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.
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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
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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!
the one-handed law
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.
>
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Plastic Women
Heidi Kraay
Lovely ladies' sinuous smooth backs
All hailing from neon trees
in forest fire
Open up her skin by way of surgeon's laser
Scalpel ripping open emotion
rational thought
removing each inside organ
replacing a few key limbs and brain cells, too
An index finger where her ear is
Her left ear where her hip is
Her ankle and foot
By the yet untouched hand and wrist
Bodies exchanged
like girls swapping clothing
gleefully
At a Naked Lady Party
This new perspective
A worthwhile challenge
Walking on one hand
And one foot
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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
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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
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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."
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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!
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Into the river.
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Sweet mutant fish, sweet cancered flora of our Big Tent. Mrs. Jones just ignited her second stage.
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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!
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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.
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Obama landed, honey. After the flood. For a whole sixteen hours. Time for over twenty St Krispin's Day Speeches.
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I've no idea what you are taking about.
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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.
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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!
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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!"
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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.
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My shooter is green. A green cat's eye.
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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.
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What religion have you? asks the man in the tricorner.
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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!"
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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.
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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.
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"George, what's that sound outside?"
"Why, it sounds like Jersey finally broke through!"
"Well, which is it George? The helicopter or the cyanide?"
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 -…
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__ 1973: Welcome to the Chaos Age
1973 is an open-source public research program.
 1973
is an inquiry into the dialectics of social change. It seeks to know the present through electronic framing, harvesting and reportage. It claims the electronic as a legitimate arena for the development of knowledge. The web's editing and dissemination innovations allow for the generation of an open ended research project like 1973. A research project that cannot determine finally fixed objectively couched propositions. In short a collage like a river. Can a collage be knowledge? Can a poem be knowledge? These are the questions that push me away from the university system in its hyperactive and unavoidably elitist and conservative modes.
I'd really appreciate any contributions to 1973
Send theory/poetics/history/vignettes/decisive moments to anastomooATyahooDOTcomDOT au
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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 ...
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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]
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The age of deception : nuclear diplomacy in treacherous times
by Mohamed El Baradei
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Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2011.
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The age of airpower
by Martin Van Creveld
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The violence of peace : America's wars in the age of Obama
by Stephen L Carter
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Violence as worship : religious wars in the age of globalization
by Hans G Kippenberg
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The sacred image in the age of art : Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio
by Marcia B Hall
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The Battle of Adwa : African victory in the age of empire
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Wikileaks and the age of transparency
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The Codrus Painter : iconography and reception of Athenian vases in the age of Pericles
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The advent of pluralism : diversity and conflict in the age of Sophocles
by Lauren J Apfel
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The Age of Responsibility : CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business
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Pluralistic, narcissistic, adversarial and meritocractic (opportunistic) society
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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. --------------
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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.
__
__ " 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.
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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.
__
__ 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.
__
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.
__
__ 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.
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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.
__
__ 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.
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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.
__
__ 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.
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__ A.
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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.
__
__ 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.
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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.
__
__ 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.
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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.
__
.
__
__ 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.
__
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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.
__
__ 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.
__
__ 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.
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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.
__
__ 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.
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__ But Townsley seems oddly oblivious to the ramifications.
__
__ 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.
__
__ 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.
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__ 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.
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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.
__
__ 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.
__
__ 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".
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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.
__
__ 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.
__
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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.
__
__ 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.
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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.
__
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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.
__
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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.
__
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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.
__
__
__
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.
__
__
__
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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.
__
__
__
__
__
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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 .
__
__
__
__
__
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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.
__
__
__
__
__ 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.
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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.
__
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__ 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.
__
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__ 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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__ 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.
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__ 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.
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__ 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.
__
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__ 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.
__
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__ 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.
__
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__ 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.
__
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__ 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.
__
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__ 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.
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__ 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.
__
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__ 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.
__
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__ 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.
__
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__ 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.
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__ 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.
__
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__ 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.
__
__
__ 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.
__
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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.
__
__
__ 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.
__
__
__ 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.
__
__
__ 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.
__
__
__ 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.
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__
"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.
__
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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.
__
__
__ 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.
__
__
__ 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.
__
__
__ 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.
__
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__
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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.
__
__
__ 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.
__ [.
__
__
__ 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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__ .
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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.
__
__
__ 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.
__
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__ 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.
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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.
__
__
__ 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.
__
__
__ 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.
__
__
__ 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.
__
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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.
__
__
__ 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.
__
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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.
__
__
__ (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.
__
__
__ (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.
__
__
__ 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.
__
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__
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.
__
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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).
__
__
__ 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,
Mignolo, W.
__ 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.
__
__ *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.
__ you sense her loneliness out of place there in the pine forest with
that well drilled right through the kitchen floor.
__ Europe and the Americas, the only true subjects of history, have
thought out on our behalf not only the script of colonial enlightenment
and exploitation, but also that of our anti-colonial resistance and
postcolonial misery.
__ Here Sartre shifted the emphasis of the definition away from
intention to the effects of campaigns of occupation and colonisation:
The proof of genocide, [Sartre] asserted lies in the results of policy,
not in the intentions by which it may be undertaken.
__ hopeless poet.
__ 9; Bobbi Sykes, "A Re-make: This Time with a Camera," Filmnews,
(January 1979), p.
__
References to the Tasmanian genocide are legion across a range of
discursive terrains emanating from the four corners of the world.
__ with sped up wafts of jerky vine - anything but luck can hear good
value.
__ The density and range of this work clears the way for site-based
analyses of alternative, non-European modernities that do more than
merely regather their subject matter in the net of orthodox
modernisation theory.
__ The colligation of these diverse particles into discourses takes
place when certain enunciative modalities are combined with grids of
specification mobilised at particular institutional locations to
establish a terrain of objects and practices that do not exceed the
workings of the discourse itself:
Discursive relations are not, as we can see, internal to discourse:
they do not connect concepts or words with one another; they do not
establish a deductive or rhetorical structure between propositions or
sentences.
__
__ And, anyway, many scholars now contend that the venerable tradition
of academic autonomy has been monstered to such an extent by
administrative burdens, competitive grant rounds and output
measurement, that it barely exists anymore in anything like the shape
it has traditionally taken.
__
__ In comparison to other OECD countries, the latest data available in
the year 2000, shows that Australia sat at around the middle rank
(ranked 12 out of 26
reported OECD countries from the highest to the lowest inequality) with
a Gini coefficient
of 0.
__
__
Miller, D.
__
Not unexpectedly, it is more recent American economists who allow this
fear and confusion to
surface much more overtly.
__ Haydon's film, which serves as the most significant vehicle for
Jones's particular narrativisation of colonial contact in Tasmania is
one of the foundation stones for the reading of genocide into that
history.
__ The whimsical patrician nonchalance which suffuses all of
Galbraith's writing in this instance conceals a considerable anxiety
which is stretched to
breaking point early on in the text when he argues that, in a certain
sense, the Depression
was actually a worthwhile experience, a salutary lesson on human nature
and the fatuity of
hubris:
Historians and novelists always have known that tragedy wonderfully
reveals the nature of man.
__ Kindleberger, for
instance, attempts to absolve his fellow economists of any
responsibility for the Depression by
arguing that it was at the complicated interface of theory and public
policy that it was made
inevitable.
__ new cracks opened up in the walls of the front bedroom.
__ International writers routinely compare the actions of the British
in Tasmania with the Spaniards in Mexico, the Belgians in the Congo,
the Turks in Armenia and Pol Pot in Cambodia.
__
__
Gibson, J.
__
it glowed with heat and static form
the pigs were quiet in the swill.
__ In the context of the process of development traced out in John
Stuart Mill's "On Representative Government" that makes universal
education the necessary precondition of universal suffrage, the Indian
decision to give the vote to its entire adult population upon gaining
independence stands, to Chakrabarty's eyes, as an exemplary gesture of
counter-historicism.
__ everyone wants her car.
__ i didn't say i'd studied that image of the two of you together.
__ price levels moved within a narrow band.
__ Fantasies of perfect uniformity are just that, Orwellian, Huxleyian
myths of a world where texture and colour and character have been
removed by some centrally planned, Corbusian architectonics.
__ Its purple tone at evening fall isn't like Table Mountain's shade.
__
__ But only God is perfect.
__
Despite these very great differences, I believe that a certain
analogical similarity can be
detected in the structure of these two things.
__
__ 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.
__ Naturally the psyche of no one individual economist is structured
like this,
the economic consciousness is an imaginary amalgam inductively
extrapolated from
economic discourse as a whole system.
__
__ But the opposition of birth and death is not something that can be
pushed aside as mere rhetoric.
__
__ "You cannot conquer Time," an unheeding lover is warned by the
clocks of the city.
__
In so far as it operates as a reservoir of collective significations,
the archive is also infused with the power of the super-ego, of the
internalised externality.
__
and i too feel that hollow there inside my ribs, as if i was not one,
but more, a vapour trail perhaps or tree as i in televised redoubt.
__ C.
__ For those possessed of capital, cultural and otherwise, a new
optimism is gathering momentum.
__ 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.
__
__ Animals are often ill.
__
__ 86.
__ 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 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.
__ .
__ i don't mind and didn't you sell a three hundred dollar dress just
the other day.
__
__ He is basically a recluse and the reason for that is he feels
superior to most other people but they don't seem to agree with him.
__ Hegel-Marx; Lacoue Labarthe the front of horse its withers cracked.
__ It traverses the changing physical terrains too, and in omitting so
much as it does so, suggests that any attempt to account fully for
Tasmanianness through such a survey will necessarily fail.
__
__ Whose to say, maybe his essays would have been better than his
films.
__
__ (2001) 'Rights of passage: On the liminal identity of art in the
border zone', in F.
__ borrowed amp.
__
To this end then, we come to a question.
__
This convolution has a history, of course, but pre-determination does
not necessarily constitute a defence.
__
__ There are a succession of depictions, the most notable and well
known is the tasting of the madeleine cake soaked in tea, uneven paving
stones in the courtyard of the home of the Guermantes family which
serves as catalyst for a lasting and involuntary memory.
__
__
Hoskins, J.
__ After summarising some of the violent encounters between the
Aborigines and the Europeans, Tatz concludes that:
This wasn't simply a murderous outbreak of racial hatred.
__
__
On a global scale, capital was more concentrated and predatory than
ever, and the working class had actually increased in size.
__
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.
__
In its capacity as a resource for the construction of place, the
Tasmanian archive blurs the boundaries between the mnemonic systems of
the preconscious, the conscious and the unconscious.
__
we seldom laugh because we're cold.
__
__ Over 20 years ago, Arien Mack, writing for the journal 'Social
Research', put an explanation for this subjective splitting in the
following terms.
__
__ His mind moved backwards, over his ten years of adult life.
__
For our purposes here, what is in question is how this chain is
connected up to a number of textual sites that deal specifically with
the decimation and displacement of the Aboriginal Tasmanians.
__ The multiplicitous killings of Aboriginals on the Tasmanian frontier
may have been perpetrated under the influence of motivations that we
would now understand as genocidal but that genocidality was never
articulated at the level of the letter.
__ 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.
__ the soaring, jeering, stupid crowd.
__
born without ancestors, cut
from the ground of being.
__ lines, its county signs, all contrived to magnify the things we do,
to make them more remote or give the potentates their little kingdoms.
__ what did they say at the casino and at don camillo.
__ shimmering riffs.
__
__ In that
case the surface upon which this note is preserved, the pocket-book or
sheet
of paper, is as it were a materialized portion of my mnemic apparatus,
the rest
of which I carry about with me invisible.
__ 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.
__ To cut a long story short, I contend that the urgency with which
Gaonkar endorses non-Western site-based analyses of the discrepant
careers of modernity also applies in the case of sub-national
settler-locations like Tasmania.
__ i'll buy a flat round dish for
figs and meet him at the crooked tree.
__
__ Everyone else I have already defeated.
__
__ Consider for example Latour's (1999:10) argument that 'things do not
exist without being full of people and the more modern and complicated
they are, the more people swarm through them'.
__
__ Right now, for me there is nobody I can talk to about ideas in a
specialised way - at Melbourne uni it was just endless conversations,
absolutely amazing for me coming from Hobart, but ultimately too much,
too soon.
__ my craft will not be missed.
__ The spelling "Trukanini" is favoured by the Palawa people in
Tasmania today.
__ 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).
__
__
Proust, M.
__
__
Raymond B.
__ The Aboriginal genocide, Mudrooroo suggests, is just as "important"
as the Shoah, and the sensitivity with which people approach the
attempted destruction of European Jewry should be applied to the
Aboriginal case.
__
__ (1991) 'Home A place in the world; editor's introduction' Social
Research 51 (1) 5-8.
__
__ (Eds) 1986 Introduction: commodities and the politics of value.
__ Instead, we must make do with the fading residue of this experience
preserved in the journals of Tasman, François Peron, Jacques
Labilliardière and Nicholas Baudin.
__
__ .
__ and then some kind of polyphonic chore.
__
__ .
__
__ It can coordinate and direct our orientations, inform our opinions,
give content to snap summations and imbue instant impressions with a
decisive valency: I hate you/I like you; I grew here/You flew here;
You're like me/You're not like me; I belong here/You have no right to
be here.
__ Would Windschuttle's livid, lucid, revisionist prose finally give us
just cause to remove the "black armbands", the hair shirts of
postcolonial shame, that we have worn since becoming cognizant that the
processes of land acquisition and pastoral development in this country
were anything but a peaceable affair? I say face-value because there is
another, more obscured because epistemological, dimension along which
the Windschuttle intervention spins the resources of history into its
novel web.
__
the poem you found at the end of the warren shoving an Algerian from
his nest of plastic seats- when you turned him over he looked like a
2nd empire tortoise not some victim/symbol of gaulish bloody mindedness
half-coherent spray about the great novel of Martello towers, bowls of
broken bread, breast milk, sodomy and astroturf.
__ At the same time, however, historical actors went about their
business at the various stages of Tasmania's socio-cultural
transformation with an orientation to the future that was nothing if
not self-consciously modernising.
__ But as with any social organism, the metastases of dis-ease are
heavily localised.
__ The mantle of victimhood could be interiorised into the narrative
voice to lay bare the savagery of the invading Europeans.
__
__ .
__
__ There is, however, another direction in which the semantic energies
generated by the term cosmopolitan take us.
__
__ 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.
__ Dorothy Hewitt, Bobbin Up (London: Virago, 1985).
__
__ Male rhesus macaques sacrificed fluid for the opportunity to view
female perinea and the faces of high-status monkeys but required fluid
overpayment to view the faces of low-status monkeys.
__
__ " But even now, I run hot and cold with people, sometimes it clicks
and the relationships are sweet and easy.
__ 'It was', he writes, 'the only text that he remembers in no sense as
a
labour but as a joy' (12).
__ In other words, in the modernity stream, I do the work of
abstraction, framing a series of engagements with the problematics of
modernity as instantiations of modernity in the Tasmanian archive.
__ " From the angle I take here, the poles of literal materiality and
spectral evanescence are not irrevocably sundered.
__ During this period, the economy remained primarily agricultural, but
a mineral boom on the West Coast provided a miniaturised version of the
Victorian gold rushes, halting the population outflow and restoring a
level of confidence to local business interests, particularly those
based in Launceston.
__
89
when you returned, i told you what i'd done; the cake, the cds, the
books.
__
__ 195.
__
__ 2000, da capo press
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others -
George orwell , Animal Farm.
__ Yet they are not relations exterior to discourse, relations that
might limit it, or impose certain forms upon it, or force it, in
certain circumstances, to state certain things.
__ i shuffle and arch at the shoulders.
__ The fictional adjustments of history at play here are notable:
Walyer was not captured until the middle of December 1830, Punch did
not join the party for travel by river and Robinson never met the
Lieutenant Governor in Launceston.
__
But the metaphor of the hammer should not be misunderstood.
__ The offer being made to the Tasmanian electorate was essentially
utilitarian.
__
31
this knowledge that i have is missed by lights and curried crowds, they
fight my truth, which shrinks so quick, the turtles head, i claim no
claim, although i know the animals.
