of that period become, in this
context, harrowing quests
into the repressed regions of the discipline's unconscious-quests
which, in the final analysis
have only one single ever-so-vital goal: to ensure that the repressed
never, ever returns, that
the free market remains triumphant and that laissez fare economism
retains its position
astride the bull of capitalist logic.
__ bulging purse.
__ 'it will not rain today', you say.
__ novels clasped in hot mix hands, words carved truth in cattle yards,
the dusty verse of centaur's lung.
__ still not ripe for full colours.
__ my swash was sure i would see it finally as something complete with
title credits and special effects.
__ , these skins we wear.
__ the discontinued email series.
__ Likewise, Freud's clinical reassessment of the enlightenment subject
was never
envisioned as an act of negative critique.
__ it all comes true, the rivulet is fast and wide.
__ org.
__ he eats with sweets or else of ham, the scrambling man is in the
walls.
__ i built my sub with mirrored walls and no way out.
__ if annihilation does occur it will be a modulated personalisation of
mutually assured destruction_complete and absolute.
__ in trim and daughter.
__ crisp clean margins
jumbo towels penguins drying at their side.
__ he knows it best.
__ contingent honeymoon when all the lithuanians chip in.
__ you will split in two and these traces of awkwardness will
disappear.
__ crowned unholy, overseen by boards and public space.
__ the strangling wheel.
__ i'll teach again.
__ first i sorted through your music, bach to arvo part and then i went
upstairs and read my manuscript.
__ today, one boy will float above and ask for proof that he is now.
__ On this first account, the Wolf-Man's primal scene
occurred around the age of one and a half:
He had been sleeping in his cot, then, in his parents bedroom, and woke
up, perhaps because of his
rising fever (he had malaria) in the afternoon, possibly at five o
clock, the hour which was later marked
out by depression.
__ i have my own tricks too, but i also have my illness.
__ i lip the bottom lips the rung.
__ In exorcising this phantasm, in
creating a space for an understanding of the way that irrational
processes cut right to the
heart of human subjectivity, Freud carved out a toehold for radical
critique in an otherwise
sheer and intransigent epistemological fortress.
__ it isn't bad, i suppose, but beside any point that i can see now.
__ i feel as though by now i know around me that which makes me think
shrink it to a hand held ball.
__ so is the scrambling man.
__ I am speaking of course of the cartesian self, the self-identical
cogito, the
idol of rationality and reason as the master of its own house.
__ tyres caught on fire traps.
__
i will write this restoration in the language of the land;
scholar_postcolonial_eurydice embargo till prejudice.
__
my training is complete, he said.
__ (118)
As Freud finally makes clear towards the end of the case study, these
questions about the
veracity of the observation, whether it was a condensed amalgam of
extraneous experiences
on the Wolf-Man's part or whether he actually did witness the primal
scene, do not really
matter:
I should myself be glad to know whether the primal scene in my present
patients case was a phantasy
or a real experience; but, taking into other similar cases into
account, I must admit that the answer is
not in fact a matter of very great importance.
__ then clear, as they say, to start again.
__ i had been alone with.
__ i wake and feel the fell of light, my eyes, red mountain eyes.
__ That is, by suggesting that Freud's insights into the human psyche
might be applied to a
system of reified pseudo-scientific concepts which although constructed
by humans has long
survived with an acquired vitality of its own, I will be drawing an
analogy between economic
logic/discourse and the human qua Freudian subject.
__ i crush and outside.
__ there is no guarantee that i would lose myself in some other task.
__ the darkest prince, he glows in white and does it right, always
asking is my skiff askew or are my pants on low enough t make me tough.
__ D countries.
__ that something good might happen .
__ sandy reichhart potted succulents for the stoop an spoke with god
via the analogue, the yearbook was asynchronous or the ebay circuit.
__ looping slush.
__
Psychoanalysis and Economics: The Significance of the Primal Scene
Jesse Shipway, University of Melbourne
Another form of recovery, in certain cases even more suited to me, is
to sound out idols.
__ culmination, direct debit, anticruise, dolorum sandria.
__ you feel but cannot bring it back.
__ the friends i have or if i turn, potato green, the zipping stew.
__ i break like swaps.
__ the semi-conductor.
__ i do not intend to share my secrets now.
__ there is, however, no supervening force powerful or wise.
__ the kelp is succulent, my propeller is stuck.
__ birds the colour of blood p.
__ drink soft or with a friend, you show it too, the rum and tablet,
bending down you cop a look at his poor shoes.
__ canned by history.
__ they run to you and what to do? can you escape the coil of time? you
can and spend it every day as if a day was still a day and something
new.
__ it's just not going to happen out of nothing or suddenly anymore.
__
i break and toast i wilt.
__ i pause of winded sand.
__ giving us projects and plans and counting us all, reaching, reaching
for us all.
__ i woke up and stood by the highway thinking of los angeles.
__ he tries a song.
__ the bending man.
__ i was remote from myself and becoming imperceptible.
__ the scrimbling, scrambling, quiet, man is easy to ignore.
__ C.
__ six towers stood above the pines.
__ flint, sound and hollow.
__ i whispered my petitions in place of an abstract: "my plans are flat
like a plane not a plain and even more surprisingly, i have no audio
out.
__ The Wolf-Man had not in fact witnessed his parents in the act of
sexual congress more ferarum, but instead had displaced onto them this
particular bodily
configuration after observing the mating of dogs around the estate
where he had grown up:
It was really on a summer's afternoon while the child was suffering
from malaria, the parents were both
present, dressed in white, when the child woke up from his sleep, but
the scene was innocent.
__ it has to be the flow or the sequence or the way a thought responds
to a change in the shape of the trees or a sound uncontrolled.
__
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psychology, i will not credit.
__ a point on the bass strait compass if not quite a good australian.
__ angular, damp and burnt, like a falling fence or a galvanised tank
or a cratered city bright with sweat.
__ "what is that oblong, this snake?" you ask again, the vented pipe.
__ but skin is skewed, aslant, its angle gives us seasons.
__ truncated codfish.
__ progress but never know quite why.
__
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imagine others have this mood.
__ Given the
successful supplanting of laissez fare orthodoxy by Keynsian economics
after the disaster of
1929 is it not reasonable to suggest that the proponents of free market
economics, having
finally struggled back to a position of hegemonic control under the
sails of Hayek, Von Mises,
Milton Friedman and his Chicago school colleagues might find the
contemplation of the Great
Depression a chastening or even an unheimlich experience.
__
144
the turning sun.
__ the sticky heat was thick, my skin a rim of prickled sweat stephen
green is very rich he lives beside an ocean pool he chops up loans and
sells them off as charms to float a crumbling town the scrambling man.
__ When
coupled with the explosive growth in reach and influence of the world's
financial power elite,
the spread of the technocratic Weltanschauung held in common by these
various parties
seems to bring us closer and closer to the brink of the abyss beyond
which lies the dire state
of affairs described by Horkheimer and Adorno in the opening paragraph
of The Dialectic of
Enlightenment: the fully enlightened earth which radiates disaster
triumphant.
__ (98)
About twenty pages further into the case study Freud replaces this
version of events with a
second, more palatable one.
__ i breathe south leaves torn free.
__ we still do what we do without recourse to formal reason.
__ i turned around to see my wife, the faintest line, her hair in
curls.
__ the slowing roil of human waste.
__ armadillo shoes.
__ According to Freud, it is the Wolf-Man's
experience of this event or set of events which makes sense of the
infamous dream of the six
wolves in the tree which in turn holds the key to an understanding of
his childhood fear of
animals and by extension his general neurosis.
__ i look like bogart and smoke a fag.
__ you follow the hill, attempt, by folds of sheet and childish lock?
legitimation.
__ it's tempting to think that passion is private and only for us, that
we have some unique take on it, a confidential agreement or a secret
handshake.
__
But in order that it might hold up, some details need to be declared.
__ "but how does the imf respond to an oversupply of credit substrate
plane being nests and ideological.
__ good at maths.
__ you stand and sit and ask for things or tell the others 'couldn't
help but see all this as a feature in the making, casting it, funding
it; my eye as natural as a camera in artificial light.
__ he reads the post-war japanese novel and pens notes on congruences
between human rights discourse and structural inequality.
__ i hoped but did not think it so and yet i still have much to fear.
__ the soaring, jeering, stupid crowd.
__ he knows it best.
__ (you still have it there on your shelf, unfinished no doubt and i
don't blame you for that).
__ the bright forest birds hear the fakir's as if listening was work.
__ caprice and arbitrary rule are the prerogative of feeling, the way
oppressive feeling taxes your last dime and leaves your palette smudged
and dry from heavy, caustic air.
__ teacup, anticule, the blacks were never black enough.
__ young yet still and furrowed depth gores album tracks, so back and
forth, behind a horse.
__ lose their glow.
__ i know what i've done wrong and i don't need a philosopher to tell
me that words win prizes for unrelenting the turbine's mighty spin.
__ i went to a party, fell asleep on the couch.
__ always one rung short on the timpani deck.
__ it gives me pause, and cause to jeer the rocky shore.
__ his jeans are loose.
__ it sprays and you get rugs, scree shares, to change your socks, to
change the oil or fix an old machine.
__ This structural homology, I
believe, makes possible the kind of allegorical argument like the one I
am attempting here.
__ it was hot.
__ embassy
piano
frowning
staring gumnut
kissing
cigarette holder
danzig bow sprit.
__ less here than a ghost or a memory come with me on a flat, bright
day,
to a river, north of perth.
__
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of course i know it full as well i am not old and sirens quake in shock
and awful wreckage at the western half, the danceless rooms, the
prancing scold, the empty promise, claims of upwards life.
__ reduce it with your thumb and fore, a thumbnail sketch, a touch
screen tryst i can see i was wrong about that and selfish too.
__
the chef whose name was steven green was paid in cash and cooked with
coal.
__ at times i've thought i did.
__ and moods are not a meta-language or a discipline as such.
__ i sing and bounce a ball.
__ made by lists at school.
__ i asked this king, why he went, beneath the waves, to find himself
he said the others said with knives in hand you cannot teach without
being taught.
__ blurred or fetch again across the mood.
__ Where the Wolf-Man witnessing
his mothers 'wound' was disturbed by the realisation that his urge to
be sexually satisfied at
the hands of his father would also necessarily come at the cost of the
loss of his own
reproductive organs, the free-marketeers who revisit the Great
Depression are confronted
with the equally terrifying spectre of the failed diagnosis, of the
loss of disciplinary control, of
eroded credibility, of the withdrawal of predictive and interpretive
privilege, in short, of
theoretical impotence.
__
Hence the return to Freud.
__ the having been and always is.
__ i bow middled, unkempt.
__ mr green is smoke and chimes the kind of bloke who smokes for dimes
the kind of bloke you hear about in traveller's tales and broken dreams
the kind of squib who pokes about in engine bays for sparks and drums
who fills his nuts with local rum the limits of art.
__ friable substrate.
__ always splayed like a junkie on a burn out cupcake oriole
hinterland.
__ i did my own thinking.
__ fetch again, "you don't say," said the man a brother's sun and all
in all a feisty chap.
__ my sense of fun.
__ this cold, cold rain is human self, the joints and skin of willing
being or being as will, i cannot tell.
__
a winking pause will volume grief the room is full of sound.
__ they are formidable.
__ of gog mouthed, bent, scup, pearled, froth split.
__ for you the building is literal.
__ Which leads us, after a fashion, to a reading of the
discovery of the unconscious as a sublime act of creative destruction
on the part of the
inventor of psychoanalysis, an act perfectly in line with the less
commonly grasped dimension
of the Nietzschean critical imperative; to sound out idols with the
tuning fork of re-valuation.
__ in our stateness.
__ Economic rationality on the other hand is a
produced system of concepts and interpretive mechanisms.
__ and the stream of words inside my skull it was a river in my skull a
black stone split, a corruscade.
__ if ever it was yours at all.
__ i keep my memories locked inside.
__ i belched at the lake and woke the hounds.
__ without the lights, we'd worship god and call him
shephard's spark.
__ the urban panic.
__
carrot
bodkin
swarming armenian but i am happy enough when left alone.
__ Because of its pretensions to
scientific status, it poses as anonymous, universal, acultural and
mathematically legitimated,
even though as many powerful criticisms have shown, this is patently
not the case .
__ i placate and fight freely, slash freely.
__ you stand again.
__ .
__ i wish some king would drop a line to bring back things so gone
from me, you brother thief, my woman love, my laurel wreath.
__
What greater false idol presents itself to our 21st century eyes than
this monstrous reifying
system that, disguised as the technical recipe for guaranteeing a new
capitalist prosperity for
all, was smuggled into the institutional corridors of the civil society
with the invidious political
agendas of Thatcherism, Reaganomics and in this country, Economic
Rationalism.
__ plain sake for the stealth acre, or doubled up, a queasy tangent
sign; a 10oz, tape sneakere pumpkin and orioles bobcat pump mentioned,
parish widow.
__ you go out hunting.
__ We know that the actual character of the Wolf-Man's alleged
witnessing of the primal scene is shrouded in mystery but could the
Great Depression also
potentially be an imaginary event? How are its reality-effects
constituted by the economic
interpretations of it that have appeared in the intervening years? To
what extent does its
phobic quality, its medusa's stare hinder the attempts of those
economists who would seek to
determine its true character? How might we reconcile its immense and
actual social
repercussions with the chimerical quality of the graphs, flow charts,
and numerical data which
necessarily sit at the center of its neo-classical economic
invocations? Could its exclusion be
theorised as a crucial moment in the development of an economic
imaginary?
Both of the these dimensions rely for their coherence on a structural
commonality.
__ the desert air is cool and clear and the moon is cut like a sword.
__ but wouldn't it be nice if we could get the whole team together for
one sweet half-time victory shot.
__
with this twilight dark, i sat and smoked you sat opposed and did not
speak.
__
Similarly, the totality of economic discourse, inaccessible though it
may be in such a modality,
is by virtue of being the accumulation of a vast number of individual
acts of enunciation or
instances of parole, also a complete system, paradigm or order.
__
As is probably already apparent, this essay will rely for its
rhetorical effect on an allegorical
logic.
__ rational kingdom.
__ hard to put and hold it firm.
__ i burled it, through the grip, the surf is what i get.
__ his voice is strong.
__ or to the laggard's cove we turn as mist or else as summer rain, we
groan, we pout and strain.
__ and i have seen the glowing tips of dragon's tails.
__ you say, "i will go abroad soon.
__ my feeding tube has let me dream.
__ i look at this wide almost sea and fill my pots with brawn.
__
walking again across the road sans a job
placed just here.
__
(260)
If the question as to whether or not the Wolf-Man really witnessed his
parents in the act of
coitus more ferarum is besides the point, what matters is that somehow,
via the coming
together of various different psychical forces, some conscious, some
unconscious, some the
products of condensation others of displacement, the mental image or
cognitive amalgam
whose content was the two adults caught in the act of sexual congress
did acquire the
condition or quality of truthfulness, real felt memory and recalled
lived experience.
__ you so slick, you twist armacord edgeways and intermit borrowed
stapled, slapped out loan fund instrument contract faroe.
__ i found my peace in Banquo's arms and never once enclosed a cheque.
__ blinking time out the back of your head.
__ shimmering riffs.
__
blanket rations because, and this i think is the indispensible point,
the burrow is wet to the core, soaked and thin, soaked and thin, sucked
and drenched.
__ the cooler filled with foreign beers.
__ A subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, it came as no
surprise that The Mercury supported the plan:
Mr Howard [the Prime Minister] has made clear that this offer fits in
with the spirit of the Nixon Report.
__
__ At the heart of this dissatisfaction was the theoretical modeling of
human behaviour and motivation.
__
__ Fortunately Tasmanians are a hardy breed.
__
__ In that thinking, says Dipesh Chakrabarty, we inevitably return to a
European intellectual tradition whose genealogy ties together
con-sanguine concepts including
citizenship, the state, civil society, public sphere, human rights,
equality before the law, the individual, distinctions between public
and private, the idea of the subject, democracy, popular sovereignty,
social justice, scientific rationality and so on.
__
__ "
Agnes Heller takes a different tack to Giddens and Mommsen in her own
commentary on Weber's work in A Theory of Modernity, drawing out the
fragments produced by the splitting of the social whole into competing
value-spheres and making the suggestion that these spheres become
configured in a hierarchy of prominence in line with their capacity to
accommodate instrumental rationalisation.
__
__ The twin ontologies of the individual and the social proposed by
rational choice theory have thus translated into specific
transformations in the value-rational ends pursued by state entities.
__ __ Beneath the smooth, scientistic surface of economics lies a
strata which might
be more properly theorised as unconscious or in the Lacanian
vocabulary, as 'real'.
__ The Specters of Marx: the State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning
and the New International.
__
__
__ But Richard Ford says that we connect too much.
__ Ed.
__ New York: Norton, 1977.
__
__
__ 138, penguin, 1996, harmondsworth, Middlesex, england
Discussions about hierarchy can take us to situations in which
individuals express an outrage about certain other people or groups who
use special powers and/or advantages to secure and maintain a position
at or near the top of the hierarchy.
__ To this
end, I wish to contend that the economic real is a repressed ideational
field that breaks
through the economic imaginary whenever it is required to accommodate
traumatic events
like financial crises.
__
__
__
How can Proust be used as a resource for philosophy scholarship? For
philosophy researchers, there is much that can be gleaned from a study
that places at the very centre of the novel descriptions of the home
and the experiences which arise from encounters with objects and
people.
__ J.
__
__
__ Yet the meaning we derive from an object can never be complete.
__ Armworth, New York: M.
__
Conclusion: Tallying up the Bottom Line
This dialectical reading of the Great Depression has attempted to
problematise the scientific
status of economics, or in the Nietzschean sense in which I began this
essay, has attempted
to sound out the idol of economic scientism.
__ New York: W.
__
__
__ The thinking human, and there is surely no other kind living outside
of structuralist ideology, is so centred inside their own meaning
systems that are very simple cybernetic loops connecting inside and
outside, slef and other, matter and mind.
__ S and the world on
October 18th 1929.
__ New York: Continuum, 1977.
__
__ Colonial modernities proper attain their conceptual clarity through
a simple binary that opposes the modernising imperialist with the
non-modern indigene.
__
Garnaut, Ross and Ross Mcleod (eds).
__
__
__ (1991) 'The Berlin key or how to do things with words' in P.
__
__
__
I bring to this exercise a profound deafness to dominant or
sub-dominant (powerfully institutionalised) discourse, tendencies,
terms of art and so on that abide in this or any other established,
rationalised, jurisdictional research paradigm.
__ .
__
__
__ To quote Hegel is thought to be good.
__ purge the rottenness out of the system'-nothing like the Great
Depression can ever
happen again.
__
The writers who adopt the term "Final Solution" to describe the
atrocities committed against the Tasmanian Aborigines align themselves,
inadvertently or not, with the loose affiliation of scholars who argue
against the singularity of the Holocaust.
__
__
__ Sometimes I feel as if T.
__ Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1973.
__
__
__ It can also have some relationship to the idea of equality before
the law and to human rights discourse and enforcement - we are all
equally entitled to free speech, to freedom of religion and so on.
__ This economic imaginary, constitutes itself through the exclusion of
unconscious, repressed and symptomatic matter of which the Great
Depression is the most
traumatic example.
__ Certainly his use of the two fateful words is the only instance of a
novelic inscription that speaks to the literary corpus of Aboriginal
Tasmania.
__
__
__
I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
Too far in years to be a pupil now;
What is thy sentence then but speechless death,
Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath? (Richard II, 1.
__ (294)
I am not about to defend the Hoover administration here, but it is
impossible to resist a
reading of this remark as yet more evidence for the argument that
economic interpretations of
the Great Depression are massively overdetermined in the psychoanalytic
and Althuserian
sense.
__
__
____ Wolfgang Mommsen provides a useful précis of the differences
between these two forms of reason:
By 'formal' rationality is meant the strategy of adapting one's own
conduct of life to the pre-determined purposes of the kind that the
capitalist system has imposed on modern man.