__
__ 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.
__ mixed with wet.
__
they live and breathe and climb the stairs and never know which way is
up.
__
__ 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.
__ Robert Manne, "The Tragedy is Compounded by the Absurdity," Sydney
Morning Herald, (25 August 2003).
__
__ What is clear from Ginzburg's work and from Greenblatt's too is that
the past is another country, and that they do do things differently
there.
__ waiting for the grant and vision, hoping for a crowd.
__ and northern hunger,
crescent, tiled stretch and soul and spoon of whack.
__ contingent honeymoon when all the lithuanians chip in.
__ It is held firm, I wish to contend, by the agency of the letter, by
the power of the signifier.
__ Society becomes the sum totality of individual economic actors
mobilising to maximise utility.
__ 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.
__
__
Harré, R.
__ rich outsiders there to exploit the natural resources, to add jobs,
to build the place.
__
The recourse that is made to the tropology of the Holocaust thus marks
an attempt to fill out the empty form of a witness-less event with a
content that has been deterritorialised from its original position in a
parallel historical discourse.
__ 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.
__ " Calling the Tasmanian extirpation a "Final Solution", threatens to
drown out the fragile mnemonic echoes of the colonial event, but it
also stands as an alternative means of re-enforcing its status as
genocide. __
The radical recontextualisation of the archive that Michel Foucault
achieves in The Archaeology of Knowledge is more a blasphemy than an
apostasy in light of this contested history.
__ If the archive exists to preserve, it is also the object of a
preservation.
__
The history of the archive in Foucault scholarship is characterised by
effacement and elision.
__ In pursuit of property titles to legitimate his incursions, he
instructed his agents to fabricate the legal documents when they
couldn't be found.
__ Even though historians have long held an interest in the mechanics
of the archive, the "profusion of forums in which historians are
joining archivists in new conversations about documentary evidence,
record keeping and archival theory" marks a decisive moment in the
life-cycle of academic and professional historiography.
__ Louis XIV, he points out, made claims on German territory through an
active intervention in the archive.
__ Under the weight of this dizzying difference, the coherence of the
archive threatens to give way.
__ It appears to collapse temporality in its pervasive synchrony,
preserving the mark of historicity only as an encoding of the following
kind: statement content/date filed.
__ ] The archive, particularly when understood as a depositary of
unpublished records and documents, as opposed to the broadly diffused
and widely available print "culture", promises what other scholars do
not have, the uniquely juicy and justifying tidbit.
__ Hypothetically speaking, Tasmania might have been discovered and
settled without modernity - it was claimed by the Aboriginal people in
this way after all - but the facts of history show us that it was.
__ Is the very trope of Tasmania a burdensome agent of continuity that
interferes with a more direct engagement with the particularities of
given statements? Or should it be made the gravitational centre for the
construction of a discrete discursive formation? The positing of
discourse as a new modality for the organisation of statements tacitly
implies that the statements with which it deals will be pre-discursive,
that the allegiance to prior unities will be allegiances to
non-discursive formations like the book or the oeuvre.
__ The Premier of Tasmania, for instance, is endowed with a right to
speak about the State as a unified object.
__
Derrida's re-reading of psychoanalysis as a science of the archive; as
a science of memory and of forgetting; as a science of the impression,
invites further revisions of the concept at its centre.
__ The Tasmanian archive is a metaphorical as well as a substantive
repository of collective significations, but its most telling attribute
is its productivity.
__
If the dominant connotation of the signifier "archive" for this kind of
historical endeavour is a resoundingly singular "truth", the existence
of a multiplicity of archives reminds us that the referent to which the
signifier is orientated remains stubbornly plural.
__ It is held firm, I wish to contend, by the agency of the letter, by
the power of the signifier.
__ Here a moment of pre-discursivity is inserted into the history of
the emergence of statements in the process of their very
materialisation.
__ They act through many conduits - the people who created them, the
functionaries who managed them, the archivists who selected them for
preservation and make them available for use, and the researchers who
use them in constructing accounts of the past.
__ Disparate discursive particles like the casual disparaging remark
made by a tourist about the weather in Launceston or the fully
developed oeuvre of James McQueen are consigned to the Tasmanian
archive on the grounds that they share a constative predicate: the
island and socius of Tasmania.
__
If its contractors and agents are shaken out of solipsism by the
communal character of the archive, it is important to remember that it,
too, never works alone.
__ A physical location or assemblage thereof acquires the character of
place when the experience and memory of that location or assemblage of
locations are rendered symbolizable and communicable under the
influence of archival energy.
__ A statement about Tasmania as site of depopulation is part of a
social-demographic discourse.
__ These twin histories take the form of a tight interlocking chain
whose strands cannot be separated from one another without placing the
structural integrity of the whole object in jeopardy.
__ Immersed in Adda at the pub, safe in the company of trusted kinsmen,
however, we sense that the archive speaks through us, that we are
nothing but mediums for its refracted power.
__ On Foucault's reading, the archive operates between the langue and
the corpus.
__ Archival studies, as Wim Van Mierlo points out in his work on James
Joyce, knows its limits, understands its vocation and moves confidently
within the parameters of a clearly defined research program:
Archival studies [is] any kind of research that uses documentary
materials other than [the author's] works, whether they are [.
__ Utterances that fail to connect up to already consolidated clusters
will circulate for a limited time before disappearing from the archive,
leaving traces perhaps, but not necessarily making it any easier for
similar enunciations to join the permanent ranks of the established
characterisations.
__ The Tasmanian archive differs from the physical archive when the
latter is understood as the depository of a community's textual
remainders, but, as I have attempted to demonstrate, it shares some of
the features of its homonym described in the conceptual assemblage
constructed by Foucault in The Archaeology of Knowledge and Derrida in
Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression.
__ If we accept that there are plenty of things we aren't going to
learn about modernity from the Tasmanian archive, we must also accept
that the story of modernity cannot wholly contain the textual traces
that circulate around this thing we call Tasmania.
__ In this regard then, Foucault's desire to remove statements entirely
from their loci of continuity seems overly ambitious:
The systematic erasure of all given unities enable us first of all to
restore to the statement the specificity of its occurrence, and to show
that discontinuity is one of those great accidents that create cracks
not only in the geology of history but also in the simple fact of the
statement; it emerges in its historical irruption; what we try to
examine is the incision that it makes, that irreducible - and often
very tiny - emergence.
__ However banal it may be, however unimportant its consequences may
appear to be, however quickly it may be forgotten after its appearance,
however little heard or badly deciphered we may suppose it to be, a
statement is always an event that neither the language (langue) nor the
meaning can quite exhaust.
__ Unities like the book and the oeuvre and conceptual categories like
influence, evolution, tradition and spirit, give way, in Foucault's
formulation, to configurations of statements characterised by
dispersion.
__ Looking through the optic of modernity and modernisation highlights
certain clusters of textuality within it - statements, stories, and
collective feelings about the Hydro-Electric Commission for example -
but it leaves others in the dark.
__ On the one hand, it seems to designate the set of rules that govern
the generation of statements.
__ This book borrows this under-appreciated theorisation of the way
discourse and the extra-linguistic world come to be mutually imbricated
and uses it as the foundation for a fairly traditional conception of
the archive.
__ Retention is not a key here, fetishistic collection is placed well
and truly on the back-burner.
__
Ann Laura Stoler's reading of the archival turn in post-colonial
historiography eloquently summarises the functional ontology of the
archive as I wish to deploy it in this book.
__
This opening foray problematises the textual approach taken by
Foucault.
__ The speech acts and representational ventures through which it
becomes manifest rehearse the function of the archive in its
traditional sense through their implication in processes of
multi-dimensional subjection.
__ They are privileged moments in the history of Tasmania, but they are
also effects and component elements of abstract social logics that are
nothing other than the synthetic amalgam of isolated episodes of
precisely this kind.
__ In The Archaeology of Knowledge, Foucault approaches the concept of
the archive through an analysis of its constituent parts: discourse and
the statement.
__ But the archive is also that which determines that all these things
said do not accumulate endlessly in an amorphous mass, nor are they
inscribed in an unbroken linearity, nor do they disappear at the mercy
of chance external accidents […] Far from being that which unifies
everything that has been said in the great murmur of a discourse, far
from being only that which ensures that we exist in the midst of
preserved discourse, it is that which differentiates discourses in
their multiple existence and specifies them in their own duration.
__ But it is also to identify modernity and its cognate processes and
objects - cultural temporality, transformational thresholds, uneven
development, imperial historicist time - as overdetermining the
narratives Tasmanians tell about their homeland.
__ Unless you count a retrospective mourning, the loss one feels on
gaining something one might have gained earlier, the addition of
Baudin's auto-text to the Tasmanian archive is something akin to pure
plenitude.
__ The proclamations of recent incumbent Jim Bacon on the topic of the
"New Tasmania" provide a classic example of the way an asymmetrically
distributed power of description can be put to the end of producing a
concrete entity.
__ The rules of normal language, the conventions of realism and the
unconscious fear of schizophrenic word-salad deny us individual control
over the archive.
__ Statements that construct Tasmania as an economy might be removed
from the context of the knowledge regime that activates them but if we
were to regroup them as part of a Tasmanian discourse, wouldn't we need
still to have recourse to economics to give them any meaning? Operating
from within the confines of Foucault's constellation, it is impossible
to diagnose which unities should be exploded and which should be
re-constituted.
__ .
__ He complicates this schema, however, by claiming that the archive
actually describes the "systems of statements", the sets of rules and
principles "not superposable" to discourse that enable us to deal with
statements as either events or things:
The archive is first the law of what can be said, the system that
governs the appearance of statements as unique events.
__ Descriptions of landscape or culture might be uncannily familiar,
just off-target or wildly misrepresentative.
__ The sufficient conditions for a diagnosis and discussion of genocide
in Tasmania are the perpetration of a series of material historical
crimes and the existence of a set of discursive principles such as the
UN convention on the matter.
__ These relations characterise not the language used by discourse, not
the circumstances in which it is deployed, but discourse itself as a
practice.
__ Verne Harris comes close to making the decisive move into thinking
the dissemination of archival energy as a kind of
language-speaking-the-subject in "The Archival Sliver: Power, Memory,
and Archives in South Africa" when he challenges the orthodoxy of
referential understandings of the archive.
__ But those recalled impressions, the background against which these
texts are silhouetted, are, themselves, not completely atextual.
__ A statement about Tasmania as wilderness getaway is part of a
tourism discourse.
__ From another angle, however, the statements that appear in Island
and colour the speeches of the Premier are always already discursive in
so far as they are organised generically into coherent forms of
expression with clear historical precedents and familiar modes of
address.
__ The key here is the function derived from the literal definition of
the term "consignation", in Derrida's eyes, the most basic and
essential function of an archive:
By consignation, we do not only mean, in the ordinary sense of the
word, the act of assigning residence or of entrusting so as to put into
reserve […] but here the act of consigning through gathering together
signs.
__ The archive is thus the point of translation that turns the
incommensurability of historical fact and language into the difference
of historical discourse.
__ To argue for a re-reading of Tasmanian history through the category
of modernity is to respond to the contemporary state of the Tasmanian
archive, particularly as it intersects with the text and talk of
everyday Australian nationalism.
__ Derrida is drawing an inference from a problem of pragmatics, then,
when he claims that the concept of the archive threatens to fall away
under the weight of
the trouble of secrets, of plots, of clandestiness, of half-private,
half-public conjurations, always at the unstable limit between public
and private, between the family, the society, and the State, between
the family and an intimacy even more private than the family, between
oneself and oneself.
__ In the space between this singularity and dispersal, the signified
of the archive seems to offer a semantic stability.
__ This version of the archive doesn't perform the anamnestic function
of retaining physical documentation so that historical truths can be
reconstructed a posteriori, indeed, its enabling condition is its
inexhaustibility.
__ Yet they are not relations exterior to discourse, relations that
might limit it, or impose certain forms upon it, or force it, in
certain circumstances, to state certain things.
__ The Tasmanian archive as I imagine it, does act as a storehouse of
cultural memory, a reservoir of narrative resources that can be drawn
upon by social actors in their active production of place even as that
function of containment operates on a symbolic rather than a
substantive level.
__ Where, we might ask, is the apotheosis of this idée fixe to be
found? In novels like Tom Gilling's The Sooterkin? In the garrulous
banter at an interstate pub? In public policy discourse like the Nixon
Report or the quarterly assessments of the state's economy compiled by
Access Economics? In sociological and demographic discourse about
migration and ageing? In a generalised inferiority complex or habitus
actualised and carried round by the citizens of the "Apple Isle"?
In truth it exists in all and none of these places.
__ The archive in this sense eternally recurs:
Because the archive, if this word or this figure can be stabilized so
as to take on a signification, will never be either memory or anamnesis
as spontaneous, alive and internal experience.
__ ] actual archives in libraries, facsimile reproduction of
manuscripts or any other material source that is part of the general
exegesis of or contributes to a contextual understanding of [the
author's] writing.
__ Alternatively, we could seek to identify an exteriority to the
archive in its role as the system of enunciability and the system of
functioning for concrete statements.
__ On permanent stand-by, ready to be mobilised in an instant, the
troping of Tasmania as partially modern is a memory-weapon.
__ Here, the ordering of terms moves by simple enumeration:
statement-discourse-archive.
__ But even if Tasmania's role in the story of the first modernity is
provisional, inessential and ontologically asymmetrical - modernity was
a necessary condition for the institution of Tasmania, Tasmania was not
a necessary condition for the institution of modernity - the regime of
association that binds it with the emerging conditions of the modern
age is built of more substantial material than mere coincidence.
__ The Tasmanian archive overlaps with a range of other archives.
__ As Frances Dolan writes:
In a research proposal, or a dinner party conversation, or a book
treatment, a bid to legitimacy as a scholar creating new knowledge can
best be bolstered by claiming to have found something no one else has
found - to need a trip to the archive rather than to plug away dismally
and unromantically with microfilm.
__ a collection of esp.
__ Exchange for two reasons, first because the archive always looks
full, and second, because a text that is taken from the archive never
has to leave.
__ The rule that it follows is that the textual material shared by
these institutions can be read dialectically.
__ But a rider is attached to this rebuff that leaves a gap for a
problematically material object like the Tasmanian archive.
__ In the case of statements about Tasmania, however, discursivity is
already inscribed into the texts themselves.
__ It gathers together statements of disparate institutional and
disciplinary origin, enunciations of different length, timbre, cadence
and genre.
__
The concept of the archive offers a tentative starting point for the
complex task of unravelling the vexed relationship between a place and
its discursive evocations.
__ The argument being put here takes as its object the field of
intercession where the Tasmanian archive meets and co-mingles with the
archives of modernity and genocide.
__ For a start, there are a multiplicity of archives tied to particular
"cultures, societies and civilisations", archives that offer an
unavoidable confrontation with a privileged region that is
at once close to us, and different from our present existence, it is
the border of time that surrounds our presence, which overhangs it,
delimits us […] its threshold of existence is established by the
discontinuity that separates us from what we can no longer say, and
from that which falls outside our discursive practice; it begins with
the outside of our own language.
__ C H A P T E R 2
Looking through the Archive (of the Archive)
Do we already have at our disposition a concept of the archive? A
concept of the archive which deserves this name? Which is one and whose
unity is assured? Have we ever been assured of the homogeneity, of the
consistency, of the univocal relationship of any concept to a term or
to such a word as "archive"?
(Jacques Derrida, 1995)
For our purposes, being in Tasmania is being-with-the-archive because
Tasmania as a place could not exist without the archive.
__ Here, I argue, the concept of the archive presents as a means for
moving forward.
__
In the case of an examination of statements that refer to Tasmania, we
are dealing not only with the irreducible specificity of the
occurrence, but also with discursive traces that remain inscribed in
each statement after it has been sundered from its locus of continuity
qua discourse.
__
Perhaps the archive is less trustworthy than we have been led to
believe.
__ The events whose narrativisation I am examining resound in two
registers.
__ And like all weapons the possibility of friendly fire poses itself
with every pull of the trigger.
__ The Australian Oxford Dictionary describes it simply as "1.
__
The outside to which Foucault is referring here remains equivocal.
__ " We perform our speculative bri-colage in the greasepaints of
desperation while Stoler's archive-as-subject shouts directions from
stage-left.
__ Consignation aims to co-ordinate a single corpus, in a system or a
synchrony in which all the elements articulate the unity of an ideal
configuration.
__ Beginning with an etymology of the term in question, Derrida opens
out a terrain in which archive marks out not only the temporally
originary, the sequentially prior, but also stands for commandment.
__ The idea of the archive, of course, is not in its everyday usage an
equivocal one.
__
In so far as it operates as a reservoir of collective significations,
the archive is also infused with the power of the super-ego, of the
internalised externality.
__ Is it enough then, that we should ignore the regularities that bind
unemployment figures for Tasmania with unemployment figures for
Victoria in the name of an alternative regularity discernible through
the figuration of place? If we are to retain the discursive stamp
pressed onto the multiplicity of statements that concern Tasmania we
require an alternative ordering principle that does not require the
erasure of that meaningful discursivity.
__ .
__ At one level, Foucault seems to be designating an extra-discursive
field with the category, a container capable of holding an array of
discrete discourses in place.
__ The colligation of these diverse particles into discourses takes
place when certain enunciative modalities are combined with grids of
specification mobilised at particular institutional locations to
establish a terrain of objects and practices that do not exceed the
workings of the discourse itself:
Discursive relations are not, as we can see, internal to discourse:
they do not connect concepts or words with one another; they do not
establish a deductive or rhetorical structure between propositions or
sentences.
__ These discourses consist of an innumerable number of statements of
which only the smallest fraction go toward constructing the object we
call Tasmania.
__ However, in emphasising the role of conscious praxis on the part of
archival agents, a portion of this radicalising charge is subsumed into
a liberalist voluntarism:
A notion common in archival discourse is that archives reflect, or
provide an image of, process, the event, the action.
__ Instead, a principle of self-organisation is ascribed to the archive
so that statements that relate in specific ways to other statements
will tend to form points of concentration, clusters or nodes of dense
amalgamation after the fashion of an ovum receiving a sperm.
__ " Again, in the case of genocide in Tasmania, the sea-change that
saw the eclipse of the "extinction thesis" as a legitimate speaking
position can be read as reflecting a transformation in the structure of
the archive in line with "objective" discoveries by historians of
Aboriginal cultural continuity.
__ The archive that donates its energies to the imagination of place in
Tasmania, operates at one remove from the materiality of the
storehouse.
__ We go to it for clarification.
__ In keeping with its dual character as law of enunciation and
compendium of enunciated, the borders that surround it are porous and
provisional.
__ Its sonar fragments bounce around the echo chamber of the archive,
its psychic charge electrifies a system of myth.
__
The explosion of unities into statements and their re-configuration as
discourses performs at least a dual function.
__ New additions to the archive are continually being made, while older
ones drop off the face of the earth never to be seen again.
__ .
__ The dwelling, this place where they dwell permanently, marks this
institutional passage from the private to the public, which does not
always mean from the secret to the non-secret.
__ The diaries of Baudin are a case in point.
__ The very diversity of the archive, while threatening its own
internal cohesion, is precisely what makes the place to which it is wed
such a richly variegated entity.
__ The archive captures the flow of the phenomenal reality that makes
up the first half of this equation and converts it into matter
conducive to articulation in ensemble with the properly textual
lineaments of the UN convention.
__ We are not puppets of the archive, we can improvise at the edges of
the production, but this doesn't alter the fact that, for the most
part, the scripting of our (sub)national passions is a fait accompli.
__
In Archive Fever, Derrida examines the collection of Freud's papers
stored at his family home in London, a textual resource that fits the
conventional definition of the archive.
__ .
__ Its constitution is thus of the order of the hand-me-down, deferring
the quick fix of détournement, but carrying over only a minimal
originality in its unfolding.
__ The archive encroaches with the force of Marx's history, it "weighs
like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
__
In its capacity as a resource for the construction of place, the
Tasmanian archive blurs the boundaries between the mnemonic systems of
the preconscious, the conscious and the unconscious.
__
The common object - literary, material, experiential - that holds the
texts and statements of my own corpus together is Tasmania.
__ Certainly we have to hand an innumerable number of individual
statements that present a principle of regularity in their mobilisation
of the signifier "Tasmania" and in their contribution to the
construction of an object that goes by that proper name.
__ When we speak or write about Tasmania we usher it into being even
though its existence is what makes possible our enunciations.
__ Elsewhere in The Archaeology, though, it is made clear that the
regularity of statements that enable us to bundle them into larger
provisional unities is never external to the statements themselves.
__ To a certain extent this neglect is understandable.
__ An analysis of the discursive figurations of Tasmania is not simply
an exercise in elucidating the way the place is constructed by texts
because the place has a presence anterior to those representations.
__ […] if archival records [do] reflect reality [however], they do so
complicitly, and in a deeply fractured and shifting way.
__ the place where these are kept".
__
The peculiar seduction of the concept of the archive for thinking about
a place like Tasmania lies in its capacity to open discursive fields
into regions that connect language with other dimensions of being.
__ The new perspective on Baudin's leadership enriches the Tasmanian
archive but it does not impoverish its French equivalent.
__ When we guide foreign visitors around the scenic sights of Hobart we
act as self-conscious Cartesian subjects mobilising narratives for
strategic purposes.
__ The complex nature of Tasmania's ontology derives from the
impossible plenitude of its archival articulations.
__ This field-work, however, sets the scene for a typically
deconstructive reading that tackles issues that slide more toward the
epistemological end of the philosophical spectrum than the ontological.
__ Archival debt can always be paid by someone else, at another time.
__ He identifies the constitution of the latter in the structural
collapse of the regimes of continuity that tend to be taken as given in
conventional historiography.
__ Conceptual form and pragmatic function are in harmony in the body of
the archive.
__ In the case of modernity, I am not suggesting that Tasmania was
excluded from the European world system until a renewal of faith in the
human senses - the "recovery of nerve" in Peter Gay's terms - had
worked itself up into a generalised social orientation, any more than I
am contending that modernity could go no further until it had dealt
with the "problem" of Tasmania.
__ A statement about Tasmania as potential resource for the generation
of hydro-electricity is part of an engineering and civil works
discourse.
__
The Tasmanian archive is potentially an ontic substance in search of a
new concept, but that conceptual novelty is structured after the
fashion of a Derridean différance.
__ One can only imagine the horror with which historians would greet
the news that this sacred trove of unimpeachable truths was one big
joke, written, like the official history of Van Diemen's Land in
Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish, to conceal the state of
affairs it purports to describe.
__ Additionally, there are certain institutional sites and privileged
subject positions that act as loci for the dissemination of such a
discourse.
__ The skin that surrounds the statements that carry Tasmania through
the universe of language refuses to be sloughed off as we break the
discursive unities that hold them into their constituent elements.
__ On the one hand, it allows us to examine the way particles of
language operate as individuated forces, moving between discursive
formations and opening up an array of variegated effects.
__
Stoler goes a step further than Harris in reading the archival turn in
historiography as a bildungsroman dedicated to the description of the
ontogenesis and phylogenesis of "the archive-as-subject".
__ If conceptual form follows practical function, then the idea of the
archive might also reveal a plasticity denied it by commonsense
definitions.
__ It is not only the traditional consignatio, that is the written
proof, but what all consignation begins by presupposing.
__ The archive is a complex category whose exposition is condensed into
only two and half pages of The Archaeology of Knowledge, two and half
pages that sweep the reader up in a whirlpool of involution and
innovation.
__ Theft without deprivation, because nothing is lost and nothing is
given in return, at least not now, not yet, and not necessarily by the
one who takes.
__ The act of consignation it performs is also a kind of theft, or in a
softer language, of exchange.
__ They do not act by themselves.
__ For those with a felt memory of Tasmania, archival articulations
that take the island as their object might augment and enrich, or
undermine and detract from, a real set of experiences.
__ It is thus, in this domiciliation, in this house arrest, that
archives take place.
__ Identifiable with neither the basic rules governing the construction
of sentences, nor with the totality of utterances circulated through a
discursive space, the archive defines "a level of practice that causes
a multiplicity of statements to emerge as so many regular events, as so
many things to be dealt with and manipulated.
__ The substantive ontology of its objects has to be performed and
enacted.
__ Representation, visual, literary and aural, informs our experience
of the world in a dialectical fashion and we should resist the urge to
consign textuality to the place marked out for it in, for example, the
still influential Platonic theory of aesthetics.
__ So much so that it is almost impossible to distinguish between the
two.
__ But neither is it a matter of comparing the discursive or imaginary
Tasmania to the actual Tasmania, of adjudicating the accuracy of
various representations and of setting up hierarchies of veracity
around those judgements.
__ The holding function of the archive drifts away from the plane of
materiality in Foucault's work, but the power of delimitation he grants
it echoes the hegemonic characterisations.
__ We seek it to quiet our doubts.
__ Yet a discussion of this kind is predicated on such a distinction.
__ Even as we subordinate a series of events that happened in Tasmania
in the early-19th century to the glittering narrative of modernity, we
must remember that the Tasmanian archive exceeds the limits of
Modernity Studies.
__ Figuration is not the rendering of a simulation or copy of a real
world which is itself a poor imitation of a perfect world of forms.
__ The archive is thus a naming principle that combines with a capacity
to register a housed location, the residence of the archons, "those who
commanded":
Even in their guardianship or their hermeneutic tradition, the archives
could do neither without substrate nor without residence.
__ Its materiality is thus of a phantasmatic order, becoming as Derrida
puts it a "spectral a priori: neither present nor absent in the flesh,
neither visible nor invisible, a trace always referring to another
whose eyes can never be met.
__ 2.
__ The idea of the archive as an agent of effectivity is foreshadowed
in Foucault's formulation but it is seldom taken up by other scholars
who remain content instead to problematise its truth status and to lay
bare its imbrication in networks of organisational power.
__ The point to remember is that none of these archives cancels the
others out.
__ __ " Its efficacy is limited, however, by the positivism of its
epistemology.
__ Two alternative methodological approaches to place that seem better
equipped to deal with the fuzzy logics of affect, familiarity and
belonging are cultural landscape discourse and the psychology of place
attachment.
__ And yet, as I walk out of my flat, into the hilly streets of West
Hobart and, looking down toward the choppy whitecaps in Storm Bay, feel
the wind in my face, I am struck by the acuity of the marketing mantra
that Chakrabarty repeats in Provincializing Europe: "India is
different" "India is different" "India is different".
__ There is old money and new money, drug addiction and violent crime,
corruption and community spirit, pride of place and generalised
self-loathing, yuppie suburbs and welfare suburbs.
__ Rather, the approach I have taken has been to connect up disparate
events from the history of Tasmania in terms of the way they intersect
with the tropes, logics, strategies, hopes and deformations laid out in
the highly contested and fraught theoretical sub-field of Modernity
Studies.
__
This concept of place stripped of its intrinsic characteristics now
begins to resemble the category of site, a name derived from an empty,
holding function that is basically characterless.
__ The workers of Raymond Williams's Wales, who left their villages and
descended upon the industrial cities in their thousands were struck by
the shapeless uniformity of the "satanic mills" in which they found
themselves.
__ The two levels at which the modernity stream of the book operates
are historical actuality and synthetic theoretical discourse.
__
The Tasmanian archive is an "imaginary" materiality constituted by a
universe of texts.
__ What is happening to Tasmania as a place, for instance, when a
student in Frank Chalk's History and Sociology of Genocide class at
Concordia University is presented with a slide show about the Tasmanian
genocide? The archival articulations mobilised in Chalk's class are not
unique or novel - they refer in orthodox fashion to commonly held
historical knowledge: the mission of George Augustus Robinson, the
Black Line and so on - but the students introduced to Tasmania in this
fashion will probably not be in possession of any other information
about the island, whether it be first hand experience of the place or
snatches of alternative data from the archive.
__ For Casey, the antidote to this loss of place, is to be found in
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's notion of smooth space, the
opposite and pharmakon for striated or gridded space and the location
of the "local absolute".
__ Blue sky against grey rock against the white matchsticks of
burnt-out gum.
__ But even if the historical actors who played a part in the various
phases and stagings of the modernisation of Tasmania had not read Tony
Giddens, they were still possessed of the spirit of improvement and
progress, the certainty that the present was superior to the past
because of its very potential, that we now identify as
characteristically modern.
__ Thus the agency of the signifier "modernity" is of quite a different
character to that of the signifier "genocide".
__ At the same time, however, historical actors went about their
business at the various stages of Tasmania's socio-cultural
transformation with an orientation to the future that was nothing if
not self-consciously modernising.
__
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C H A P T E R 4
Of Contrapuntal Trajectories 1: Genocide
The debate around genocide in Tasmania that swept across the opinion
pages of the Australian quality press in the wake of the publication of
Keith Windschuttle's first volume of The Fabrication of Aboriginal
History can be re-read in the context of this book as an argument about
whether a signifier should be allowed to circulate through an archive.
__ Richard Flanagan has observed that Hobart is the only capital city
in Australia where all the major streets in the CBD open themselves out
onto vistas of nature.
__ In other words, in the modernity stream, I do the work of
abstraction, framing a series of engagements with the problematics of
modernity as instantiations of modernity in the Tasmanian archive.
__ Fast food franchises, shopping malls, video stores, multiplex
cinemas, the transnational education system, the internet, all feature
in Tasmanian life in much the same way as they do for citizens in
Sweden, France, England or New Zealand.
__ "Robinson's pleas were ignored", she writes, "and thus genocide was
sanctioned.
__ Although the title of her thesis suggests a generalised diagnosis of
genocide across the entirety of post-invasion Tasmania, in the body of
the text she restricts her discussion of it to an indictment of
Governor Arthur's refusal to act on advice given by George Augustus
Robinson that the Aborigines exiled to Flinders Island seemed doomed to
extinction.
__ In the case of both modernity and genocide, the actual occurrence of
the events concerned was not coded in terms of the two signifiers being
examined.
__
Desailly's usage of genocide stands as the first example of one of four
different models for its deployment.
__ The concept operates, rather, at a metahistorical level as an
historiographical tool for re-reading disparate incidents and tying
them together into a larger totality.
__ Because the experience of place invokes all five senses,
phenomenology of the kind delineated by Maurice Merleau-Ponty might
offer a way forward.
__ In this sense, the archive ran on ahead of history and laid down the
foundations for its achievement.
__ Pure loss.
__ In this context, place and archive are indissociable.
__ Perhaps, even more forebodingly, philosophy has become one of those
vacant, deracinated sites, that Casey so obviously abhors.
__ This new word, coined by the author to denote an old practice in its
modern development, is made from the ancient Greek word genos (race,
tribe) and the Latin cide (killing), thus corresponding in its
formation to such words as tyrannicide, homocide, infanticide, etc.
__ Becoming modern was a fully formulated goal that merged archival
understandings, readings of the past, and articulated premonitions of
the future with material historical action.
__ If that coastal space is to be understood as part of an island
called Tasmania, furthermore, higher order narratives must be accessed.
__ Mt Wellington crowns the south-west angle, its jutting, brooding,
snow-capped bulk cuts off a quadrant of the sky and names the visual
field that it fills.
__ The cubism of city architecture, steel and glass, is melded with the
uncertainty of natural form, the crenellated, broken, shunted shapes of
"The Mountain" cut a hole in the sky and neutralise the straightness of
the built environment.
__ It is also important to recognise that the archivality of
enunciations is not always apparent to the voicer of the articulation.
__ Alongside its fascination with abstractions like cogito, spirit,
monad, being and categorical imperative, institutionalised philosophy
possesses a built-in fondness for the universality of Newtonian space
which is why Novalis described it as a "homesickness […] the urge to be
at home everywhere.
__ Isn't Tasmania different too? I think.
__ Perhaps Tasmania is different for me because I am Tasmanian, because
I grew up here, on these streets, with these parks and buildings and
museums and waterways.
__ Casey provides a useful list of the basic attributes of place, most
of which, he argues, were lost to the category after its subsumption
into the concept of space:
If space and place are both utterly relational, a sheer order of
co-existing points, then they will not retain any of the inherent
properties ascribed to place by ancient and early modern philosophers:
properties of encompassing, holding, sustaining, gathering, situating.