__ Schematised, such a history might include the following occurrences.
__
__
__ Ayer has inspired me; in particular 'Language truth and logic' which
I still view as a model to aim for; in terms of its precision and
lucidity.
__
__
__ What too should we make of Wittgensteins argument that world
consists of everything that is the case.
__ Trans.
__ __
__
__
__
__ Those new maladies of the collective soul: relative poverty,
unemployment, family breakdown, lifestyle diseases, substance abuse,
and the generalised anomie of consumer capitalism remain entrenched.
__
__
__
no one else will navigate this scientific way.
__
__
__ i hear his voice, that pussy eidolon.
__
__ Like a "minor literature", a minor place has both political and
subversive potential: "Create the opposite dream: know how to create a
becoming-minor.
__
__
__ i take him down with iris heat.
__
__
__
we grip at changing tides, with mitts, so taut,
they clench our wrists.
__
__
__
__ 23-6; Kay Daniels and Mary Murnane, letter, The National Times, (29
July 1978), p.
__
__
__ .
__
__
__
__
__ you're never welcome on the ice.
__
__
__
__
__
as we drove back from launceston, hobart extended its arms toward us.
__
__
__
they might follow their grandmothers
into the service.
__
__
__
__
__ remember when we imagined it empty of people, the buildings rotting
and rusting away.
__
__
__ after the war, america had all the factories.
__
__
__ he looks as me.
__
__
__
__
__ The supersession of nomenclature foreshadowed a supersession of
culture.
__
__
__
__
__ no wonder.
__
__
__
Hospital
68
the brown the jagged girl in the smoking yard, patients whispered "she
jumped off
the tent and into the fountain, alabaster queen of sleep.
__
__
__
__
__ i return to learn again.
__
__
__ I am no happy worker in the profit producing, research unitised,
establishment institution that crowns our one tree hill.
__
__ , Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction: The Struggle for
Modernity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995); Victoria Best and
Peter Collier, eds.
__
__
__
57
to the yank i turned and thumbed
my ride.
__
__
__
Yet, the ways we understand material objects in the home has been
subject to scrutiny by some influential scholars.
__
__
__ i think she was nervous at the start of this year because she wanted
to win again.
__
__
__
__
__ wouldn't it be like someone in your family dying in fits and starts,
finally fading completely away.
__
__
__
5
who is the booted turd who shuts
my gate?
many earth it - middle class - in a crawling
spat
governed by
organic chicken.
__
__
__ Rovisco (eds), Cosmopolitanism in Practice, Ashgate, Farnham, p.
__
__
__
__
__ just where exactly did they fit on the social ladder.
__
__
__ .
__
__
__
__
__ The misanthropic South West wilderness sprawls across a full third
of the state.
__
__
__ On the far side of "The Mountain" is the South West wilderness, and
to its north, the lunar undulations of the Midlands, made threadbare by
eucalyptus die-back, concertina their way back up toward Launceston,
the island's second city.
__
__
__ In a different language it might even be called universal.
__
__ Ultimately, however, I believe it is as an instance of Cultural
Studies that this book has its life.
__
__
__ These attributes are like the noumenon itself, finally inaccessible
to anyone who seeks to find them.
__
__
__
__
__ and still it seems we look back in or strut our stuff or hate in
silence.
__
__ ", p.
__
__
__ The cessation of transportation in 1853 reduced the flows of British
scrip and, in combination with emigration to the Victorian goldfields,
economic hardship acquired the fixity of a popular prejudice.
__
__
__
__
__ It describes an archipelago covering some sixty eight thousand
square kilometres, a triangular landmass flanked by a flotilla of
out-rigger islands
.
__
__
__ i know you love her too.
__
__
__ On the western side, meanwhile, the vast expanse of Southern Ocean
inserted between the island's coast and southern Africa, reminds us
that the presence of the latter is more an optimistic paean to the
remnants of a unified cartographic imagination than any kind of
tangible truth.
__
__
__ always try to have your way.
__
__
__ Lurking behind our own success (desperation) and our self-satisfied
little homilies about 'picking the market' is the knowledge that
billons of people in the world, and a significant number within our own
rich societies go without adequate, affordable philosophy or even
without philosophy at all.
__
__
__ I wish to contend here that this duality can be imported into a
spatial imaginary that codes cities - especially large cities with
dense and numerous trade links to other parts of the world - as
cosmopolitan, while assigning the status of provinciality, homogeneity
or backwardness to the countryside and smaller regional cities and
towns.
__
__ , Powerful Bodies: Performance in French Cultural Studies (Bern:
Peter Lang, 1999); Barry Jordan and Rikki Morgan, eds.
__
__
__ it was a policy problem and a failure of imagination.
__
__
__
__ In the immediate setting, the motivation for such speculations turns
around the question of the utility of sub-national Cultural Studies.
__
__
__ Drive seems to be the wrong word for what carries us forward because
things that drive almost always drive some other thing - like a woman
in a car or a depth and breadth of social inequality so profoundly
invisible that it drives anyone with a Christian heart quite mad
indeed.
__
__
__
__
__ perhaps there was a culture of development.
__
__ , Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader (Chicago: University of
Illinois Press, 1996); Laura Benedetti, Julia Hairston and Sylvia Ross,
eds.
__
__
__ Eventually, a stirring of French interest in the region together
with growing pressures on prison resources in England prompted British
authorities to establish a permanent penal "settlement".
__
__
__ And what has happened here, in this off-shore island, off the shore
of an off-shore continent? First terra firma itself was conditioned
with ice age and deluge.
__
__
__
the wood and iron and concrete out along the brooker.
__
__
__
__ Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark, eds.
__
__
__
To continue the argument, a 'liberal' dose of what Isaiah Berlin called
'positive freedom' seems to be required to generate and sustain the
cosmopolitan orientation.
__
__
__
__
__
.
__
__
__
__
__ " i longed to see what colours you'd settle on, which quotes you'd
re-deploy.
__
__ , Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies (London: Arnold, 2000).
__
__
__
__
__ the cafe where i bought those two coffees.
__
__
__ that's how to read it.
__
__
__
__
__ this coast is clear for me, with seaweed in my hair and limpets in
my beard.
__
__
__
__
__
he fears the ribs i've sucked down there.
__
__
__
__ Palawa, in turn, is the title that Tasmanian Aboriginals use to
describe themselves as a totality.
__
__
__
__ 1995.
__
__
__
__ Raymond Gaita, "Bringing Home Some Genocide Truths," The Australian,
(4 August 2003), p.
__
__
__
__
__ i watched documentaries about american factories and felt a strength
in all those me, those immigrant faces, crossing bridges, pooling
outside the gates, hard hats on, carrying their lunch.
__
__
__
__
__
if, when all is said and done, no clear winner is declared and no loser
skulks away to lick his wounds, the contest will be carried over, as
these contests often are, into an eternal future.
__
__
__ you follow the very idea of yourself.
__
__
__ The global regime of flexible accumulation with its slogans of
competitive advantage, intellectual capital and niche marketing seems
suddenly appealing to a newly emboldened Tasmania no longer content to
cultivate a culture of mediocrity behind tariff walls.
__
__
__
__
__ beauty stares at water truth it shone like saturn, cold and still.
__
__
__
__
__ for all to all is coming now with this_sweet wave, curling far out
on the wake.
__
__
__ the sinkhole blues.
__
__
__
hoping yet to be what i am
and for somebody to enjoy hearing about it.
__
__
__
The machinery of contemporary scientific empiricism reads Tasmania as a
docile body: as rock, water, soil and tree.
__
__
__
__ 45-7.
__
__
__
__ If the format and contents of recent Cultural Studies anthologies
are any indicator of the condition of the discipline they secure and
fill out, it seems fair to say that the evolution of the vocabulary of
concepts that constitutes its intellectual framework has also been the
story of the forgetting of the placed location of this kind of academic
work.
__
__
__ The determination to extend the Faustian experiment of
hydro-electrification has been exposed as anachronistic folly although
the State Government continues to support large-scale manufacturing.
__
__
__ Under the appellation of the Tasmanian archive, this set of
conversations and the mercurial langue they ghost, is the object of
analysis for this book.
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the almost is or sort of like.
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__ A truly cosmopolitan acceptance of economic diversity is still yet
to come and may, after 30 or 40 years of neo-liberalism, have been
pushed even further out of reach.
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a line, a pier, cast away.
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__ , Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1998); John Waters, ed.
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the self-same place where poems skulk.
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__ lines, its county signs, all contrived to magnify the things we do,
to make them more remote or give the potentates their little kingdoms.
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the rivers dammed or lakes drowned hard before the bending men.
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__ that repulsive guy at the library in melbourne, one of the only
truly repulsive people i've met, he looked like a pig and even grunted
as he pushed the trolley of books, he knew of sandy bay, said the words
like they meant something, strength, success, money.
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__ The universal symbol of modernisation: heavy, labour intensive
industry was the obvious choice, and the state, unusually blessed in
its possession of large-scale hydro-electric potential, pursued this
goal with vigour and determination.
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__ The spelling "Trukanini" is favoured by the Palawa people in
Tasmania today.
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and so i ask: who is the booted turd who always shuts
my gate?
it must be me.
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but maybe they will, my kids that is.
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__ we hated our home and hated ourselves for hating it and for staying
here and for not being good enough to change it all.
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67 right in,
the empty page,
through thin venetian flesh,
the hammer.
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__ i wondered how you made the decision to marry me.
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still
in my submarine.
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__ it might be scuttled or allowed to lie, collecting barnacles on its
side, like ships i have seen on the caspian sea, left in the lurch by
the tide of time.
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__ they spruced up themselves up, cardboard tight, with those up-turned
collars and the steel grey hair.
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__ With the waves of postwar migration lapping even at the shores of
this far-flung place, progress, prosperity and modernity beckoned and,
in the long boom of post-war capitalism, for a moment even seemed
attainable.
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__ remember when evie won the prize at school.
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__ The difficulties that bear most heavily have something to do with
feelings of inadequacy as well as of usefulness and the reckless or
hard-wone imagination of a distant and irrelevant audience.