__ " From Aristotle's intervention onwards, Casey argues, the category
of place was hijacked by the category of space so that the zone of
non-local non-particular infinite extension came to be the container
that surrounded objects and localities.
__ This is especially so in the case of contributions to the archive
which emanate from outside the state.
__ In so far as this study traces the career of two signifiers in their
passage through the archive, an asymmetrical relation can be
identified.
__ In a very real sense, the events do not have an ontology entirely
removed from the archive but the necessity to make room for place,
space and the concrete, demands that we recognise a non-archival
dimension to Tasmanian history.
__ By "genocide" we mean the destruction of a race or of an ethnic
group.
__ For the latter, place is where a thing is, it is what surrounds a
thing so that in Ed Casey's words "its inner surface and the outer
surface of the thing contained are strictly contiguous.
__ Every configuration of built form and natural line, every department
store and clothing shop and cafe, names itself with its own mix of
colour and design, marking itself off from those that surround it.
__ But the emphasis placed by writers on the homogeneous heterogeneity
of the late-capitalist world is really just a nostalgic response, a
reflexive reaction to the effacement of a mythologised particularity
that is nothing more than an agrarian afterglow.
__ Which brings us back to the way in which a reading of genocide in
the Tasmanian archive more closely fits the model of discursively
oriented archival analysis.
__ Once again the Colonial Government showed its overriding interest
was to maintain peaceful British settlement even if this involved the
extinction of a race.
__ But phenomenological approaches privilege sight, smell, touch, taste
and hearing and subordinate legislative orders, jurisdictional
embodiment and cultural narratives far too unequivocally to really
suffice.
__ Obliteration of otherness.
__ The questions that need to be asked about these contributions to the
Tasmanian archive turn around the motivation for the deployment of the
term and the work done by the term in its various contexts.
__ The latter offers positive possibilities because it establishes at
its base the importance of thinking about our relationship to place
rather than positing place as something distinct from human
inhabitation.
__
This convolution has a history, of course, but pre-determination does
not necessarily constitute a defence.
__ It is the linguistic lineaments of the archive that allow us to weld
these rough-hewn perceptions into a coherent, communicable whole.
__ Space is the empty void, while place is where you hang your hat.
__ " Traditionally, writing on place has tended to take one of two
forms: impressionistic, literary evocations of particular places, or
theoretical, abstract adumbrations of place in general.
__ To make this clearer, we need to emphasise the splitting of event
and discourse that this study is built around.
__ " Unlike place, the category of space lends itself to just the kind
of abstruse argumentation that continental philosophy, in particular,
has made its stock-in-trade.
__ Like Williams climbing in the bus above the Welsh valley where he
was raised, how could a Tasmanian resist being struck by the very
closeness and familiarity of home? Home, after all, is always a site of
heterogeneity, a difference whose sameness soothes the soul.
__ The archive in its variety of present forms preserves the actions,
projects and endeavours performed in its name at an earlier stage of
its development.
__ From here-on-in something might have had a place but that place was
always placed in a space.
__ The motivation for her deployment of the term is unclear, but its
effect, as subtle as it might be, is to shift the "crimes" of the
British colonisers into a more indictable register.
__ It is its own.
__ Instead of places, Casey argues, we have come to inhabit such sites,
sites of regulation and discipline that produce the kinds of docile
bodies famously catalogued by Michel Foucault.
__ Her examination of genocide, however, consists of little more than a
passing mention.
__
Although 19th-century historians like James Bonwick, John West and
James Calder described the killings of Aborigines in Tasmania in terms
of extirpation and extermination, perhaps the earliest author to
explicitly mobilise the term "genocide" to describe the frontier
experience in Tasmania was Bronwyn Desailly in her 1977 thesis The
Mechanics of Genocide: Colonial Policies and Attitudes towards the
Tasmanian Aborigines, 1824-1836.
__ With their backgrounds in geography, proponents of cultural
landscape discourse often struggle to come to grips with the affective
fullness of place-interaction as a process.
__ High wage employment in smart industries and symbolic analysis is
harder to come by in Tasmania than in larger centres, but the
employment profile of the state matches the nation in rough symmetry.
__ The archive that operates at one remove from the material history of
Tasmania is thus already accessed by the historians concerned.
__ There are fund managers and internet designers and tourism
consultants and architects all based in the cities of Launceston and
Hobart and their position descriptions do not differ dramatically from
those of their counterparts in Berlin or Stockholm or Boston.
__ Most of the incidents that feature at the heart of the genocide
debate - the Risdon Massacre, the Black Line, the Roving Parties, the
random atrocities - were documented by historians of the 19th century
and in most cases, the most important primary source providing us with
access into those conflictual pasts remains the seventeen volumes of
reports compiled by Governor Arthur in 1830 and filed as the Colonial
Secretary's Office Papers in the Tasmanian Archives.
__ The organ pipes, vertically thrusting linear shafts of dolomite, cut
an axis up away from the undulating buttress of the foothills.
__ These texts represent or encode events in such a way as to actually
influence the character of other events that follow.
__ Even a book like this that purports to describe the archive takes
part in its formulation.
__ There are always personal histories and private attachments and
secret, furtive sparks of identity to be found in an ordinary
landscape.
__ Even as we fill our abodes with the mass-produced commodities of
late-capitalism, the arrangements and colours that we choose mark our
spaces off as our own.
__ When we talk about Tasmanian place, then, we are talking about a
combination of immediate physical awareness and cognitive mapping that
relies upon official cartography, the hybridisation of isolated place
interaction, memory and other factors for its successful production and
maintenance.
__ From an archival perspective, of course, the fierce thrust and
counter-thrust meted out in the rugged attempts to work out once and
for all whether the decimation and displacement of the Tasmanian
Aborigines constituted a genocide is all just grist to the mill.
__ To a layman, of course, the difference is too obvious for words.
__ Conjoined mobilisations of the twin signifiers "genocide" and
"Tasmania" can be found in the letter pages of magazines, in academic
articles, in fiction, film, newspapers and in journalistic non-academic
histories.
__ "
Desailly's interpolation of genocide into the Tasmanian archive stands
as a fairly innocuous initiation of a new way of imagining a place.
__ The forms of life to be found here, can also be found with allowance
for variation across the entirety of the late-capitalist world.
__ The archive operates between these levels in carrying the traces of
historical actuality into the present so that they can be re-coded in
terms
provided by modernity theory.
__ For the latter, place or topos is located within the chora, the
cosmological ether that holds the universe in a particular position,
but for Aristotle, the two differ from each other only in trivial ways.
__ If getting to the core of a given locale like Thomas Hardy's Wessex,
John Updike's America, or Patrick White's Australia, requires an
immersion in the vivid fecundity of descriptive fiction, it would seem,
ipso facto, that a turn to philosophy is required to adequately grasp
place as concept.
__ In drawing on Kleinian psychoanalysis, this approach brings into
relief the existential significance of locatedness.
__ Examples of this kind of mobilisation can be found in Bernard
Smith's Boyer Lectures of 1980, The Spectre of Trugernini, when he
discusses the anamnesis of colonial violence that began to work its way
through the networks of the Australian public sphere around the time of
his presentation:
.
__
The socio-economic conditions that subtend the lived experience of
third millennium Tasmanians have not been cast from some exotic
autochthonous matter found nowhere else on earth.
__ As Setha Low and Irvin Altman write:
Place attachment can develop social, material, and ideological
dimensions, as individuals develop ties to kin and community, own or
rent land, and participate in public life as residents of a particular
community.
__
References to the Tasmanian genocide are legion across a range of
discursive terrains emanating from the four corners of the world.
__ Towerflats that are ostensibly identical to one another become sites
of intimate, personalised dwelling when treated with care and
attention.
__ Then there are views from windows, out on to streets, across rivers,
over to hills, rolling, abrupt, steep, wooded, cleared, brown,
green-blue.
__ Desailly's thesis catalogues the major instances of colonial death
in Van Diemen's Land and contextualises them through an examination of
the racist ideologies disseminated through the newspapers at the time.
__ I could be nowhere else but here as I write this, nowhere else but
Hobart, Tasmania, at the bottom of the world, drifting off toward
Antarctica.
__ Place is the "personality of a location" and may include "patterns
in the mellow brick of an eighteenth-century building, the sweep of the
Great Plains, the bustle of a small harbour full of sailboats.
__ While modernisation was a trope that government leaders, captains of
industry and their compadres deployed on occasion, the connection to a
world-historical tradition called modernity was never made.
__ In an island the size of Tasmania, the concept of geographical
separation must be drawn upon in combination with the perception of
coastal spaces if the experience of a single stretch of beach, cliffs
and water is to be understood as part of a continuous perimeter.
__ In the stream of the book about modernity, on the other hand, the
contributions to the Tasmanian archive engaged were not operating at
the level of meta-history.
__ Its purple tone at evening fall isn't like Table Mountain's shade.
__ We carry the archive around with us then, adding to it as we go.
__ But in the anonymous spaces of the bourgeois present, difference
still persists.
__ Hobart is nature's city and nature is always different.
__ These actors worked through the archive as they changed it.
__ The assumption that undergirds these enunciations holds that the
mass deaths on the Tasmanian frontier were self-evidently genocidal
because they were carried out by one racial grouping and directed at
another racial grouping.
__ Tasmania as a unified object is never available to sense perception
in the same way as a more confined place like a city park or an
industrial site.
__
Here place is clearly differentiated from space and taken as a term
which organises a political as well as a physical jurisdiction.
__ The multiplicitous killings of Aboriginals on the Tasmanian frontier
may have been perpetrated under the influence of motivations that we
would now understand as genocidal but that genocidality was never
articulated at the level of the letter.
__
The events that have since become the gravitational centre pulling
together the debates around genocide in Tasmania, on the other hand,
were not enacted with "genocide" in mind for the simple reason that the
signifier was not put into circulation until 1944 when Raphael Lemkin
published Axis Rule in Occupied Europe:
New conceptions require new terms.
__ Tied down to the routine of a prodromal Taylorism, elegies for the
lost world of difference and specificity denoted by that slippery word
- home - came easily.
__ As we write about the archive, it undergoes a metamorphosis and we
find the place we left when we sat down to write is not the same when
we get up to leave.
__
This incapacity shows itself most emphatically in the endless rehearsal
of arguments about the differences between space and place taken up by
writers as temporally diverse as Aristotle and Michel de Certeau.
__ But modernity, as demonstrated by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, is as
much a narrative as a set of historico-social logics.
__
The chill of the Southern Ocean, the mix of Victorian, Georgian and
Federation homes, the unrepentant topography of the city streets, the
grey of the State Government buildings, the pirated brand-name clothing
of the hustling youngsters in the mall, the wood smoke and blue-green
eucalyptus-lined hills of the Eastern Shore, all make this part of
Tasmania absolutely, irreducibly heterogeneous.
__ Operating within its confines, seeing Tasmania in the terms it
allowed, they were also expanding its field of vision in preparation
for transformations in the concrete experience of Tasmania as place.
__ The archive tells us we are on an island even when our senses fail
us.
__ But is there really anything to be gained from stripping places of
their tangible characteristics in the name of attaining a purely
conceptual understanding of place? I would like to contend here that
philosophical discourse, even in its phenomenological and embodied
modes, is compromised in its attempt to generate a productive discourse
around place precisely because the promise of place lies in its
resistance to abstraction.
__ In this sense, my account of modernity in the Tasmanian archive has
really been the history of my own imputation of modernity in that
archive.
__ In the Physics, Aristotle breaks from Plato in making place
co-terminous to space.
__ C H A P T E R 3
From Archive to Place and Back Again
Any project that seeks to map out the means by which a given place
acquires character through the complex activation of narrative and
discourse in the context of lived experience engages in dialogue with
Fredric Jameson's comment that "our cultural languages are totally
dominated by space rather than categories of time, as in the preceding
period of high modernism proper.
__ " Cultural landscape discourse also offers useful avenues of
approach to this tricky topic in its attempts to fuse the categories of
natural and built components of location, "wrestling", in Dolores
Hayden's terms, "with the combination of the two in the concept of
place.
__ The juridical subject of Lockean justice, to take another example,
is made into an entity by the derogation of abstract rights that derive
from an insertion into a liberal location itself stripped of any
immanent traits.
__ It is deployed only rarely and doesn't act as a nodal point in the
way that signifiers like "wilderness" or "island" do.
__ The signifier has an independent history in the Tasmanian archive
that needs to be documented if we are to come to grips with the
historicity of the events to which it has become attached.
__ Because of the affectively charged volatility of the signifier
"genocide", this stream of the book is amenable to a more
straightforward and commonsensical sortie into archival analysis.
__ Perhaps there is no bridge between those literary texts which evoke
a place, imagined or otherwise, and this philosophical discourse on
place in general.
__ In addition to terms like "region" in Martin Heidegger's work,
"enclave" in Jean-François Lyotard's, "earth" in ecology and so on,
smooth space and the local absolute represent an attempt to provide a
vocabulary of concreteness for thinking our situatedness and the chance
to throw off the shackles of site and time as the basic organizational
categories for modern thought.
__ Fantasies of perfect uniformity are just that, Orwellian, Huxleyian
myths of a world where texture and colour and character have been
removed by some centrally planned, Corbusian architectonics.
__ Visual images might take the place of phenomenal experience and
memory in the equation I described earlier, but the kinesis of archival
energy essentially does its work unaided.
__ The reason for this is that the various contributors to the genocide
debate already do the work of applying an abstraction to an immanent
set of historical logics.
__
The promise of the archive as a means of understanding how locations
become places lies in its sensitivity to the mutual imbrication of
language and sensory experience.
__ There is thus no clear division between event and the archive
because a function of reflexivity folds the two in on each other.
__ Isn't every place unique? What could we expect to gain from speaking
about places in general.
__ On the one hand, the signifier "modernity" operates as a minor term
within the annals of the archive.
__ More precisely, the Tasmanianness of the articulation might only
become apparent later when, for example, a biography of the subject
responsible for the utterance is written to lay claim to his or her
status as an exemplary Tasmanian.
__ In other words, at various points in the past, the Tasmanian archive
bore witness to a set of concrete events that were only to become
"genocidal" at a later date.
__ By describing the decimation and the displacement of the Aboriginal
Tasmanians as a genocide, Desailly draws down on that power of horror
and builds a bridge between the two historical events that elides the
irreducible difference at their core.
__ The geographical estrangement of Tasmania that asks to be
incorporated into a cultural taxonomy depends upon the imaginary
imputation of islandness, itself a condition inaccessible to the
perceiving subject other than through the synthetic amalgamation of
disparate fragments of experience.
__
Within a field of homogeneity, what we might call the world-system, or
postmodern capitalism, or the West, or the developed world, singularity
presents itself as an exception.
__ Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate
destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of
all members of a nation.
__
But this kind of conversation with its focus on definitions and reified
abstractions takes us a long way from the very concreteness of place
that is its defining characteristic.
__ The signifier has become active.
__ If Gaston Bachelard was on the right track when he called his
mercurial study The Poetics of Space rather than of place, the
contrariness of de Certeau's counter-intuitive dictum that space is
practised place only confirms the confused character of philosophical
discourse on the topic to hand.
__ Henri Lefebvre's social constructivist inscription of a force of
production onto the void of naturalised space, for instance, is
confusing at points, but at least it performs the useful function of
undermining the imperialising ambitions of the physical sciences.
__ In cases such as Desailly's, the perpetration of a genocide in
Tasmania is taken as a given and does not in itself become the subject
of complex elaboration.
__ It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different
actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life
of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.
__ Studying genocide in the Tasmanian archive requires a dialectical
balancing of materiality - the historical events that have been
re-examined through the terms and conditions of genocide - and
linguistic genealogy.
__ In light of this, my professed intention to trace the unfolding of a
logic in the Tasmanian archive is exposed as disingenuous because such
a logic conceived in those terms did not leave its traces there.
__ In Barthes' terms, the archive is a scriptible rather than a lisible
web of texts.
__ Archival articulations are on the record and Tasmania as place now
carries the scarlet letter that signifies man's most heinous inhumanity
to man.