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__ she had an idea.
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i rise, sea-run, leviathan.
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__ how could it happen any other way? we stayed in school and got our
degrees.
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__ it never lies.
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__ of thin young men with paper skin, angling from the horn of thrift.
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?
no means exhausts the interpretive possibilities available therein.
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low slung, cinder block (is that what they call it?) indiana paddock?
on a full scholarship to an agricultural school.
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__ i saw not
her five fathoms full.
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we drift, "they'll decide today and we'll have a new government.
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__ Driving rain is close to the Freudian conception because the drive
is immanent to the driven, or is compartmentalised so the id becomes a
motor, the ego a vehicle and the superego a set of traffic rules,
petrol prices, climativ conditions (including driving rain and air as
pure as the driven snow.
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__ The Forestier and Tasman peninsulas reach down around to the east
and, in concert with the land that gives them shape, the Derwent River
and its tributaries form a series of sheltering bays and isthmuses that
hold the capital city of Hobart firm against the shaggy purple-blue
bulk of Mount Wellington.
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__ she seemed sad enough.
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__ it wouldn't have been out of place somewhere more central.
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__ we get the tourists in.
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i raised my fist and rubbed him out.
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__ 13; Lisa Horler, "Black Survivors of White History: The Tasmanian
Aboriginal Extinction Myth and the Documentary Black Man's Houses by
Steve Thomas," Metro, 94 (1993), pp.
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Here, then equality is measured in terms of money but also in terms of
prestige and influence, fame, job satisfaction and so on.
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__ Tasmania as a thing-in-itself is only a whisper, a faint outline,
filled in and obscured by the contours which we typically recognise as
giving presence to a place: empirical fact, subjective perception,
natural environment, felt memory and its histories, artistic
representation and configuration.
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__ 145-165.
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a shot of light, and then a haze
a shimmer, rippled cold.
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__ i didn't feel sorry.
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__ that working class pride, that masculine urge to produce and to
labour and to keep on pushing through to the end of the shift.
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__ a bauxite rich industrial load the gorgeous blonde, the gantry clone
the withdrawn hook, kiss and progress charts.
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__ Here, there is a link to the ideas formulated by Bruno Latour.
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history twirls and discourse feints,
private chronicles spinning
out to catch the shining fish.
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these thoughts of i as someone else,
never me, but close enough, as one who whispers
in my ear,
'i am near to you.
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and history yearns to choke our balls.
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__ 30 September, 2003 .
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conferred in enclaves dense with steeped, perverse and cultured men
that all was void and could not gel without the hand of god.
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__ Heterogeneity is the order of the day and Tasmania, as a brand name
at least, seems to have ample room for developing its peculiar
specificities into marketable commodities.
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__ See Robert Millikin, "Genocide Film Stirs University Press Race
Row," The National Times (22 July 1978), pp.
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Hobart
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when i rode past here i was a little
stony god but thought myself
a little effigy_god.
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__ that's why i hacked at my wrists.
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__ you always say it.
__
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__ doesn't she like the confident, noisy ones better.
__
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__ As far as this project is concerned, referencing is an unavoidable
chore.
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Historical events and material forms contribute to the character of a
location, but their delineation so often posits reified entities
dangerously lacking in vitality.
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__ Just as for Deleuze and Guattari, a minor literature is written in
the deterritorialised language of the coloniser, a minor place like
Tasmania is subject to a process of displacement wherein its distance
from imperial centres comes to be inscribed as a lack which must then
be renegotiated through the terms provided by the colonising culture.
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__ the strangeness that we covet.
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__ the killer's lips are wet and wet.
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__ cutting mpeg.
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we all have time to grow.
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78 i feel you land inside my heart, upon the shore, a poison dart.
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the analyst, fresh from his trip beneath the sea,
twitchy and
mpeg compact.
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__ In this context, the centrality of place to this project generates a
number of tensions with Cultural Studies in its hegemonic
manifestations.
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they twitter there, in snappy notes
and call me forward
into conversation or explain
away my absence
as if i was not me nor
you, a bundled copse, a batty crack.
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__ Furthermore, the position of minor places on the fringes of
modernity makes them useful sites for the reading of cultural logics
that also define putative centres because of the estrangement effect
that achieves a reterritorialisation of those dominant sites.
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__ and this electronic machine transmits my thoughts.
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__ Redistirbution through tax transfers could be ramped up to such a
point that income inequality which IN Australia at least has imcreased
since the highpint of equality in the early 1970s would disappear and
everone would have the same moey power to spend as they saw fit.
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__ But as with any social organism, the metastases of dis-ease are
heavily localised.
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__
But what does the preceding list of historical incidents and
characteristics really tell us? Naturally it is not supposed to be
comprehensive - innumerable details could be added, outlines filled in,
narratives linked together - and yet, it brings together the
developmental trajectories cited by "official" historians of Tasmania
as being most integral to the written past of this island community.
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__ " p.
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__ or else, they were overdoing it without much grace, ignorant of
trends, self-enclosed.
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__ The conversations that give form to this complex are carried out in
different dialects and discourses, in a multitude of forums from the
local pub to the daily papers - there are three of them - from novels
and film, to public policy and popular folklore.
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we scour alone for plots and action.
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__ 2.
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__ See Jim Everett, "Aboriginality in Tasmania," 30 September, 2003.
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scared of depth and always cold.
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__ d.
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__ As Deleuze and Guattari write, "the first characteristic of a minor
literature is that in it language is affected with a high coefficient
of deterritorialization.
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was it the lack of monuments or the meagre industrial output.
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__ when i got sick i thought i was finished.
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__ i don't think she's happy either and i know how dear she is to you.
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__ The fuzzy warmth of radical limitations.
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__ We contend that identity is only formed in relation to objects;
there is no essentialised identity that exists independently of our
relations.
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__ and brain scans show i worked her well.
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__ With knees buckling under the weight of convictism and genocide, the
colony struggled to its feet.
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the desert you, he himself, the dreams,
he felt the joists in organ.
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__ new cracks opened up in the walls of the front bedroom.
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doubt, if not for knowing that we could fall as well_to welfare
suburbs, tatty towers, violet streets where e-waste clogs the verge.
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__ will i buy the aqualung or seal it hot for creuset, polo, blue-ray.
__
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__ Some older men just keep banging on with their silly ideas and take
the repudiactions of the younger men as evidence of their own rareified
and hardwon wisdom.
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the boardwalk too is powered down.
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'don't linger long inside the mall,'
all this sprawl is a worry though isn't it.
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__ , South Atlantic Quarterly 95, 1 (1996); Houston A.
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__ too many mistakes to count and stand corrected i mean no undue harm.
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__ it has a hinge and, inside,
laplanche and pontalis
i wasn't listening, watching the hunched
figure back behind the wall, walking back and forth.
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__ Dirk Moses, "Rendering the Past Less Unpalatable,".
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__ 'The term "Black Armband" history was coined by Geoffrey Blainey in
"Goodbye to All That?," The Weekend Australian, (1-2 May 1993), p.
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__ we all spelled so badly, naked voice, raw and clichéd have here
today the more of all and even that the giving back, the going forward,
the talking over.
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__ always dancing.
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__ people leaving.
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We all know though how rich we are.
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__ However it does usually disappoints me.
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just
and still but one recorded disc, was left to mention
three dimensions.
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__ In recent years, for instance, CEOs of large companies have managed
to negotiate rapidly ballooning salaries that now factors up to 300
times the wages of their 'normal' employees.
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__ my nose is bulbous.
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__
Logically they should have been united, not only by the common bond of
oil that had kept them in clothes for sixty years, but by the bonds of
loneliness.
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__ cured in salt or caulked with lime.
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__ The instructional novel holds a mirror up to society.
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__ We are a log way away from a universal safety net that extends byond
national borders - something fot eh the EU ti think about right now
given the situation.
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__ *Monkeys Pay Per View : Adaptive Valuation of Social Images by
Rhesus Macaques, Deaner, Khera, latt, Current Boiology, vol15: 543-48
march 29
Superstars are created who possess some attribute that is way beyond
that of the normal man or woman.
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__ I have a lot of time to read for one.
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__ Can any of you really imagine sitting at a table with a pile of
books and signing them for the customers.
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__ I will talk about people and those people might die.
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We could say that there is a truth crisis in the world but we feel no
solid grounds for making this claim.
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__ Or else it has something to do with deference.
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__ Place and Experience.
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__ Philosophy often still works with government or non-gov organisation
such a AHURI in the vein of public policy, but increasingly, its
proponents are showing a willingness to take risks and to move into
trickier territories such as phenomenology, actor-network theory and
psychoanalysis.
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__ Mrs Dalloway, p .
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__ Turning one's home into a code to be deciphered or a language game
to be played is a luxury many people cannot afford.
__
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__ It was becoming possible to imagine a future in which the megarich
took shelter in their armed and gated communities, while a billion or
so slum dwellers were encircled in their fetid hovels by watchtowers
and barbed wire.
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__ why here? i have found friends enough to keep me company.
__
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__ That is, for a disgusting France, corrupt, inefficient, racist,
anti-Semite, run by the rich for the rich-no one wanted to die for
that, until, well, until we understood that the Nazis were worse.
__
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__ As the Marx Brothers might have put it, 'this man may look like a
corrupt idiot and act like a corrupt idiot, but don't let that deceive
you - he is a corrupt idiot.
__
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__ Think about people whose object relations are so volatile and
deformed that they turn obscure mass-produced things into totemic
objects.
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__ Living here in my home town, I run into people quite a lot, people
who I was friendly with at some point.
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__ This workaholics.
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__ park the car away behind the bollards and gather
the ghosts i know as emanation, all in chains, the brittle dawn, it
sucks at birds the colour of silt.
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__ I think that the tensions around register and method and genre
reflect some of the differences that make our working relationship
gritty and interesting.
__
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__ the magnificent seven would feel at home and maybe they could settle
those ornery turkeys that n__ picked up for such a bargain.
__
__
Thank god I don't have to defend that claim.
__
__
__ The fourfold is right there in the face of all the world's readers
even when it is policed and/or irrigated - at the same time and with
the same varying rate of change - by the pony-boys, the big-gun outlaws
or scattergun injunctions, split roofing felt, spelt or misspelled
despoilation.
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__
Hamlet Act 1, scene 5, 159-167
We argue first then, that philosophy investigations of how objects
operate and are made operable in the home have been too restrictive,
too positivistic and too narrow-sometimes clouded by a fear amongst its
practitioners to bring other kinds of knowledge into the conversation,
an anxiety that is, that other specialists will resent the move but not
an ignorance or a proof of inability to deal with complex abstractions
or of sensibility that might enrich the languages in which philosophy
is normal couched, and second, that a broader, more relational,
philosophy research agenda is required.
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__ We know that systems or paradigms are rarely, or maybe even never,
complete and convincing and permanent and there is nothing disreputable
about picking and choosing from these more or less self-sufficient
constellations of ideas and reterritorialising them somewhere else.
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__ World Cups, Olympics.
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__ In important respects, this has led to a failure by many scholars to
consider the subjectivities that take place within the home and in
particular how the meanings of ''home' are integral to identity
formation.
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__ When we grow up, here in Tasmania, we are taught that we are
supposed to treat other adults as equals and children as blessed gifts.
__
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__ 5- source Wikipedia
Measuring income inequality has long been of interest in applied social
and economic
research in Australia.
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__ We must be free to think of others' needs, free to recognise
difference and diversity, free to imagine a common humanity hidden
beneath superficial racial or religious differences.
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__ .
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__ But mirrors are for games - for the image of wholeness, for trying
new looks, for turning left into right.
__
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__ Some older men assume they are better than younger men (at life, at
knowing, at judgement, at repetition) even if the younger men can do
things that the older men can't.
__
__
__ From this angle, the harbour side suburb will applaud divagations
from the norm when they lead to a lucrative and successful Mardi Gras
parade or a soccer league or even a souvlaki shop, but when people
fail, it will promptly ensure that they become as invisible as everyone
else.
__
__
__ Anyway, I know you like Auden - who doesn't, the last heroic English
language poet, died the year postmodernism started - so when I found
this reference to a poem you've described to me, I wanted to include it
here.
__
__
__ blogspot.
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__ she's your oldest friend.
__
__ This was an edited transcript of Blainey's Latham Memorial Lecture,
which he delivered in Sydney during the same week.
__
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__ Richard Dienst tells us the the global economy is more unequal than
any single national economy.
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Rose, G.
__
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__ The degree zero of what Philip Mead used to called rabid pluralism
is the obliteration of conversation and shared meaning, we are all
locked into ourselves then, caught between echo and narcissus, opening
and shutting our eyelids while the nursing staff take the humour from
our veins-
the commission seeks feedback on a workable funding arrangement for
catastrophic injuries resulting from water, air and railway modes of
transport.
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__ Quite simply, philosophy is surely as contested as any other
discipline within the social sciences and the humanities.
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__ 19.
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__ It starts early.
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__ So first things first.
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__ .
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__ and Williams, P.
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__ The faces of women flowed through his memory.
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__ But in order to do that I have to lay out a range of terms and
explain my own motives in attempting this attempt.
__
__
.
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__ Of course, I have always felt authentic in regard to writing and
thinking and throughout my youth I always thought that I would leave
Tasmania like everyone else to seek my fortune on lustrous pavements
somewhere else.
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__
__ These are the harbour side suburb's others: samey, familiar, hokey,
daggy, comforting, claustrophobic, stifling, narrow-minded and prissy:
In the soft, unseasonable warmth the village seemed comfortable and
homelike - not dignified, not impressive, certainly not beautiful, but
not unattractive.
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__
Now this kind of statement is not easy to categorise or indeed, to
understand as anything other than an affront to the pale standards of
academic truth.
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__ 1999.
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__ Lucky we have the safety net.
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__ , Gendered Contexts: New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies
(New York: Peter Lang, 1996); Jill Forbes and Michael Kelly, eds.
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__ , The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Macmillan and Co.
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__ 195.
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If you put these two different kinds of inequality together, we are
drawn towards the important academic debtate about recognition and
redistribution.
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__ Sport seems to run according to different rules.
__
__
__ The anthropologist Gell (1994) deploys the term 'technology of
enchantment' to explain how an individual engagement with an object
generates an object's agency.
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__ In other words, object and subjects are mutually inter-defined.
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Miller, D.
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__
What I hope to do here, then, is give our verbal exchanges a different
kind of material substrate, transpose them into written words, slow
them down and sharpen them up.
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__ , A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies (Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 1997); David Palumbo and Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht, eds.
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__ The Poetics of Space, (trans.
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__ Were they fact or fiction? Did
__ the cloak.
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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__ Still our gino isn't much better than the U.
__
__
__ Publications of the English Goethe Society, 68, 20-28.
__
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__ Then out it comes again, its chemistry changed, it returns to the
heavens and new rain is born.
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__
__ For Proust involuntary memory is a felt quality found in the
concrete or place.
__
__
__ The harbour side suburb that vouchsafes the seductive offer, 'Be
what you wanna be, do what you wanna do', also says, 'don't expect us
to clean up after you when things get messy.
__
__
__ I walk a darker line and one that is, for all that, nothing like the
desert where heroes of edgy thinking skulk around all day waiting to
inherit the empirical scale of time.
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__ chorus down.
__
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__ we capture life finally to make it stay and to gird our
recollections of days no different from those we have, as if to make
these days more than they are and embargo time with samples and choice.
__
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__ I wish I had some nice sausages for my lunch!
You could call this a picaresque novel if you like but it's really much
more like a tragedy.
__
__
__ In this sense the following figure might be of use: Harbour side
suburb Township
Good Open Supportive
Bad Oblivious Closed
But this is a schematisation and also a generalisation.
__
__
__ S.
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__ 48 (OECD 2006).
__
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__ The personal emplacement of the subject, its immersion in rivers of
class meaning, racial projections, its own story, gathered from the
outside, assigned to the place that marks the self inside the body or
outside of it, makes Australian difference the sufficient cause
(another fold) of an impressive arsenal of familiar (and contemptible),
racist, anti-intellectual systems of production and exchange, vacancy
control and stage-managed centralisation.
__
__
__ Catching up with friends and family is tinged with sadness because
it opens up the absence of contact and missed occasions.
__
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__ In The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective.
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__ , Ill Fares the Land, Penguin, New York, 2010.
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__
(the technically superior European players were technically superior:
To let the present be replaced by the future in election years.
__
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__ Cocoa prices have not kept pace with the cost of living.
__
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__
Latour(1996, p.
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__ '
Harbour side suburb is real even though it doesn't exist.
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__ i don't mind and didn't you sell a three hundred dollar dress just
the other day.
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Bachelard, G.
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__ I think I've made about 150 bucks selling poems.
__
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__ Hobart was a genuine, bustling commercial centre in miniature.
__
__ He was disappointed on both counts; in imputing an anonymity to the
object of his adamic interpellation and in aiming so high in his
conjugal ambitions.
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__ As children we are projected in love, this makes us brave and able
to give that love back.
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__
Winnicott, D.
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__ For Thomas, the interest is not so much as to what objects are
designed to be but what they have become.
__
__
__ In response to this skimmy, selfish approach I have tried to read
'deeply'.
__
__ Is such a move symptomatic of a fetishised identity politics that
would produce an absolute irreducibility of competing discursive voices
were it to be applied to a methodology for Cultural Studies? Or would
such a development escape the cul-de-sac of the differend and open up
discussion at the micro-cultural level that would surpass the debate
around national versions in its detail and sensitivity to difference,
thereby engendering new kinds of productive discussions and research
synergies? Anthologies that embody the trend toward the nationalisation
of place in Cultural Studies include Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes and
Jonathan Petropolous, eds.
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Miller, D.
__
__
__ And all of this coexists with the persistent images of home as a
place of comfort, safety, and refuge (Mack, 1991:6).
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__
It is certainly the case that our understanding of home is shaped by
the wider politics and in particular the social and economic
inequalities.
__
__
__ Not because it adduces Borges, who is himself a fabulist cliché, a
certain kind of mystery/absurdist logic generator circulated within
graduate seminars that may or may not exist anymore in the North or in
populous, affluent centres of the Southern Cone.
__
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__ Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990, p.
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__ Dickens, C.
__
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__
Many human beings believe that humans are innately hierarchical
animals.
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__ But often older men will just claim to have outdone the younger men
in their own youth.
__
__
__ Human beings are basically pitiful creatures with only the dimmest
awareness of the full realities of life and the processes of causation
that operate in our technological world.
__
__
__ The idea of mediation also provides a clue here.
__
__ __ Thus the sort of literature which is content to 'describe
things', to provide nothing more that a miserable list of lines and
surfaces, despite calling itself realist, is the furthest away from
reality, the most impoverishing and depressing, because it
unceremoniously cuts all communication between our present self and the
past, the essence of which is retained in things, and the future, where
things prompt us to enjoy it afresh.
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The degree to which we are open to the other effects our interpersonal
relations in a fundamental way.
__
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__ Systems unpeel to other systems, there are closed of microcosms,
closed off neighbourhoods, closed of mentalities.
__
__
__ (Sartre in Ian Buruma, "Who Did Not Collaborate?", New York Review
of Books, February 24 - March 9, 2011, Volume LVIII, Number 3, p.
__
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__ Jameson is a mysterious figure not least because he is based in the
American as opposed to the Global south.
__
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__ Fredric Jameson has written before about the silliness of being in
favour or opposition to what wasonce called postmodern culture.
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I think it's highly likely that the hegemon who gives the gift of
recognition will, in the end, have given as much to themselves as they
have given to the newcomer or fringe dweller that has been brought into
the fold.
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__ Which is also to say that cosmopolitanism, with its definitive
emphasis on openness, is largely the same kind of phenomenon wherever
it is played out.
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__ wsj.
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__ How are we supposed to choose the register of our own work? - the
work of the reader and the writer, bare knuckled opponents, blissful
sweethearts, comrades in oblivion.