__ The function of the Holocaust as what Alison Palmer calls the
"prototype" of genocide necessarily inscribes its signifier with a
power of horror. __ As compelling as the narratives of relative decline
and underdevelopment might be, we cannot overlook the fact that
endogenous processes of modernisation have taken place in Tasmania.
__
Chakrabarty tells us that modernity is something that happened first in
Europe, then elsewhere.
__
The third way in which references to a Tasmanian genocide are framed is
in juridical terms, as a set of cases that need to be adjudged in
accordance with legal definitions of genocide.
__ In particular, he argues, the moves to segregate the Aborigines and
ultimately to remove them from the Tasmanian mainland entirely, lead to
genocide even if genocide wasn't intended by the action.
__ In brief, Moses attempts to short-circuit the closed network of
UN-defined genocide through an engagement with traditions of social
scientific thought that emphasise the distinction between structure and
agency.
__
5
Free inside his pompous rig -to scratch his leg or pick his nose-
a microwave to heat his food if for some strange reason he's further
than a drive-through place than he thinks he should be
but worlds unfold he prays the fluid chord of anchor's time the flick
of light in a cobalt cage prising open gummy lids (vishnu, aton) and
thought streams back to Carthage dreams and being, the tempered self,
the store of voice
and nothing left the pegs the wind mountains mean more men! pegs in the
dirt somewhere new horizon square holes round holes plastic pegs wooden
pegs made in guangzou (sic) he feels his wings begin to stir the spine
of feathers fanning out.
__ After all, can there be any more edifying an encounter with one's
own modernity than the "negative" re-enforcement of first contact with
the indigenes of the "new" world? Certainly, the narrativisation of
those moments of interface where space comes to stand for time in the
imagination of historicity remain steadfastly European, but the
non-European, the oriental in Edward Said's terms, can never be denied
a place in the stories that describe the arrival of modernity.
__
Speaking in a different register, Richard Flanagan bemoans the
obstacles to representing the particularity of "minor" places when the
only languages available are overdetermined by their imperial origins:
To grow up in Tasmania not so long ago, as I did, was to meet the world
each day with wonder and with love, with fear and with terror.
__ The subaltern zones allegedly being made to speak by this scholarly
project are always already present in, and in fact, constitutive of the
nascent modern cosmographies of geography, statehood and subjectivity.
__ Take Anthony Giddens' often quoted precis from The Consequences of
Modernity: "Modernity refers to forms of life and modes of social
organisation that have their origins in 17th century Europe and have
since become more or less worldwide in their influence.
__
Tasmania engages in a hide and seek game with the imaginary institution
of modernity.
__ Regions and nations outside the West can experience modernity, but
that experience will never be quite as modern as the originary European
instantiation.
__ In the case of the latter, a more radical, disconcerting and
paradoxical situation has to unfold.
__ But Moses isn't happy to rest there.
__ From the UN definition of 1948, Churchill moves on to the
contribution made by John Paul Sartre in relation to American
activities in Vietnam.
__ This approach finds an analog in Benjamin's work on Baudelaire,
flânerie and the phantasmagoria of the arcades, in its willing embrace
of the tropology of the grand narrative to be found in its famous
description of Paris as "the capital of the 19th century".
__ I am not alone in making this assertion, as the panoply of
nomenclatures designed to bear the weight of a decentred modernity so
demonstrably attests.
__ This imposition, in turn, may be made upon the oppressed population
which is allowed to remain, or upon the territory alone, after removal
of the population and the colonization of the area by the oppressor's
own nationals.
__ Likewise, for Partha Chatterjee, the attempt to theorise
non-European modernities incites a "politics of despair" of precisely
the kind that Dipesh Chakrabarty seeks to dispel in Provincializing
Europe.
__ In the absence of such a possibility, however, the energy expended
on determining the genocidality of the destruction of the Aborigines
might be put to better use.
__
For Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire's Paris was the capital of the
19th century, the locus classicus of the great wave of social,
cultural, political and aesthetic transformation that still stands as
the high tide mark in cultural histories of modernity.
__ Neither, for that matter, is the factum that every locus of colonial
exploration and expansion is as indelibly inscribed with the ink -
blood? - of modernity as Tasmania, so that any of them might easily
take its place in an analogous investigation.
__ Churchill departs from the course taken by Barta, however, in
providing an overarching genealogy of the term, which, like the work of
Moses, focuses on intention.
__ Barta paved the way for Moses' structural displacement of the intent
to commit genocide in his 1987 essay "Land and Lives in the
Colonization of Australia".
__ Pioneering a linguistic turn in Genocide Studies, Barta identifies a
"linked history" that brings into shared perspective the racist
discourse and policies of Colonial Australia and Nazi Germany.
__ government's oft-stated rationale that its intent was to liberate
the Vietnamese and safeguard their freedom.
__ Operating within the confines of their own discursive vector,
economists emphasise the relatively archaic character of the state's
regime of production, while tourism campaigns promote it as a location
where a rich historical past suffuses the present and vast tracts of
wilderness proffer an antidote to the differentiation, specialisation
and disenchantment of (post)modern life.
__ "Repetition", as Deleuze tells us, "is not generality.
__ In the face of the now well-documented move towards thinking the
local in the contemporary humanities, Jameson's book sits alongside
Paul Gilroy's claim that "we need to embrace a planetary humanism", and
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's suspicion of "yoking uniqueness into
a hegemonic power field" as attempts to refocus our attention towards
the transnational terrain.
__ The time-delay between events and their mediated "arrival" in the
colonies created a kind of obsessive lust for belated news reports from
the "mother countries", a situation as disorientating as the knowledge
that the distant stars we experience as existing in the present might
actually have burnt out hundreds of millions of years ago.
__ Even our imaginations must remain forever colonised.
__ On the one hand, the nation-state is treated as an effect or symptom
of modernity, and on the other, it is treated as the horizon or
organising framework along which processes of modernisation are said to
occur.
__
There is, however, a second motivation at work here.
__ " Here genocide is conceived as the total annihilation of a racial
grouping.
__ The "imperialism" of a generic modernity that has spread to the four
corners of the world is concealed in accounts that seek to define it as
culturally neutral and neutralising, but the "first in Europe, then
elsewhere" structure of global historicity is still always already
present in those narrativisations.
__ The crucial point to be made here is that the institution of the
entity that we now call Tasmania was an effect of modernity rather than
an instance of its actively willed origination.
__ A still more ominous spectre haunting the task of theorising
alternative modernities is the centrality of the other to the colonial
construction of the imperial European self.
__ The imperative for doing this kind of work is made readily apparent
by even the most cursory survey of the standard theoretical expositions
of modernity.
__ In the time before the emergence of work by Dilip Gaonkar, Paul
Gilroy, Chakrabarty, Tani Barlow, Terry Eagleton, Harry Harootunian and
Arjun Appadurai, for example, suggesting that an instantiative analysis
of modernity's developmental trajectories might be successfully carried
out through an historiographical intervention into the Tasmanian
archive may well have been taken as a nice postcolonial kind of idea,
but it would also have undoubtedly faced an uphill battle for
recognition and acceptance.
__ Giddens goes a step further than this, breaking modernity up into
abstracted constituent elements or "institutional contours".
__ At least until the onset of the project of hydro-electrification in
the late-19th century, Tasmania was an object or side-effect of the
modernisation of an imperial "elsewhere" rather than the master of its
own modernity.
__ The principles of convergence and uneven development held that in
the final analysis every site which fell under the spell of modernity's
siren song would wind up as mirror images of an originary,
undisplaceable European configuration, even if the logics that enforced
that transformation appeared non-partisan and accommodating of cultural
difference.
__ To paraphrase Marx, Paris's present in Baudelaire's day presented
itself to the less developed cultural regions of Europe and the World
as the image of their own future.
__ "
Carmel Schrire's elegiac essay in honour of the anthropologist and
archaeologist Rhys Jones, "Betrayal as a Universal Element in the
Sundering of Bass Strait", departs from the course marked out by these
writers in its willingness to call the Tasmanian genocide a Holocaust.
__
In Barta's work, a return is made to the source of genocide thinking to
trump the UN claim to propriety over the administration of the
intellectual lineaments of its application and reconstitution.
__ The comparativist orientation of these contributions, however, does
supplement the Tasmanian archive if only through the notification that
what transpired in Van Diemen's Land from 1803 to 1876 bears a
resemblance to events that took place in other colonial locations.
__
In A Little Matter of Genocide, Ward Churchill performs a similar
textual move to Mazian's.
__ In Tasmania, a number of such transformational thresholds present
themselves for analysis: the European invasion and the decimation of
the cultures of the Aboriginal Tasmanians, the abolition of
transportation, the acquisition of self-rule and the name change from
Van Diemen's Land to Tasmania, and the project of
hydro-electrification.
__ Stumbling across a set of mysterious incisions cut into the trunks
of the trees at his landing point on Bruny Island, Tasman hypothesised
that Aboriginal giants had been at work, using the notches as toeholds
for ascending the higher branches.
__ After Vienna, Moscow, Paris, Berlin and New York, the last in this
sequence is a city which allusively jumbles up the others: Tokyo.
__ Attempts to identify a UN-defined genocide in Tasmania are
impossible, Moses contends, because of the lack of deliberate policy on
behalf of either the Tasmanian Colonial Governments or the Colonial
Office in Britain.
__ That the establishment of Tasmania as a colonial zone, its
"discovery" and its "settlement" in other words, was a paradigmatically
modern process is not in question here.
__ According to the figurations that constitute this enigmatic
catalogue, Tasmania becomes, in different modalities and at different
times, a virgin wilderness, an antipodean England, a home of the gothic
and the grotesque and a constantly chastened economic and cultural
backwater.
__ " Barta takes the genocide debate even further away from Ned
Curthoys' maligned pedantry and myopia in "Discourses of Genocide in
Germany and Australia: A Linked History" an essay released in 2001.
__ In the case of writing located within the confines of the
international study of genocide, it might be more accurate to state
that Tasmania is being added to the archive of genocide rather than
vice versa.
__ Why Genocide? is a work of psycho-social scholarship that seeks to
develop a theoretical framework for understanding how genocides in
general come to be enacted through a practical analysis of the facts in
the case of Turkish Armenia and the Shoah.
__
It is not difficult to imagine how Tasmania might fit into the
footnotes of a narrative about the first modernity.
__ The postcolonial turn in historiography and literary theory has done
much to remedy this slight, but the traces of cultural lag, the
revenants of centres and peripheries, still haunt our imagination of
marginality.
__ There can be no more doubt that Tasmania has a place in this kind of
world-historical story, than there can be about the marginal, subaltern
positioning of that place.
__ In existential terms, this dis-ease manifests as a feeling of
isolation, the sensation that the place we are "in" is at one remove
from itself, immediately present and yet far-flung, near and far at the
same time.
__ In the past, the temporal dimension of the awareness of inhabiting
the "new" world was utterly confused by the fact that whatever happened
in these marginal spaces was only ever an echo of what had already
transpired in the imperial centres.
__ On this model, modernity has a putative, if rather imprecise
spatio-temporal center, and the developmental logics that it names -
industrialisation, democratisation, urbanisation, bureaucratisation -
radiate outwards from this entrepot like ripples across a pond.
__
4
The trucker relays shots of you beside the road cooling off with a girl
he's seen before under pressure at the tap he snicks his blade next
morning a toneish girl leaning up against the red curvy car parked next
to the road closer to the hood than the trunk pushing off from the
shoulder and walking round to the passenger door bending toward the
seat holding on to the roof for balance steam rising from the radiator
he could see to the horizon, keen to the differences between himself
and the kids who hung around the hawthorn lane.
__ Like the international genocide scholars who push the UN definition
to one side, Thorpe and Evans propose an alternative nomenclature for
thinking the clash of cultures in Australia - indigenocide.
__ It is important to remember, however, that this newness was invested
with a special aura because it was seen as a world-historical newness,
a newness-for-mankind.
__ Capitalist prosperity, in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's terms,
would continue to reterritorialise with one hand what it
deterritorialised with the other.
__ Of course, this is a highly problematic claim.
__
then an architect friend of mine hired me to write about a house his
firm had built down there.
__ "What we need," he writes, "is a conception of genocide which
embraces relations of destruction and removes from the word the
emphasis on policy and intention which brought it into being.
__ Chakrabarty calls this particular kind of historicist thought a
"first in Europe and then elsewhere structure of time", and it has
proven extremely influential in organising frameworks for thinking the
dissemination of modernity.
__ As I make clear in this book, the broader world-historical
trajectories of modernisation and the cultural codings that accompany
them have scarred the Tasmanian archive just as indelibly as its
cosmopolitan equivalents.
__ The modernity that Habermas describes in The Philosophical Discourse
of Modernity: Twelve Lectures as an "unfinished project" is more a
philosophical category than a "structure of feeling" or a
socio-cultural horizon, but even he argues that modernisation of the
Weberian kind - the arrival and consolidation of instrumental reason,
specialisation and differentiation, bureaucratisation - remains a
universal topos in so far as it "disassociates modernity from its
modern European origins and stylizes it into a spatio-temporally
neutral model for processes of social development in general.
__ Unlike the writers who take the Tasmanian genocide as a given, the
proponents of the definitional reading examine the historical facts in
some detail.
__ " For Meaghan Morris, the problematic that develops around these
configurations of "imperial historicist time" and its colonial
discontents can be summed up in the contention that modernity is a
known history.
__ If we shift the axis of our inquiry to a position that might be
called Tasmanio-centric, however, an entirely different set of ways
into reading the island state's path through modernity presents itself.
__
The internally heterogeneous object of my project is Tasmania, a
semi-autonomous ex-colonial member-state of a national federation.
__ As Krishnan Kumar points out, modernity is a contrast concept: it
acquires its epistemological saliency by distinguishing the period or
condition it names from the period or condition that went before it.
__ In addition to being thought as a site of modernity's absence,
Tasmania has also been configured discursively as a place of absolutely
irreducible specificity, as a geographically isolated, island outpost
constantly under threat, externally from an encroaching wilderness and
internally from a leaking population and a permanently fragile economy.
__ The subordination of the past effected by the triumph of the moderns
over the ancients finds a synchronic proof in the condition of
non-European civilisations.
__ The key here is to establish a logic of causality and representation
that makes the part substitutable for the whole, while all the while
honouring the primacy of this first narrative of modernity as a
European story that finds some of its scenes unfolding on the colonial
stage.
__
Berman's strategy for mediating between the particular and the general
is to nominate a set of archetypes, principally locations and personae,
and to use them as focalising points for his reading of modernity.
__ The additions to the Tasmanian archive made by these writers
acquires a novel character primarily through the contextual placement
of their comments.
__ Furthermore, and certainly more crucially in the light of the
contrapuntal nature of this study, Barta ties genocidal and racist
thinking to the empirical history of European modernisation in the
colonial zones of the new world:
The colonising impulse to possess the world as the birthright of
European superiority could become a genocidal one wherever the
assumption of superiority was threatened by resistance and competition.
__
In recent years a substantial body of literature has emerged which
attempts to de-centre the narratives of modernity that have played such
an influential part in consolidating these tensions.
__ The UN focus on intent is rendered obsolete in this approach through
a subtle and supple examination of the way racist ideology came to
inhabit the "ideas and assumptions" of the populations of the two
countries.
__
The interest in moulding the facts in the case of the Tasmanian
genocide to the UN definition seems to issue from a vain wish to have
those crimes brought to trial.
__ Short references to the Tasmanian "extermination" appear twice, in
the first instance in the context of a refutation of the "uniqueness"
position in Holocaust Studies and second as specifically colonial
evidence for the long durational extension of genocidal practices.
__ In Tasmania, this sense of displacement and exile produced a
phenomenology of colonial isolation, a thirst for resemblance and
similarity instantiated in John Glover's Eurofication of native
landscapes, the imitational mode of cultural production that Jim
Davidson calls "Tasmanian Gothic" and Hal Porter's claim that "Hobart
Town was […] the Englishman's miniature of London from which no
home-recalling and cherished detail had been left out […].
__ " The reproduction of something in a new context represents a
generalisation of that thing, not its repetition.
__ This experience, it must be admitted, is hardly remarkable.
__ The density and range of this work clears the way for site-based
analyses of alternative, non-European modernities that do more than
merely regather their subject matter in the net of orthodox
modernisation theory.
__ Henry Reynolds' An Indelible Stain: The Question of Genocide in
Australian History stands out as the most focussed of these studies,
and also acquires a mark of uniqueness in its resistance to assign the
term to the Tasmanian case.
__ For other writers, however, the framework for invoking genocide in
the Tasmanian case is to add density to the discussion of other
instances of genocide or of genocide in general.
__ Here Sartre shifted the emphasis of the definition away from
intention to the effects of campaigns of occupation and colonisation:
The proof of genocide, [Sartre] asserted lies in the results of policy,
not in the intentions by which it may be undertaken.
__ It summarises the central events of the frontier history, it begins
with a discussion of Lemkin's work and it reproduces the UN definition
at length.
__ Europe and the Americas, the only true subjects of history, have
thought out on our behalf not only the script of colonial enlightenment
and exploitation, but also that of our anti-colonial resistance and
postcolonial misery.
__ But the very incorporation of Tasmania into the European
world-system was itself a multi-valent symptom of that cataclysmic set
of social transformations.
__ Schrire's comments are essentially secondary reproductions of
Jones's own work drawn from Tom Haydon's controversial documentary The
Last Tasmanian: A Story of Genocide.
__ The writers concerned herein, tend to be working from within the
disciplinary confines of Genocide Studies more generally, or set as
their target a trans-Australian analysis of genocidal logics.
__ In this book, then, I will attempt to read a Tasmanian modernity
that is located at a provisional point of conjunction between the
global, the national and the regional.
__ Rather than throwing out the term altogether, however, he proposes
that we think the Tasmanian genocide as a set of "glacial"
developments.
__ As is often the case with this kind of text, the Tasmanian genocide
only appears in passing, where it is referred to to fill out a
historical trajectory.
__ Not only do I reconsider Euro-centric theories of modernity in this
thesis, I also wish to reinscribe Tasmania as a place of repetition and
similarity, as a place not cut adrift from a changing world but
fundamentally built in its image.
__ They were killed with intent, not solely because of their spearing
of cattle or their scientific value, but rather because they were
Aborigines.
__ I will call this body of experience "modernity".
__ impressions inches thick, the delicate crust, above a creek, that
deltas out, the grains like cake that show the smooth, soft underneath
more thorough beds of ocean sand.
__ In the texts which consider it principally in relation to the rest
of Australia, it is the absence or scarcity of certain signs of
modernisation - over-crowded streets, sprawling suburbs, skyscrapers,
new development - that are used to bolster the argument that Tasmania
has somehow escaped or been overlooked by modernity.
__ Tasmania will always be a second class citizen in the body politics
of global modernity, unless we can find a way to invert the narratives
that constitute its flesh, turning them inside out, or back to front,
so that the extremities become the body of the text and the privileged
content at its heart - in all its erstwhile Europeanness - is pushed
out to the margins.
__
But this mis-diagnosis is easily understood.
__ The vitality of this debate, and the currency and salience of the
concept around which it circulates has been most powerfully
demonstrated in recent times by the publication of Fredric Jameson's A
Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present, in which the
author derisively spurns the usefulness of theorising "alternative
modernities" in the name of a unifying definition that veers
dangerously close to the error of generality that Aijaz Ahmed so
famously critiqued in the case of "Third World Literature in the Era of
Multinational Capitalism".
__ The Genocide Convention is very specific on this point: the victim
group must be at risk because of their membership of that group.
__ A study that was to examine the relationship between naval
discoveries and the disenchantment of the world could refer us to Abel
Tasman's ship's log.
__ Apart from Keith Windschuttle's The Fabrication of Aboriginal
History, Reynolds' is the most significant work to avoid the use of the
nomenclature of genocide in the case of the Tasmanian frontier.
__ As Haydon writes:
This [Tasmanian] community was responsible for committing, in my view,
the world's only case of a genocide so swift and so complete and the
guilt of that, I think, has lain very strongly with the white people of
Tasmania.
__ but i had lived there before them too so i felt a certain claim to
the place that I knew would be demobbed.
__ Occupying a point at the centre of the two concentric circles of the
global and the national, Tasmania as region can be written into the
narrative tissue of modernity in a number of ways: first, as a rather
insignificant if irreducibly specific instantiation of the generalised
social logics of modernity; second, as a geo-political entity whose
historical origins have their source in the expansionary imperialism of
the first European modernity; and third, as a footnote, or perhaps a
chapter, in a story of Australian modernity.
__ One of the main thrusts of this study, the charting of modernity's
vicissitudes in Tasmania, is proposed in an intellectual climate that
is nowhere near as intemperate as one might first have thought, and in
fact, displays some of the characteristics necessary for deliberate and
careful unpacking of conceptual orders.
__ They are most notable for the way they reiterate the genocidal
character of frontier conflict in Tasmania even as their author
subscribes to the "extinction as inevitability" thesis that Jones so
notoriously deployed.
__ What was remarkable - though I hardly knew it then - was that you
were not allowed to express that world in forms other than that of
ephemeral stories and jokes you told and others told you.
__ i lived there too on and off when i was a kid-my father had a new
family and they lived there.
__
Historically speaking, then, in instances where modernity was not
characterised as an overtly European phenomenon, it was described as a
generic, universalising set of socio-cultural currents that presented a
neutral facade to its potential proponents, all the while concealing
its conditions of origin behind a screen of unreadability.
__ In the wake of Windschuttle's controversial historical denialism
perhaps we would be better served by genocide scholars who were
interested in unearthing "new" empirical data to confirm the
"unsubstantiated" claims of mass death in frontier Tasmania.
__ Adumbrating the reversal of the extinction thesis after the
Tasmanian Aboriginal Rights movement became active in the late-1970s,
Curthoys states that "genocide had taken place, but it had not been
complete.
__
A further set of texts that take up the question of genocide in
Tasmania are those that privilege the UN definition in clearer terms
than the writers surveyed above.
__ " When Meaghan Morris tells us that this makes modernity a known
history, "something which has already happened elsewhere, and which is
to be reproduced, mechanically or otherwise, with a local content", a
chain of egregious ramifications is set in train.
__ Conrad's strategy merely brings that Euro-centrism to the
foreground, finding the purest instances of modernity in the
cosmopolitan centres of the world and relegating its peripheral
manifestations to a secondary, replicative order.
__ Has modernity not been thought almost exclusively through analyses
of the great centres of human civilisation, the cities of Paris, London
and New York and the continents of Europe and North America? One of the
more famous of Tasmania's expatriates, Peter Conrad, would never dream
of including his own birthplace in a history of modernity, existing as
it does for him, on the very outskirts of a world that finds its centre
thousands of miles away:
Modernity is about the acceleration of time, and also the dispersal of
places.
__ The settlers pathetically strove to reconcile Arcady with Alcatraz;
since then, the spoliation of mountains and the damming of rivers hint
at a desire to punish this unyielding place into subservience.
__ Ian Macfarlane's thesis, Aboriginal Society in North West Tasmania:
Dispossession and Genocide, completed at the University of Tasmania in
2002, is one text that offers a way forward here, expanding the
Tasmanian archive through the use of a volatile and problematic
signifier but also reordering its empirical retinue through the
discursive rendering of heretofore unknown events.
__ After summarising some of the violent encounters between the
Aborigines and the Europeans, Tatz concludes that:
This wasn't simply a murderous outbreak of racial hatred.
__ The task of theorising alternative modernities continues to present
itself as pressing and incomplete.
__ It is a thread in a thickly interwoven cloth.
__ In doing so, my first priority is not to rethink modernity from the
"fringes" or, indeed, to produce a propositional response to the
question: "Is Tasmania modern?".
__ Her comments are worth repeating, though, because they segue into
the final modality of genocidal articulations to surface in the
Tasmanian archive.
__ Dirk Moses's "An Antipodean Genocide? The Origins of the Genocidal
Moment in the Colonisation of Australia" is a good example of the
latter in so far as it interrogates the centrality of intention to the
UN definition.
__
Thorpe and Evans' work is a classic articulation of the factor of
genocide in an historical logic.
__ But even in light of this challenge to Europe as the end of history,
universal subject and common destiny, impediments to working through a
radically differentiated modernity still exist.
__ The attempt to combat this universalising discourse has been led by
a vanguard composed predominantly of Area Studies specialists and
post-colonial theorists, although feminist scholars like Susan Wolff
and Rita Felski have also made indispensable contributions.
__ Unfortunately, the publication in 2004 of texts by Benjamin Madley,
Ashley Riley Sousa and William Rubinstein that somnambulate along
well-cut historical paths suggests that such an approach is likely to
remain unfashionable.
__ Jumping forward a couple of centuries, a study of the rise of
utilitarianism of the Benthamite kind might be fleshed out through a
discussion of the model prison at Port Arthur which was built to the
specifications of the panopticon, that most exemplary site for the
production of internally policing subjectivities.
__ Through his inclusion of the nation-state in this catalogue, he
alerts us to the way that entity functions dialectically within the
plural field of Modernity Studies.
__ It was first released in 1978, only 12 or so months after Desailly's
thesis was completed.
__ […] Genocide is not always as blatantly practiced as it was with the
Nazis, nor is it always practiced as ruthlessly as in the case of the
British in Tasmania […] Genocide can be executed with a certain
finesse.
__ Within the Australian cultural imaginary, Tasmania is persistently
figured as non-, anti-, or only partially modern.
__
Peter Conrad follows Smith in his geo-autobiography Down Home:
Revisiting Tasmania when he uses the trope of genocide to launch one of
his many flights of rhetorical fancy into the imaginary space above
Tasmania as place:
The island has been made by a long series of alienating schisms.
__ Her intervention into the Tasmanian archive follows the form of
those authors who take the genocide as a given, however, in so far as
she only makes passing mention of the Tasmanian case.
__ Aside from the forced comparison with other genocidal events that is
enacted through the mobilisation of this volatile signifier it is
difficult to see the value of re-reading a set of historical events
that is already recognised as horrific in terms of an alternative
meta-theoretical category that only re-iterates that power of horror.
__ In terms of its contribution to a politics of reconciliation, Ned
Curthoys's comments on genocide discourse seem to offer a tentative way
forward:
Here in Australia the vexed question of genocide […] can be […]
contextualised within an inherited European pattern of colonial
expansion and mono-cultural domination requiring a response that is
both urgent and historically 'deep', removed from pedantic legalism and
myopic political imperatives.
__ To these effacements of difference achieved in the name of an
ostensibly neutral universality, we might also add influential texts in
the tradition by Jürgen Habermas, Conrad and Benjamin.
__ This book [Modern Times, Modern Places: Life and Art in the 20th
Century] starts by describing the modern panic about time.
__ To adopt this position, however, is to read Tasmania's textual and
cultural archive from the outside in.
__
For this group, Tasmania is nothing other than a cipher, an empty place
marked off on the historical record only by the atrocities directed at
its indigenous inhabitants.
__
Colin Tatz also has no qualms about delivering a verdict of UN-defined
genocide in Tasmania.
__
Can a world without bearing turn back on its feet? the world is heads
for that they matter both ways up for other minds kaput in peace
contract reframe tyger's eye
Expand or hover end and cast again our gilly patient chalk stream bank
(on cliff's edge leaning in, counting being with rector's eyes)
some time ago i worked at a pizza shop in a suburb south of hobart.
__ In stark contrast to Reynolds' piece is Bill Thorpe and Raymond
Evans' extended essay "Indigenocide and the Massacre of Aboriginal
History".
__ In "Genocide in Australia" he directs our attention to article II
(a) of the Convention that lays down the requirement that victims of
genocide be targeted by virtue of their membership of a specific racial
or ethnic grouping.
__ There, the authors, compare the facts in the case of Tasmania with
the UN definition and come up with what they see as an irrefutable
verdict:
[The Tasmanian Aboriginal situation] is certainly genocidal if one
takes the United Nations definition, and deploys several of its
criteria to what occurred during the height of the conflict between the
settlers and Aborigines over land (1824-1834).
__ For an example of a global, universalising modernity we need go no
further than Marshall Berman's opening proposition from All That is
Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity:
There is a mode of vital experience - experience of space and time, of
the self and others, of life's possibilities and perils - that is
shared by men and women all over the world today.
__ It goes on to identify a series of places which are the citadels of
modern society in its different phases.
__ In this instance, the broad "type" of genocide with which the
Tasmanian situation complies is colonial genocide:
A case lending support to Toynbee's thesis can be seen in the case of
the island of Tasmania, where in a short span of seventy-three years
the British successfully eliminated the native population.
__ Implicit in this investigation is the contention that the
misapprehended absence of the signs of modernity has significantly
informed the narratives of decline and diaspora that Tasmanians have
come to rely upon as resources for identity formation and that, while
misapprehended, this perceived neglect has played a large part in the
construction of the Tasmanian archive.
__ Just as the island appears safely ensconced within its
socio-historical horizon, it slips, through some unseen bolthole, into
a set of wholly different discursive orders.
__ In other words, and in ironic contradiction to Bruno Latour's famous
thesis, Tasmania has always been modern because it was modernity that
prompted its "discovery" and modernity that prompted its "settlement".
__ the city lost its tail to bliss- waiting for glass blowers on small
mountains rust red rivers running to a whale of massive sludge.
__ On the cognate topic of nationalism in the colonial world,
Chatterjee notes:
If nationalisms in the rest of the world have to choose their imagined
communities from certain "modular" forms already made available to them
by Europe and the Americas, what do they have left to imagine? History,
it would seem, has decreed that we in the postcolonial world shall only
be perpetual consumers of modernity.
__ " Here Barta refers briefly to the Tasmanian case in proposing that
white Australia exists in a relation of genocide to the Aboriginal
population.
__
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or else you break down-coiled around the maypole water coloured belts
set free lions sea and sex; platelets of salty thought-none outside we
breathe Charybdis.
__
point and line
the sea the grass the stones the shells, a marriage bed my daughter's
twigs and nut-pink flowers are pretty-she likes ice cream at the beach
the wavelets there reflect the sun like a new highway or saltbush at
the heads or a little sandstone mill the database has powered down
first impressions of a deep-sea port missile tests that froth the shore
the loyal fuse starts burning out every sign you thought was sweet
every misread sign of age every sign of misread age every fake précis
every orphaned tone the shallow faces brut mirage-me and my city and
our past; a prisoner can be happy should be happy he said and signed my
release.
__ It is this new awareness of what actually occurred that, it seems to
me, constitutes a central problem for the integrity and authenticity of
Australian culture today.
__ The strain of commonality that binds their articulations derives
from the conviction that the perpetration of mass deaths is not an
adequate condition for the mobilisation of the terms of genocide.
__ Haydon's film, which serves as the most significant vehicle for
Jones's particular narrativisation of colonial contact in Tasmania is
one of the foundation stones for the reading of genocide into that
history.
__
Barta's work here is informed by a reading of chapter nine of Lemkin's
Axis Rule in Occupied Europe where the latter argues that genocide can
be a two-fold process of dispossession and displacement followed by the
establishment of an incoming colonisation:
Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of
the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern
of the oppressor.
__ In addition to Felski and Wolff's attempts to feminise modernity,
the search for a theoretical foundation upon which to construct our new
readings of the parole of site-specific modernities has seen the
coining of a whole new vocabulary that includes trans-modernities,
discrepant modernities, settler modernities, plural modernities,
multiple modernities, and even coeval modernities.
__ For these communities, the felt apprehension of their immediate
location was, and to some extent remains, fundamentally dislocated.
__ How shall we redeem it from the guilty awareness that these acts of
genocide and attempted genocide were being enacted most vigorously at
that very time when white Australian culture was being conceived and
born.
__ Sven Lindqvist's Exterminate all the Brutes, doesn't explicitly
mention the term genocide in relation to Tasmania, but it does
reproduce a very brief, sparsely sourced summary of the main events of
the decimation to defend its claim that "[t]he Tasmanians were the most
well known of the exterminated peoples and were often held up as
symbols for them all.