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Dear Brigitte, I would just like to say a special thank you for all
your work during the past year preparing for the AAIR forum.
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Whilst the meaning of objects is reliant on humans, their effects on
the social world are not dependent on the generation of meaning.
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__ For the first time the urban population of the earth will outnumber
the rural.
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__ Try buying waterfront property on a retail wage.
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__ Recognition of this kind can be considered a cosmopolitan act of
'generosity', but I would like to contend here that such a gesture is
not necessarily as generous as it first seems.
__
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__ But they all open out to the larger whole - even when this opening
out goes unnoticed.
__
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__ But it is important here to remember that jameson's weight issues
may well have been linked to anti-psychothic medication and or various
forms of toneish meditation a la the magisters of Hesse's Castalia -
which for me as for all clever insituionalised young people, was really
only ever the story of my life and continues to be a guide.
__
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__ But Jimi's got a lick that's better than both of ours.
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__ Mrs Dalloway, p .
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__ Pp.
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__ Here, the role of the CEO as the symbol of the company, the figure
head and functional leader, game changer, negotiator of decision
points, gives him the opportunity to make a claim to a decisive value-
adding role that is easily measurable through signals such as share
prices.
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This harbour side suburb is a fantastical beast, a chimera or a
gryphon, part Blade Runner, part Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, part
Dickension London, part Manhattan Transfer, part The Sheltering Sky,
part American Psycho.
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__ The rules of engagement of both the diachronic and the depth
analysis are not privileged here because of the profound de-valuing of
fact-based narrativisation that drives my thinking.
__
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__ Show them the forms of monsterousness and the forms of beauty that
are hidden in their lives, that have been pushed aside or promoted too
vociferously.
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"habit is a stronger veld", captain markus, said the alexandrine copse.
__
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__ Surely Peter Carey doesn't think he's operating on that level? And
the same can be said for every other writer, timely or untimely,
brutish or fey.
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__ i slapped them all
down, rebored 40k.
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__ H.
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__ My wife and I returned from Melbourne in our mid-twenties to raise
children in close contact with our extended families, to buy an
affordable mind and to 'give back to our local community'.
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Within my mouth you have enjailed my tongue,
Doubly portcullised with my teeth and lips,
And dull unfeeling barren ignorance
Is made my gaoler to attend on me.
__
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__ A good example of this is electronic music.
__
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__ The heat of exchange, the motion of thought, turns the ideas to gas.
__
__
__ Proust wrote of objects that they contain qualities in the following
terms 'the unconscious silence which inanimate objects preserve' Proust
is suggesting that our engagement with an object evokes a sensation
that is more insightful than a rational recollection through memory.
__
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__ 2006.
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Maintaining full empathetic openness to the other, though, has always
been demanding.
__
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__ He could expect to pass the farm and the responsibilities eventually
to one of his nephews.
__
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__ where are they? in
my drawer-manilla case notes, redact for
publication.
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__ I think in the past I was seeking relationships that would enable me
to show off basically or give me new rivals to compete with.
__
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__ I certainly never intend to undermine you.
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__ What are you supposed to do if you don't like eating at restaurants.
__
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__ Proust's work stands as an alternative to this modus videre.
__
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__ The oblivious critic is known by nobody but in his absence from the
scene (like Dylan's jack of hearts) can make a claim to know the famous
other precisely because this category is never undermined by friendship
or proximity.
__
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__ A walk to this wicket gate, with all the fading nations, with Freud
and Marx, Ovid and Aesop; cuts the skin as if it were leaves on a new
codex.
__
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__ Put simply, if all human beings were valued equally, why would we
need fiscal redistribution - undersirablo suburbs would becomes just as
desirable as any other part of town, old cars would give you just as
much status as a new car and so on.
__
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__
We can see things, but from our place and through our present
perspective.
__
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__ onstitutional.
__
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__ Marcin, In Search of Schopenhauer's Cat: Arthur Schopenhauer's
Quantum-Mystical Theory of Justice, Catholic University of America
Press, 2006, p.
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__ Anonymity, for instance, is one of the cardinal virtues of the
harbour side suburb and something coveted with particular vehemence by
émigré's from the township.
__
__ What is missing from this formulation, though, is a sensitivity to
the generic conventions of two kinds of writing, one a historical and
ethnographic form interested in the embedded placement of modernity,
and the other a social scientific form more attuned to the delineation
of trends, statistical models and broad synthetic shapes.
__ The act of displacement that Windschuttle completes in Fabrication
was also always a goal I had in mind when I began to think about the
way that modernity's developmental trajectories have been played out
here in Tasmania.
__ But these speech acts are not hopelessly dispersed.
__
__
__ This transposition however does not necessarily endorse or
recuperate the dualistic distribution of political valency sometimes
assigned to the cosmopolitical versus the bounded where the former is
held up as an unalloyed good - progressive, enlightened, forward
looking - while the latter is consigned to anachronistic irrelevance as
retrograde, conformist and stifling.
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__ Always it had started in a sort of cold-blooded wilfulness and ended
in some mean, callous desertion.
__
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__ (eds) Visuality/Materiality: Images, Objects and Practices,
Aldershot: Ashgate Press.
__
When I began researching this book, I was not aware of the work
Windschuttle was preparing for The Fabrication of Aboriginal History,
but I was to run into his scholarship in the early stages of my own
deliberations.
__
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__ Speed and Other Liberties, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2008.
__
This book consists of an extended introductory component followed by
three sections that chart an uneven course through historical time from
the invasion of Tasmania in 1803 to the present.
__
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__ How would you know if you'd done it.
__ The second essay, "A Plural Line of Sight", moves forward in time to
the age of hydro-electric industry, positioning a micro-history of
Tasmanian industrialisation and a précis of the larger story of nature
and modernity, between two readings of the phenomenological compression
of wilderness and industry at two locations across the state.
__
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__ When a new mind needed building, he would organize it.
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Veblin, T.
__
The modernity stream of the book charts a course through three
different entanglements with modernity and modernisation.
__
The third and final part of the modernity stream focuses on the
emotional attachment that the Tasmanian population has formed with its
electricity-generating history and infrastructure.
__ This is an important achievement because it neutralises the
shibboleth of a cheapened version of Derrida's "there is nothing
outside the text", the disingenuous reductio ad absurdum that many
critics of the deconstructive approach rehearse.
__ [.
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__ Even though he is a dreadful writer and little more than a systemic
expression, David Foster Wallace's (Dallas-Fort Worth) quote - no doubt
chosen by the marketing department at Little, Brown or gathered by an
epigraph harvester, "We fill pr-existing forms and when we fill them we
change them and are changed" is useful here.
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__ (Proust Date)
Conclusions
What then? Here is where the chalet transforms itself from a mnemonic
trigger to a storage device .
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__ Hobart presents a good snapshot of what happens when openness,
diversity, cafes and subcultures spread to the cosmopolitan township,
or, indeed, the compact cosmopolitan city, but still run up against
relative poverty, isolation, jingoism and boorishness.
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__ World Cups, Olympics.
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__ The decisive cosmopolitan antinomy - people are open or people are
closed - is, I would like to suggest, a non-place-specific formulation.
__ At any given point in the history of Tasmania, these two
trajectories position their moments of enunciation as dialogical nodes
connecting the past with the future.
__ On the one hand, genocide and modernity are thematic clusters with
historical form: objects of knowledge that are contained within the
Tasmanian archive.
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The line between relativism and pluralism is smeared and blurred and
the dominance of both in a cultural setting creates serious problems
because of the inevitable levelling of value and values that seems to
follow in its wake.
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__ It takes effort to read and it is really only worthwhile because it
is hard to do.
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__ My father is quite different.
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Thrift, N.
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__ So subjectivity is always emplaced in material world.
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__ The writing of A.
__ The archive both records and enables different relations to the
past, present and future that can be mapped.
__
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__ This is the exclusion that constitutes the writers privacy and their
individuality especially when individuality is regarded as structural
rather than absolute or transcendent or indeed, calimed by fiat.
__
__ Quentin Skinner, however, has argued in relation to Charles Taylor's
work on disenchantment that
[w]e have come to believe that we ourselves are the sources and
creators of the values by which we live.
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__ The repetitions.
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__ (Proust 2003:193)
In this passage Proust is suggesting that mere description can never
capture experience.
__
My point here is that through time the enfolding of language, opinion
and fact performed by the archive takes different forms.
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__ Objects shape the world in ways that humans do.
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Objects are always in a process of transformation and translation.
__ Initially, the entire thrust of my project was directed toward a
reversal of the notion that Tasmania had been left behind by modernity.
__ To address the problem of signal to noise presented by this
formulation, this book targets the narrow frequency ranges of genocide
and modernity, providing a provisional and partial tabulation of their
unfolding through the Tasmanian archive.
__
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__ As such, most anti-cosmopolitan gestures are small, mundane and
curmudgeonly.
__ These two trajectories mirror each other, I contend, in that the
first embodies a collective despair and recuperates its emotional
charge from the past, while the latter embodies a collective hope and
looks forward to the future.
__ __
__ Our ways of seeing are increasingly subject to routine and
distraction with the results that what we know is superficial.
__
__ Businessmen work in the shadows building cartels and monopolies and
sometimes as in the failed mineral super tax, the two forces confront
one another or are forced to use various forms of propaganda to gain
public approval for their position.
__
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__ The notion of romantic materialism can be used to convey what Proust
is alluding to.
__
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__ What is the origin of the thirst for change? What is the source of
this discontent? Why do people break down so dramatically in the face
of uncomfortable truth? Why do universities allow students to study
unreason? If one cannot speak to the other in a shared language, or if
that shared language has too many dark dips and corners where other
ideas lurk, why must it be so hard for both parties to admit that they
are unsure of what they are saying? Why would it occur to someone that
another person is intimidated by them, when this other is really doing
her best to understand at all? To misrecognise an earnest tolerance and
conscientious curiosity for signs of intimidation suggests a large
chasm of misunderstanding that one would expect from people of vastly
different cultures, nations or tribes perhaps.
__ At face value, the national significance of Windschuttle's book
would appear to lie in its bold contention that respected, high-profile
historians like Lyndall Ryan and Henry Reynolds had deliberately
doctored empirical data so as to underline emphatically their argument
that the Australian colonial frontier was, in the first instance, a
site of carnage and, in the second, of organised, guerilla resistance.
__
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__ So she might be a doctor.
__
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__ For Bourdieu, the meanings we attach to objects are, to a large
degree, externally imposed by the consumer values and ideology.
__ This tranche of developments is serendipitous in the context of this
book because it brings home the fact that "minor" places can attain a
"major" significance if they are looked at in an expedient light.
__ The colony of Van Diemen's Land, as it was originally known, comes
first because it has long been regarded as the worst-case scenario.
__ By historicising the archival articulations that are the primary
objects of my investigations, I mimic the forms of language that carry
them "officially" from the past into the present.
__ In combination with the purchase of three vessels, aptly titled
Spirit of Tasmania I, II and III, for plying the Bass Strait between
Tasmania and the Australian mainland, I aim to show here that the
collective decision to retain public control of the Hydro-Electric
Commission marks a partial re-enchantment of the state.
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P R E F A T O R Y
How are we to conceive of the [archive], if it corresponds neither to
the archive in the strict sense - that is, the storehouse that catalogs
the traces of what has been said, to consign them to future memory -
nor to the Babelic library that gathers the dust of statements and
allows for their resurrection under the historian's gaze.
__
Sections two through four comprise the detailed reading of the
Tasmanian archive.
__
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__ As she writes 'by narrating stories about and around the objects
they display in their homes, individuals can account for identities
that otherwise might not be immediately present or presentable'.
__
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__ High poetic speech has no clear place in our society especially when
our political leaders aree bound by technical nuance and muffled checks
by media advisors.
__
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__ 9 - Japan and New Zealand best - 4.
__ To this end, this book also looks at how large-scale, abstracted
socio-cultural logics play themselves out on a local stage.
__
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__ Authors, of course, are my friends as well and when I write I feel
as if I am writing to them and with them.
__ Drawing on a theoretical model taken from Dipesh Chakrabarty's
Provincializing Europe: Historical Difference and Postcolonial Thought
(2000), this chapter proposes a reappraisal of a consummately modern
concept - rationalisation - through an examination of the
anti-rationalist refusal of privatisation enacted by the Tasmanian
electorate in the 1998 state poll.
__
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__ Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
__
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__ Proust's work shows that the significance of objects is not so much
their material existence but their relational effects on the social
world.
__ See Margaretta Pos, "Jews upset by Mansell," 30 September, 2003.
__
__
Following Chakrabarty's lead, a site-based analysis of the clash of
disenchantment and re-enchantment in a non-European modernity makes
possible the decentring of Euro-centric conceptions of the modern
precisely because it demonstrates that the putatively modern and the
putatively non-modern can act together within a frame that is itself
inescapably modern.
__ This rediscovery of identity is an instructive example of the way an
archive can bear witness to a transformation in the rules governing
what can and can't be said about a given place.
__
__
__ Laing wrote about games that got tangled-up and ensnared the
players.
__ At others, I re-read episodes of Tasmanian history as if they refer
to a concrete referent, a social totality or substantive
extra-linguistic place.
__
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__ As your car fought its way across West Texas along Intersate 20 in
the blistering heat and it felt as though you had been in the state for
a week and had another week to go before you saw any sign of human
life, they suddenly rose out of the emptiness like territorial forts.
__
__
__ Or rather, what he might have meant had he added that, by not
reading good books we will almost make ourselves stupid and bad.
__ 226-46.
__ To the reader well-versed in Tasmaniana, it proposes a
re-inscription and a reassessment.
__ Here, the archive is encoded through the work of Foucault so that it
comes to designate "the system of relations between the unsaid and the
said", or "the dark margin encircling and limiting every concrete act
of speech.
__
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__ Each of these three parts is given a temporal heading that performs
an uneven periodisation: uneven, because this is not the kind of
reconstructive thesis that purports to tell a story stretched out along
a linear chronology.
__
__
__ But can we expect anyone else to be interested? How odd it must feel
to know that the words you write have a guaranteed audience.
__ The novel is social, the author of the novel thinks socially.
__ The discovery of Zygmunt Bauman's influential work Modernity and the
Holocaust (1989) seemed to take this path in an intriguing direction so
I followed it, first, to Henry Reynolds' An Indelible Stain: The
Question of Genocide in Australian History (2001), then to Bill Thorpe
and Raymond Evans' thoroughgoing demolition of Windschuttle's Quadrant
pieces from the mid-1990s, "Indigenocide and the Massacre of Aboriginal
History" (2001).
__
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__ In the end, he is really quite old, one could almost say, well, if
not really elderly, almost.
__
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__ S.
__
It has a secondary function, however, that derives from its place in
Giorgio Agamben's discourse on Emile Benveniste's "The Semiology of
Language" as described in Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the
Archive.
__
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__ A hierarchy here has something to do with power and aptitude.
__ The modernity thread that runs through this book was thus, almost
from the outset, intimately bound up with the genocide thread.
__ Rather, their mutually constitutive arising subtends an antinomy of
place and language.
__
By drawing attention to the way the archive encloses the material
conditions that make possible a given statement, Agamben prevents the
"virtuality" of the discourse itself from entirely eclipsing the
objects to which it is wed.
__ 48.
__ This kind of substitution is nothing new in its own right, other
parts of Australia have long been invoked as worthy settings for the
telling of national narratives: the Victorian goldfields of The
Fortunes of Richard Mahony, the innercity Sydney slums of Bobbin Up or
the Melbourne bohemia of Monkeygrip.
__ The intermingling of these dialectical opposites through the visual
experience of the perceiving subject metaphorises the ideational
splitting that produces the complementary definitions of wilderness and
nature in modernity.
__ To my knowledge, the explosion of debate blasted into the public
sphere by Windschuttle's book, is the first and only instance of
"official" Tasmanian history being used to re-write an "official"
Australian history.
__
__
__ (2001) 'Thing thoery' Critical Enquiry 28, 1.
__ Throughout the history of the Tasmanian archive both genocide and
modernisation have been made the subject of contested, affectively
charged statements, propositions and utterances.
__ Those historians now upheld as the most reputable on the subject
assure us that the Tasmanian Aborigines were subject to a 'conscious
policy of genocide'.
__
__
__ New York and London: Routledge.
__ To the uninitiated, it serves as a general introduction.
__ Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge, translated by Alan
Sheridan (London: Tavistock Publications, 1972), p.
__
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__ The OPEC response to American support for Israel's end game strike
on Palestine and the failed anchovy fisheries that inflated the cost of
agricualtural production at around the same time, kicked off a reset of
the culrual logics of the west that endangerd central semiotic
categories such as newness, originality, the genius, reality, truth and
so on.
__
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__ Every world is as knowable as it is unknowable.
__
The temporalisation of the book is the first order of its organisation,
but there is a second order that is equally important.
__ 144-45.
__ The optic through which we examine a place and its symbolic
economies needs to be well chosen if we intend to succeed in this task.
__ If the Tasmanians won't face up to [selling the Hydro-Electric
Commission], their future is as a declining offshore craft and produce
market, kept afloat by handouts from mainland taxpayers who may, one
day, revolt.
__ .
__ Windschuttle writes:
Although the series starts in Tasmania, it will eventually cover the
whole of the continental mainland.
__
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__ (1987).
__ Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostevsky's Poetics, translated by
Caryl Emerson, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), pp.
__
There is no possibility in this thesis that the plane of my discourse
will be destroyed.
__
__
In his forward to W.
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Select Bibliography:
Appiah, K.
__ Keith Windschuttle's much publicised challenge to "orthodox"
accounts of civilisational interaction on the Australian frontier, The
Fabrication of Aboriginal History Volume One: Van Diemen's Land
1803-1847 (2003), had just been published and a lively, multiform and
oftentimes downright nasty debate was only just hitting its stride.
__
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__ (2001) 'Rights of passage: On the liminal identity of art in the
border zone', in F.
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__ co.
__ It is both about, and constitutive of, Tasmania in a social-symbolic
sense.
__ It encloses a language that is anchored to speakers, places and
events: phenomena that translate matter into meaning.
__ Aram Veeser, ed.
__
__
__ The irreproachability of a claim to honour philosophy provision in a
hypothetical context --we have the space, we have the skills, we have
the materials- constantly butts up against the reality of the private
control of land on a large scale and the determination of non-property
holders to work towards securing their own post-mortgage title.
__ .
__ Some of them are bound together in contingent assemblage by their
collective emergence from a series of shared moments of inauguration.
__
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__ We say these words in an off-hand way that does little to conceal
our more pressing need to condemn and rebuke.
__
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__ In Howard's End, E.
__ The two contrapuntal trajectories of genocide and modernity carry
this suspension over into the pragmatic unfolding of place identity in
Tasmania.
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King, P.
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__ Perhaps this cosmopolitan equality of recognition renders us all
finally in the same shades of grey.
__
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__ As I am cynical, I would say that this form of writing is often
indicative of the overriding priority to show off and demonstrate
expertise rather than provide elucidation.
__
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__ Reading provides a way for me to reflect on my own life experiences.
__
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__ Nestle vendors in the slums of Rio -awesome! It's all good.
__
__
__ (Thomas 1991:25) Instead, Thomas claims that any attempt to
establish a typology of meaning around subject object relations will
close off the other ways in which objects perform.
__
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__ Anyone who has been to London knows what a hell-hole of inequality
it is and travelling to Paris on eurostar only hammers home the fact
when the supposedy arrogant and aloof French turn out to be delightful,
welcoming and joyous (in April!).
__
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__ All of a sudden I can see the wisdom in your approach.
__ From the time of Trukanini's death until the modern Aboriginal
rights movement found its feet, the archive carried the place of
Aboriginality as a present absence imprinted in fading ink on its
corpus.
__
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__ But these three kings, at least, have yet to proffer the usual gifts
of gold and incense and myrrh.
__ Volume One of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History is dedicated
solely to an examination of the landmark events of the Tasmanian
genocide - the Risdon Massacre, the Cape Grim Massacre and so on - but
it is also clearly looking outward: to the other editions in the
trilogy that are to follow, and to the field of Australian Aboriginal
history and politics more generally.