__ In this regard, the experience of Tasmanians is analogous to the
experience of other inhabitants of peripheral zones around the world.
__ The fact of Vietnamese decimation in itself established that
genocide was occurring in Indo-China, regardless of the U.
__ A.
__ The mode of cultural production that Jim Davidson has called
"Tasmanian Gothic", for instance, represents the island as a repository
of the bizarre, the bereft, and the backward.
__
The definitional approaches to the Tasmanian genocide are of two
principal kinds: those which engage primarily with the definition of
genocide spelled out in the UN convention; and those which engage with
more capacious definitions developed by genocide scholars.
__
For Conrad, the genocide of the Aborigines is a vital part of the
historical tapestry of Tasmania.
__
Churchill also opens up the concept of genocide to include the
elimination of specific cultural practices that mark out a specific
group from its colonial opponents.
__ Hegel-Marx; Lacoue Labarthe the front of horse its withers cracked.
__ Even the entry for "Tasmania" in the index is bound inextricably
with the signifier "extermination".
__ There remain important qualifiers to insert into the space between
thinking about endogenous or externally enforced projects of
modernisation in non-European locations as irreducibly specific sets of
events and the gesture that reduces them to pale imitations of an
originary European phenomenon.
__ The repetition must, on the one hand, efface its initial
instantiation so that no trace of what would actually make the second
event secondary and therefore generalised, remains, while on the other,
some residue of the original event must be carried over in its
consequent iterations in order to guarantee that iterative status.
__ Florence Mazian's monograph Why Genocide?: The Armenian and Jewish
Experiences in Perspective provides a case in point.
__ Instead he returns to the UN definition and performs an impressive
intellectual coup de grace by demonstrating the means by which the
destruction of the Aboriginal peoples as an objective and inherent
corollary of the logic of colonisation became subjectively located
within the consciousness of the colonial agents themselves, producing a
situation where specific genocidal intention of the kind described in
the UN definition can be adduced.
__
Tony Barta foreshadows Moses's expansion of the concept of genocide in
his own essay "After the Holocaust: Consciousness of Genocide in
Australia.
__ Rather, I intend to use modernity's contested conceptual field as
the generator of a problematic that will facilitate a reconsideration
of some of the historical and cultural narratives most influential in
organising the Tasmanian archive.
__ Barta adopts the same approach as Churchill in "Genocide: Toward a
Functional Definition" in initiating his discourse with an extended
quotation from the ur-text of genocide thinking, Lemkin's Axis Rule in
Occupied Europe.
__ The fact that little "new" historical data is added to the panorama
provided by 19th-century historians like Bonwick, Ling Roth, Calder and
West remains salient.
__ While I recognise the urgency of this multi-faceted project, I also
believe that the standard complaint that globalised discourse fails to
account for local specificity remains salient.
__ In the case of the Tasmanian genocide, the elimination of
traditional hunting practices, the radical stifling of inter-tribal
marriage and restrictions on seasonal migration clearly point, to his
mind, to a case of cultural genocide.
__ Referring to a further set of texts, he asks the crucial question of
whether the life of a group of people can be separated from the lives
of the individuals that make it up.
__ " Conrad's Modern Times, Modern Places continues this trend after a
different fashion, broaching the generality of modernity through an
analysis of its exemplary instantiations.
__ Tasmania first suffered disconnection from the mainland, which left
its landscape buckled and eruptive; then it was singled out as a place
of penance and the site for an experiment in genocide.
__ S.
__
Submitted to Westerly 4/3/2012
.
__
Writers like Barta, Moses, Churchill, and Sartre have all made
invaluable contributions to the task of developing an alternative
approach to Genocide Studies that does not measure history against the
legal definition laid out in the Genocide Convention.
__
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C H A P T E R 5
Of Contrapuntal Trajectories 2: Modernity
__ i call him neptune but he's no god or father or competent
professional.
__
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one day, they say, the axe just fell.
__ i might come back.
__ i emptied sand from the rolls in my jeans.
__ can anyone with any sense make contact with her now.
__
fossil fuel to fan
your fire, the past as coal,
you sprung a leak in her
and bored,
you cleared her out and doubled down your
selfish hoard.
__ kerotin for unburnt lash.
__
.
__ with a room to see
anyone who wanted in.
__ sexy legs.
__
but i am young and do not know
of love as basic flaw.
__
they prop her up with pills and flowers,
watch her sit for minutes, hours,
just how long
it takes to change her mind.
__ with sped up wafts of jerky vine - anything but luck can hear good
value.
__
32 i recommend words that can never hurt enough to do the trick, the
worthy pain, that brings relief.
__
they sweat and toil in the holes
they crash and crash to age in style.
__ the real burden is dark matter pressing on the brain.
__
and i too feel that hollow there inside my ribs, as if i was not one,
but more, a vapour trail perhaps or tree as i in televised redoubt.
__ .
__ i came out clear as sea for sure, a patient man.
__ blink nudged and abundant.
__
i struggle in this western wind,
to light my cigarette.
__
looking in at bedlam walls, looking in at stone rope hardship
or spending sprees with hope as credit, too long now, we haven't
smiled.
__ crowded raft.
__ memorised the side of the packet.
__
everybody already regretted.
__ i saw myself, a pitted turd.
__
short shift or long
you must endure.
__
46 i'll
hold it close and to my lips
to kiss it cold and sibling while
you labour through the legend
mud flats, bubbled, grey and greasy
like a boarder's cake.
__ too wrong to climb the stairs, the yolk, the splitting palm.
__
Brothers
who comes to my door now dressed as a goat?
science is friendly because it has no soft underbelly it has no reason
to fear the occasional tickle compared to commerce it's twilight
sailing stopped now for the winter break it is warm even so there is
nothing wrong with here as such.
__ we longed to enter swollen grids of sense and tones, to give the
past as squiggles, squid ink, maps of mountains; gods of sea and time.
__ even though we know them all, we tried in tongues to speak the
world.
__
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cyan, turquoise, manganese
the larger glass is mine, so please,
leave it there, alone and cold.
__
before you took my wife
to open clear her soul,
and drill it like an oil hole.
__ sworn in by rods and cones, tongue's bumps, the bumpkin light,
emplaced for easy truth.
__ that all the heroes gathered stone to build
the forms of western thought,
with sovereign subject as their king.
__ .
__ tricornered forge in progress still.
__ days and pills , kafka and out the window for a ciggie then pleasure
in the sun old gardening gods selling yen the blurry ketch the morning
star system IX motorway quiet as the princess drove.
__ tribesmen, squinting, berlin wall.
__ his head was clean.
__ or else they let the murky go, or shut it back secure.
__ i drank down my joe.
__ .
__ even so, i have my plans.
__ He's an explorer of depths and a master of them in his way.
__ horsing round in mud needs drones remoteness, car park exits.
__ flake fed daily.
__
and tells me who will fall his voice is like a clarinet the rules are
syrupy to the ear, gluey dripping spittable grasping filling like
organic chicken the sporty james who let the children drown the climber
grown in thatcher's britain, labouring on one side.
__
a phone in each hand and nobody to call or calling you.
__ he jumped straight in and poked his snout above the slick.
__ she must have thought it opportune,
to test her luck, the luck of change in choppy, homeless seas.
__ that central sound.
__ at a kerbed correction (cocaine sonnet op.
__
3
neptune sits on the couch.
__
and truly beaut
him dappled beaut.
__ man was not made to dwell on this, to chase the monsters in our
souls.
__
at longing and nothing
the flash there in your eyes is a perfect prediction.
__
45
there is a vast tower and on each floor a thousand souls.
__ 1 - keyless entry) - consistency slows at a stale pace, the slow
space of old tales, everything an affidavit.
__
and speckled grit,
ocean dirt, hard rolled down inside my towel
inside its bag.
__
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born without ancestors, cut
from the ground of being.
__ took him back.
__ we were meant to shine like coal.
__ with nothing
hands.
__
she tells the nurse she's feeling well.
__
i clambered in through
rain,
the weatherboard, broken van.
__ your mother cried out once beneath her fold-away canopy "my son, the
doctor, is drowning!" .
__
i see it now, from out the front.
__ i know it such as it knows me or is my chassis, straight and true.
__
won done lightly.
__ and in the black sea port the riggers recall winning drives, the
carbon river makes for ground as if to glug out words of praise, as if
to beg the jack to free it fast and spin it out in plastic cans
3
were the admins [sporting loveable phones] really trying to get the
settings right and why did they all speak so heartily about the
progress of the review? it's as if they haven't clicked onto the
everyoneish brochures that we all have to give to new people- picking
out the beauty spots the round heads and the vernix people so new that
it burns the shingling face of the giant smurf inflatable in warm metro
air.
__
they said that we were out of date in a fishing village
and walked amongst people of colour and knew their lives and fear, knew
their want, their lesser image, their need for more.
__
for leaks or sadness, trailing off,
pulled toward silence.
__ Magazines plasma screens, the unpleasure of Habermas.
__ precious time with you, in discord- jamboree- where once old nags
went on their way, alone, a week from all saints day; they crouch down
now in sprinting pose, their spindly limbs straight off the rack from
darrow's store-for hats and more-a bargain backed by cash in hand .
__ silence.
__
wormwood holed for gorse and worse, i pick and worm for shimmy's sake.
__
partially autonomous,
my influence was uncaused
or the cause of itself.
__
these annotations paraphrase
my own drab lot, a dero of
amusement parks
who haunts the shore
in cold, unyielding months.
__ never close to
winning back
the only thing i should have tried much
harder not to lose.
__
2 so nanna was sent at the end of her life to a river north of perth.
__ inside his tank.
__
respect it please.
__ left quite soon.
__
Smoker's Yard
39
this peace or glee or joy or hope.
__
27
for recognition or deception, indirection,
only me.
__
cannover hold, cannover hold.
__
i shake for jim and johnny's sake.
__ relief, and freedom.
__
without induction, we'd call it love
41
it's clear in you,
this gift of taking care.
__ i set him up, back there.
__ Hot Towels
1
the wire hums, the airport board-delays and tarmac fumy air finally
when space is offered your luggage banked against a turning sign the
metal sleeve whose loop suggests more heat and genes and buy some
condoms in the loo (quickly, bleach your accent down unlearn your
failed youth in time to make it launch another blast at life while
folks at home pronounce you free of vice and miss you frankly everyone
here is thinking of you sweet child and wonder when you'll burn a
signal free of where you've gone that country will uncustom you, with
tea-leaves, lotto coffee spoons; it's men a monstrous plague of hats, a
hill quite free of change and hope-another impulse clangs and stops.
__
i wrote it out today.
__ and took my troubles with him when he went.
__ in powder, came.
__
i know you'll take a coke to fizz your gut.
__ i will be and one day i will go and i will not look
back and i will not think of the past as time
for time as me is always more
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bound on a weeping limb, dipping out across
the tarn
.
__ so i said priggishly, 'time is rationed to keep us safe from running
late' our country is foremost and the pigs chomp hard on the pumpkin
rusk
closer now, sight lines at the surface, shore to perspex dome bent
back, in flame, i came.
__ .
__
2
my gargoyle sees for me, the aching gap.
__ depends on the weather, the riddles, reserve bank circumspection,
nobody with a brain would choose to install engine blocks for hours at
a time.
__ and further on.
__ the death drive, dressed in rivers feeling rivers) Plato Park Torres
strait spend and smoke too much have sex get rich, engender birth, a
river north a river north of perth
My friend in England wool country in absentia i stretched then slowed
toward a train and crossed her going down.
__ and then some kind of polyphonic chore.
__
they take me in, and move my mouth,
hydraulic like a movie mask.
__
or writing as if it was music, and all that muscle control and all that
thinking.
__ i brought him out.
__
to drink it down,
the eidolon of engram bay.
__
highland lake without a rim, fire burning, pale sky, planet thought as
proof of space as universe that knows itself through other things
alone.
__ farrago, the far away banana quilt or resolute, the crumbling prince
of staying put, his descant worst or worsted drain.
__
she admitted human being, admitted
crucial facts.
__
was stiff with salt,
cracked and sweet.
__ i kept him wet.
__
you like the sweet, the stirring up, shaken, bruised,
in morning rain
i bless the minus riddled self
the failing self.
__
bold eagle swing by jimmy tork and platted mong for gorries sake.
__ double-barrelled, last shot at new rain.
__ .
__ i see it all in aisles of wear and travel lengths to medicate,
they siphon salts, from this same sea, but say
i call the things i see
through an angled mirror.
__ settle instead for copy-cat burgers, sidelong looks at the opera
house and bright green biscuits.
__
we must endure for our children and our parents who had such honest
hopes.
__ listening for the chime of chapel bells back there in town engrams
in the bedrock or patterns in the sand.
__
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drenched again, i shook the water free, to me it was her way of saying
you are free of me for happy authors leaving prints, for editors with
helpful hints, the paddlepop stick was slick with the syrup it lent to
the wrapper
wrecked between the seats.
__
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burnt tongue by jove in bussle route,
for gantry sergeant tapped a root ball climax version
slightly.
__
or groan in pinkish wean, tum dum and diamond, poisson, fig or hat.
__ too much sun and wanting more.
__
and name you labour.
__
using words that are not known will only make it worse.
__
you see, i've done my reading too.
__
Brothers
42
i don't reflect on heavy
seas that lack a sense of fun.
__
Del-Ray Surf Guitar Comp
upbeat, quick legged.
__
the poem you found at the end of the warren shoving an Algerian from
his nest of plastic seats- when you turned him over he looked like a
2nd empire tortoise not some victim/symbol of gaulish bloody mindedness
half-coherent spray about the great novel of Martello towers, bowls of
broken bread, breast milk, sodomy and astroturf.
__
the bangum bangum, sink.
__ after shapes, there's sphere and tower.
__ The coffee rooms are filled with flats.
__ sun setting over Caulfield we wedged the final clamp and restumped
the asset; squared to 1-e ; maybe a million if three people want it.
__ when questions asked
i lit the lane, back lit the lighter's glare.
__ " at ourselves, at our fate, at the new sea wall.
__ .
__
back back back and in to rented swarm,
the pigeon fold, i pick and worm for fiscous sake interred on ice and
immy shake.
__ or even now with me how would i know?
coral bleaches then grows bright across her sheets
her frame, she rolls toward the light she doesn't say
she rolls her frame just
there as the sun submits.
__ familiar, basic tools left dumb and dry to play at dunes and oxidise
upon the rocks.
__
for tamarind and ezyblow,
for parentine and gingero
for travertine and frankincense
it's time to settle
one brave fact
i've come to get my girlfriend back.
__ we would call each other friends if not for gum trees, like a
painting, smelling of oil and lemonade.
__
intending to return,
i left it on the bar top towel.
__
with much more wood than we could use.
__
and sudden change
i'm thankful for.
__ a little bit blind, in the pitch, reflections worm to insight's
rotten core.
__
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but you are heroic to me.
__
and so you tame them,
keep them dull.
__ i saw him at the docks.
__
the chips shed steam, a cause to
let the
periscope relax.
__ he liked that best.
__
they live and breathe and climb the stairs and never know which way is
up.
__
our friendship's grand you might have said,
you've learned the art to ask for none.
__
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a painful loop.
__ listing sabot.
__
from game machine
to game machine.
__ mixed with wet.
__ Sometimes he reads the economist to get an overall picture.
__ the disc shim bleeds the outro dust and frontal tines.
__ in soggy socks.
__
for jewels and coal to grist his toad.
__
huegenot refuse niks dragging tripods all over the east side of
town-remember high school and all the lavish rivalries, as if from a
small country we wrestled for middling positions denied the chance to
lead our distant country, if only because the words we used were deemed
unlikely and still you continued on as if your nascent self obliged
narration with mummy back from work and spread along the sofa there
with a vodka and a redbull in her hand.
__ i wonder know with cbt and act that robots feel more love than us.
__ brought tea and smoke.
__
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we're always trying to replace science as if it's some huge burden.
__
the trick it seems to selfish me
is help and help some more.
__
their girth would plug a badger's hole.
__ bun sung auto signage scored.
__
.