__
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__ "Basically, an event is what decides about a zone of encyclopedic
indiscernibility" (TW 147).
__
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__ Well how about this? Do you feel like you fit into Hobartian ways
and would you be less lonely and more adventurous if you were back in
London? Don't worry I'm not going to suggest a trip to Brazzaville.
__ The heuristic division of Tasmania's cultural temporality into three
parts reflects the phenomenal "truth" that the people of this island
worked and lived in a social cosmos that was always on the way toward
becoming something other than what it was.
__
Notes Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, translated
by Eric Prenowitz (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996).
__ Because the archive responds to the being of language, as well as to
its fecundity of meaning, its location is simultaneously discursive and
material.
__ That the diegesis of Flanagan's novel is set within the temporal
parameters of the section is not the main issue here because other
material that clearly falls outside its range allows the chapter to
function.
__
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__ But I still don' know why you say you're so lonely.
__
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__ Religious philosophy that considers God (a non-human actor) for
instance or Walter Benjamin in the arcades, or Sennet's Hidden Injuries
of Class (ideological Hardt and Engri Homo Homo - mediaion
We were wrong in suggesting that "modernity has failed to Calling this
move post-social also seems counterintuitive as it aims to be more
social, more extra-human than the 'humanist' hegemony of atomised
rational utility maximisers.
__
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__ I am paid to deliver these mysterious 'practical' jurisdiction bound
documents consistently, thereby staking my labour value at exactly
thirty two dollars and ten cents an hour.
__ Poetics on the other hand, and I think this is Greenblatt's point,
can best be thought as a private, but not reactionary, attempt to order
the world through language.
__
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In recent writings, Richard Jenkins.
__ The past survives for my purposes as a loose collection of fragments
that need not always be shaped by a strong narrative trajectory.
__
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__ An event is the naming of something for which the 'encyclopedia of
knowledge' had no language; it is the calling into existence what the
situation (the encyclopeadia) did not allow.
__
In spite of this permeability, these divisions have their usefulness.
__ If destruction is set in train, it is surely a creative destruction.
__
__
__ To be not-quite cosmopolitan might be worse a fate than to be way
off the mark:
A short stroll from any of the major hotels or transit points you'll
find Tasmania's premier commercial centre Hobart's CBD.
__ As a temporalised assemblage of freestanding essays, the threads of
continuity that hold it together are the contrapuntal problematics of
genocide and modernisation.
__ " The archive in this sense does not bring together the content of
what has been written or said about Tasmania but, rather, marks the
conditions of its "sayability", the material but non-communicative
dimensions that attend every act of enunciation.
__ It also reaches back, however, to draw on primary material from the
field diaries of George Augustus Robinson that is then re-situated in a
contemporary context.
__
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__ The social inclusion report here said 13 percent were excluded which
is not such a bad result.
__ Neither place nor discourse are collapsed into one another in this
equation.
__ This mimicry, it needs be said, is more akin to tribute than to
parody, incorporating the linearity of the hegemonic historical forms
without necessarily honoring their content.
__ In the case of Modernity Studies, the objective is to situate my
reading of a non-metropolitan, peripheral modernity in the context of
the increasingly large body of work interested in de-centring modernity
from its traditional homelands in Europe and North America.
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__ 159-173) Habermas, Jurgen.
__ Each of the three sections that make up the body of the text
includes an essay written in accordance with the tonal oppositions of
the two contrapuntal trajectories of genocide and modernity.
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__ The archive provides us with a way to link language games to
specific places even as those places are in part a product of the
discourses that they anchor.
__ The last chapter of this thesis is filed under the rubric of
restoration, a decision prompted by the recognition that the texts with
which it engages are of an extended historical moment defined by full
presence, and the awareness that the question of genocide in Tasmanian
history has only been taken up properly in the wake of this
re-materialisation.
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__ The hypostatisation of a fluid, lived temporality thus enacted is as
essential as it is ultimately inadequate.
__ Part three, encloses an interval of one hundred and two years, from
the death of the "last Tasmanian" Trukanini to the screening of Tom
Haydon's documentary The Last Tasmanian: A Story of Genocide (1978).
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The genocide thread moves from the moment of European "settlement" in
Tasmania to the "extinction" of the Aborigines after Trukanini's death.
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__ We argue that Proust's work is significant because in many ways his
writings anticipate the insights provided by scholars such as Daniel
Miller and Pierre Bourdieu.
__ The contrapuntal method, as I develop it in this thesis then, is a
private, a personal, and, hopefully, a poetic approach.
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__ In the township on the other hand, support networks abound.
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__ In recent years, for instance, CEOs of large companies have managed
to negotiate rapidly ballooning salaries that now factors up to 300
times the wages of their 'normal' employees.
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__ My account of the story of how Tasmania came to be a place of
genocide and a place of modernity is split between the two registers
under examination.
__ But these cartographies are always partial, it needs to be
remembered, for the same reason that periodisation always presents as
an affront to the organic streams of lived temporality.
__ A fluid, permeable entity, the Tasmanian archive is a mobile site
where the text and talk of everyday discursivity are gathered together.
__ Perhaps we might more precisely describe their operative dimension
as multilateral or omni-directional.
__ What is unique here, and it needs to be noted that we are talking
historical rather than fictional discourse, is that Tasmania now
becomes the exemplary locus for the staging of an historiographical
performance that seeks to reorder an entire sub-disciplinary terrain
that is itself the setting for a variety of important debates about
nationhood, racism and cultural identity.
__ In the case of a concrete location like Tasmania, the very
physicality of a statement reflected in the archive connects that
statement to the place it names.
__ The form of this interrogation is dialectical.
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__ Inevitably many gifted young thinkers and communicators will be
squeezed out of the system for
Be a philosopher, be a mummy, represent monotono-theism by a
gravedigger-mimicry ! - And away, above all with the body , that
pitiable idde fixe of the senses! Infected with every error of logic
there is, refuted, impossible even, notwithstanding it is impudent
enough to behave as if it actually existed!'.
__ After the screening of Haydon's film, however, the archive changed
irrevocably to accommodate a retrospectively reconstructed continuity
of existence and a present tense being-in-the-world.
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__ Another line of argument here is that the game-any game, it doesn't
matter which-has declined as they have got older and today's players
may be more powerful or more professional but they lack the grace,
elegance, humility of the older generation.
__ How, it asks, is the universal language of modernity given a
regional inflection in Tasmania? What, it inquires, does a
non-metropolitan modernity look like up-close? When, it poses, will it
be possible to read a genocidal logic into a historical trajectory
without invoking the Jewish Holocaust?
Through an engagement with these and other questions, this book
challenges the established ways of thinking about the island that I
call home.
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The home holds and reflects (distorts) our fantasies about escaping
from the battle fields of social fear, pecking orders, anxieties and
absurdities that we hear so much about and that we witness with our own
eyes every day (tree-change, sea-change).
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The Schopenhauer family was wealthy and well-connected, and seems to
have had a cosmopolitan propensity for travel and for language.
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__ In his introduction to the anthology Enduring Enchantments, Dube
argues that the "idea of modernity rests on a rupture.
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__ In Chakrabarty's own example of how the experience of political
modernity in India undermines the historicist project at the same time
as its narration remains inextricably tied up with it, the promise of
progress comes in the form of a conditional offer of national
independence that is deferred on the grounds that its potential
recipients are not yet civilised enough to rule themselves.
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Here, the telling of a national story, a story with national
consequences, takes as its initial subject matter a set of localised
events.
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There is a caveat that needs to be added to my delineation of the
concept of the archive.
__ The idea of naming a time - Van Diemonian, Tasmanian, Global -
emerges out of a combination of fact and feeling that orientated my
investigations.
__ This thesis is an attempt at a poetics of culture cast in terms that
draw on Stephen Greenblatt's framing of the project.
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Logically they should have been united, not only by the common bond of
oil that had kept them in clothes for sixty years, but by the bonds of
loneliness.
__ Unless, of course, this falling apart takes place in the ear of the
reader.
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__ It is still part of philosophy's purview to reread, deconstruct and
intervene in unhelpful, inaccurate and divisive philosophy policies,
conversations and prejudices; ways of knowing that treat the home as a
docile body, a foreign object, bricks and mortar- an object central to
our lives but ultimately separate from us.
__ , The New Historicism, (New York: Routledge, 1989), p.
__ The Tasmania archive trespasses into the order of things.
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__ This moment of "harmony of minds" is added to that of a "harmony
with the nature of things".
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__ Proust in effect fetishises objects in his novel by recording the
intense feelings that these objects generate.
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This book places a frame around a collection of moments that carry a
special resonance within the Tasmanian archive.
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__ Become a landlord.
__ The Tasmanian archive is the locus for the storage of utterances
that concern Tasmania, but it also plays a part in ushering a
discursively mediated Tasmania into being.
__ One of the goals of this book is to theorise the means by which
non-linguistic experience of a given location becomes, under the
influence of archival energy, a communicable matrix for the
construction of place.
__ At stake here was the official vision of the human landscape and
race-relations of early European Australia.
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__ In either case, the epistemological resources of the home are
indispensible to our attempts to develop a means of reading the shape
of the world, of mapping our own place onto the striated imaginary of
that world amid the cross currents of social meaning.
__ The story of modernity in Tasmania mobilises a socio-political
entity anterior to discourse, while the story of genocide as a
meta-historical debate maps the surface of a field that is primarily
rhetorical.
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Faith in our Discipline: Poetry with Sociology after time in the New
West.
__ In its mediating capacity, the archive operates in an open-ended
present, giving inflection to future orientations and retrospective
reconstructions.
__ In the case of genocide, I seek to locate my own analysis in a less
specific sense by presenting a survey and typology of the terms in
which the Tasmanian genocide has appeared across a range of
literatures.
__ Rather, they enter the agon in the company of future projections on
apparently unrelated matters like the future of old growth logging to
produce an ensembled dialogue, an echolalia that rolls the mnemonics of
Tasmania's past into the wall of sound through which the present itself
becomes audible.
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