__ every day i wake with less energy.
__ But he is not fun! "you cannot fall beneath the waves the water
catches every weight and slows its plunge as if it floats" so drown red
cancer's slapping claw, braided death, did you enjoin to quell the
endless tet a tet of broken love your brother ghost of engram bay was
always better looking and now he's more successful too.
__
i memorise nothing, am invaded by failure.
__
they cut it off and held it high
so forest winds could peer inside,
and rasp or grate as trill but still he saw, atop the pike, whole
worlds
unfold, more out than in.
__ the campaign trail was short and boring and led to a bull in a field
blocking our way to the creek your rejections turned me on, as if maybe
you could overthrow all this weakness by quoting Richard Ford in John
Calvin jeans like most women you thought yourself a blessed torch
diana's neon lamp your innermost thoughts highlighting paracelsus in
the pup tent, touching paradise a mix of light and ginger beer, that
bull who bars the way but also wades the creek- a nice clean strike the
perfect fly everything belonging to the realm of freedom a twisting
shout a blood knot and an arcing loop an undercurrent of catchiness.
__
or um dum slightly.
__ the queerest bloke, more ghost than that.
__ you stored them
in her case notes, added theory,
charismatic codes.
__ you said it had to give, "we're the same as Guatemala".
__
Morecombe Bay
33
massive time shifts were common in the lake shore
commuter belt
where i grew up.
__ soggy fool.
__ at kitchen, bird by paper window power power open end.
__
the way a witch will spoil her toads.
__ no more against the odds or
becoming a man.
__
he knew them not but they knew him.
__
but please don't think i'll name it
keenly, petit objet a.
__ .
__
my senses are useless.
__
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i declare you fit to work.
__ the petit plan, the grotty orb.
__ laughter, sapphires and rhino horns that turn to dust in the
overhead bins.
__ i broke the bowl, the glass flat seas in doldrum blue, i beat
myself.
__ Viva France, Viva Kant, Viva San Antonio
2
the seams of a star (cracknell's chocolate broken eye) brittany coast
in clamps again petitions, prisms, scholars' schisms; "cross the span;
on coloured moss that swaddles covered stones" - the moon machine will
gondolier the thought canal-to spar with owls and oars, and bi-fold
doors on pancake day, oh .
__
and park their mass in tourist holes.
__
Submitted to Agni - week of 6/3/2012
Has Been Bay
drastic rents in social time mean spiral webs, staircase storms and
crowds intent on public hits; history glass and light-filled light
(catalyst, mover, chemistry prac) titanic struggles culminations
recruit the words that wonder how we came to speak and margaret asked
me "can we go just once again, to the beach for a look.
__ to brush our teeth and do as we are told.
__
31
this knowledge that i have is missed by lights and curried crowds, they
fight my truth, which shrinks so quick, the turtles head, i claim no
claim, although i know the animals.
__ astronaut and break of day.
__ spoke to my son.
__
your flat shape,
sweaty in the cold, the memory of
city shocks, at the end of the lane,
someone, a farmer
by plane before the rain stopped
crops will rise, around them,
rusted frames.
__ it soon was clear.
__
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from this pain, i think, beauty will come.
__ such he was.
__ the sand wiped clean she sits unfolding paper mints?
the driver on the course, redaction for the sake of it meal steel gogol
Pele sequestered in the bookie's nest, Mentone.
__
though not as dense as you, black sun.
__ on his nose he wore a ring.
__ nothing there.
__ a super bloke.
__
my wife is mine no longer so
i drink alone in foreshore taverns
press on nimbly, lurching, deft and
clumsy, pushing to forget.
__ they liked him too.
__ 30
the whale's jump.
__ i peel and shake for johnny now that pill and him are in the hold.
__ he's shaven and his clothes are clean.
__
second stringers scoop fresh clumps of oval lawn, settling pallets on
the slope of a skull, to close with
airily, seals on top of convenient twigs (suburban sonnets).
__ looking out.
__
__
__
This makes me feel very guilty.
__
__ In recent years I am increasingly drawn to literary fiction rather
than sociology as a vehicle to convey meaning and insight about the
social world.
__
__ It's needed now for the same reason as it has always been needed.
__
__ It may be what Freud was writing about when he said that 'creative'
writers are bountifully imbued with the right to imagine in public and
for the public - although surely most of what becomes a public wish
starts out as a private, possibly illicit desire.
__
__ And seeing is just that.
__
__ .
__
__ G Bissinger, Friday Night Lights, p.
__
__ In a simpler language this is merely a matter of bread and circuses
on a global level.
__
__ I think this is probably true.
__
__ php%3Ftitle=107&chapter=20794&layout=html&Itemid=27
Glen Street, November 2011
First of all I'd like to thank you for agreeing to let me ask you these
questions and also for agreeing in turn to ask me a few things about
myself and what I do as a writer and a researcher.
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__ com/>,viewed on 24 March 2011.
__
__ When I place this privilege on the edge of an epoch (modernity) I do
not mean that modernity vouchsafes this privilege.
__
__ Graves-Brown (eds) Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture, London
Routledge pp.
__
__
Malpas, J.
__
__ I suppose I was interested intellectually in things in high school
that most of the other kids weren't and I never quite fit in with the
bad boys or the good boys.
__
__ The normals then are saved from constant stastus anxiety by the
knowledge that these demi-gods exist in a parralelle world andindeed
are created by the mass audience itself.
__
__
Kundera, M.
__
__
Rose, G.
__
__ (eds) Visuality/Materiality: Images, Objects and Practices,
Aldershot: Ashgate Press 171-190.
__
__ Distant suffering is seldom felt in the bones.
__
__
We've talked about the place of plain language in English academic
traditions and, in the work we've done together, your role has often
been to pull me back from excessive textual enjoyment (which may or may
not be borne out of youthful enthusiasm and a background in the English
Department) and setting me back on course to a more mundane but also
more friendly and approachable kind of prose.
__
__ There are a succession of depictions, the most notable and well
known is the tasting of the madeleine cake soaked in tea, uneven paving
stones in the courtyard of the home of the Guermantes family which
serves as catalyst for a lasting and involuntary memory.
__
__ 1976.
__
__ *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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__ php>, viewed on 24 March 2011.
__
__ 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.
__
__ Agency is not limited to the human subject, but rather, agency
resides in the heterogeneous networks (or assemblies or associations)
of humans and non-humans, which can be reworked in a multiple ways.
__
__ , Bleak Mind, Penguin, London, 1985.
__
__ It is helpful to see objects as polysemic, in that they have the
potential to generate different effects that change over time.
__
__ (2008) The Comfort of Things, Cambridge: Polity.
__
__ Don't worry, I'm not going to recite any dreams here.
__
__ In postcolonial studies too, the gulf between subject and object of
knowledge is sometimes held to be intractable and the demands on the
empathic imagination too great to be overcome.
__
__ leishman-associates.
__
__
Even so, the post-social term in philosophy studies is timely.
__
__
Equally, bestowing the right to claim a right on the excluded other
outside of formal legislative or juridical settings doesn't have to be
an earth-shattering act.
__
__ These differences are generational, disciplinary, to do with our
geographical background, our psychological tendencies, working habits,
institutional identities and so on.
__
__ The silent 'other' who is designated here might be conspicuous by
virtue of her race, or her clothing, her accent, or her gender or even
her sexuality.
__
__ But later we hide in our minds or seek friends we don't even like.
__
__ (2012) 'Visuality/materiality: introducing a manifesto for practice'
in Rose.
__
__ And how pathetic we are at seeing our own sameness, our own glossy
conformity-this self-inflicted cloning that ensures the important
signals cut straight through.
__
__ In other words, he is arguing the meaning of objects is dependent on
an encounter with humans and their qualities are only realised through
social construction involving human agency.
__
__ More recently, Blunt and Dowling (2006) and King (2008) have sought
to extend the foci of philosophy research by a closer interrogation of
domestic spaces and how these shape identity formation.
__
__ This is because things - a book in its red binding, like the rest -
at the moment we notice them, turn within us something immaterial, akin
to all the preoccupations or sensations we have at that particular
time, and mingle indissolubly with them.
__
__
In this paper, I contigufy, statements that have concatenatory value in
the wounded language of para-stocracy, the shrapnel of high culture,
like the bird on the cover of Paul Muldoon's book or the people down
the end of my road who don't have cable, collars up against the cold.
__
__ That nothing is staked to it, makes it all the more indeterminate or
subject to influence at any angle and/or velocity.
__
__ Milan Kundera (1988:128) in his essay 'The art of the novel' wrote
'When we study, discuss, analyse a reality, we analyse it as it appears
in our mind, in our memory.
__
__
.
__
__ What does this have to do with pleasure and morality and literature
and metaphors? You don't even know these people.
__
__ This makes social contact uncomfortable so mainly he just avoids it
altogether.
__
__
Because we didn't all do that.
__
__ 479.
__
__
Frosh, P.
__
__ Our government is fiscally responsible.
__
__ The thingish I is not necessarily pleasant to contemplate too
deeply.
__
__ 5.
__
__ There's inequality between ations.
__
__ When I see something my whole life is there, incarnate in this
vision, in this act of seeing.
__
__ This at least is what happens in my in-laws mind.
__
__
It is evident that philosophy research has been informed by the
contribution of anthropology and, as a consequence, has extended its
scope in relation to what constitutes the 'home'.
__
__ As she writes 'one needs all one's senses to do justice to material
reality' (quoted in Rose and Tolia-Kelly (2012).
__
__ Maria Jolas).
__
__
Saunders, P.
__
__ Politically, we might speak of recognition primarily in the present
tense, but a good test of academic openness has always also been
historical in nature.
__
__ Proust and psychoanalysis.
__
__ , The Australian Oxford Dictionary, Oxford University Press, South
Melbourne, 1999.
__
__ The CEO becomes a star performer in this case, not unlike a pop
singer or world-class athlete.
__
__
Nor do I leave myself where I have not been as a token or icon of
calamitous over-production.
__
__ Aris Fioretos (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins UP, 1994).
__
__ (1997) 'The social construction of home', Journal of architectural
and planning research, 14, 226-245.
__
__ My 'academic work is unpaid but surely it is more than a hobby.
__
__ Just because Terence Malick aims for a Leavisite high moral
seriousness doesn't mean we have to pretend to enjoy his films.
__
__ 22.
__
__ (KM C 330)
By interpolating soil a there arises a new differential rent I; upon
this new basis, differential rent II likewise develops in an altered
form.
__
__ I've been thinking lately about oblivion and I really do feel,
writing here in Tasmania, that oblivion describes my discursive
location.
__
__ I'm saying this because I don't want to pretend that what I'm
writing is original or special.
__
__ This admission is akin to your own indication that you couldn't
write 'overly elaborate' academic writing even if you wanted to.
__
__ .
__
__ And why do people tell you things you already know, that anybody
would know had they done the things you'd done, that anybody would know
who knew you'd done those things.
__
__ Many fashionable academics adopt a style of writing that seeks to
position themselves in the market as experts.
__
__ Serve the money-god, or do without women--those are the only
alternatives.
__
__ Much of this pain has to do with the place of truth in academic
writing.
__
__ 86.
__
__
Jacques Lacan, "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function,"
Ecrits: A Selection, Norton, New York, 2004.
__
__ Financial centres.
__
__
Urry, J.
__
__ Informed by the writing of Marx (1869/1976) and Veblen (1899),
writers such as Bourdieu (date) viewed material objects primarily in
relation to their significance for wider society.
__
__ And always to know as well that selling a million books or being
reviewed in the LRB doesn't automatically mean that your work is any
good.
__
__ .
__
__ She liked those churches, like shapes of grey paper, breasting the
stream of the Strand.
__
__ In non-specialist circles, this framing of the self in elitist
and/or grandiose ways can often cause friction.
__
__ .
__
__ But when exclusivist or fundamentalist positions are not shackled to
extreme projects such as 'ethnic cleansing' or institutionalised
racism, they tend to be expressed in ordinary meanness.
__
__ (1991) 'Entangled objects: exchange, material Culture, and
Colonialism in the Pacific' Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
__
__ All the opinions of the world agree in this, that pleasure is our
end, though we make use of divers means to attain it: they would,
otherwise, be rejected at the first motion; for who would give ear to
him that should propose affliction and misery for his end? http://oll.
__
__
Foot passengers, jostling one another's umbrellas, in a general
infection of ill-temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners,
where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and
sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new
deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points
tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.
__
__ What enables objects to hold or retain memory and affect? A reading
of Proust suggests that objects are embedded in relational structures
sustained by the interaction between agents and the objects of agency
(by action and movement).
__
__ (1869/1976) Capital, Fowkes B (trans.
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__ 8
Europe doesn't exist.
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__ During the 99.
__
__
Fourth, places and things, no less than memory and affect, possess the
same essential indeterminacy - it is the establishment of relation that
enables memory and place and thing to be mutually determined, each in
relation to the other.
__
__
.
__
__ However, even though Hobart may have some of the characteristics of
a cosmopolitan city, the sheer fact of its small size makes that
urbanity feel paper thin, forced even, as if co-ordinated remotely by
some well-meaning federal bureaucrat in a far off (and genuinely
cosmopolitan) centre.
__
__ The home also operates as a metaphorical screen (tabula rasa) upon
which we can project a whole range of emotions including fear, desire,
regret, pride, superiority and ambition-projections which are by no
means conscious nor indeed entirely unconscious either.
__ ough when I don't think of friends who have moved to glamorous
cities like London and New York and imagine what shape my own life
might have taken if I had stayed away just a little bit longer.
__
__ Think of fat people who think they are large and powerful.
__
__
Proust, M.
__
__ "You cannot conquer Time," an unheeding lover is warned by the
clocks of the city.
__
__ I hope society looks hard at my words.
__
__ He is basically a recluse and the reason for that is he feels
superior to most other people but they don't seem to agree with him.
__
__ All this is not some 'fault' in our vision, it is vision.
__
__ Value claims are seldom presented as negotiable.
__
__ So I'm reading Habermas now and finding him amazing and optimistic
whereas in the past I thought he was too technical, too dry and too
optimistic about the chances of any of us completing the unfinished
project of enlightened modernity.
__
__
Let me telegraph some of the problems that might arise here.
__
__ It seems quite clear that Malick's obsession with philosophical film
- the language and logic of image - must have something to do with his
problems with Gilbert Ryle as a graduate student back in the 70s.
__
__ My dad was just trying to outdo me and impress me with his
derring-do and show me that media clichés about 'danger zones' are
conveniently overblown, which I suppose, is not the worst way to prove
to your adult children that you still have a certain mastery of the
world.
__ __
__ '
So what is it that defines the workable scope of a community of trust?
Rootless cosmopolitanism is fine for intellectuals but most people live
in a place defined by space, by time, by language, perhaps by religion,
maybe - however regrettably - by colour and so forth.
__
__ Try buying waterfront property on a retail wage.
__
__
Judt, T.
__
__ Yet the meaning we derive from an object can never be complete.
__
__ What facts? Beauty trumps reason almost everytime.
__
__ 10-21
Mack, A.
__
__ I gave that paper on depopulation anxiety and you walked towards me
from the audience.
__
__ It is true though that there is considerable variation in the pitch,
tone, discipline and intensity of our Father's inestimable prose as it
is built across the three volumes.
__
__ If he fails there is no safety net to catch him before he hits the
ground.
__
__ People to line our pockets.
__
__ Yellowstone bison migrating to the poisonous river
To wield a commanding voice (WIZARD OF OZ), keeping a little bottle
there in the booth to piss into so the nitrate doesn't catch fire.
__
__ The word equal here is used to describe some basic equality of being
or essence, an equality of souls perhaps in the eyes of Janus or our
won jealous monotheistic god.
__
__ To prove that Judith Butler is correct by recruiting Derrida to
argue against Hegel, only means that internal checks and balances are
working.
__ Clearly, there a issues here with the handling of the subject-object
split particularly in terms of the question of how non-human objects
really possess agency and so on.
__
__
Bowie, M.
__
__ Berkely was working in a similar vein when he argued that "only the
vulgar believe that properties reside in objects".
__
__ (1991) 'The Berlin key or how to do things with words' in P.
__
__ (Karx: Capital 3: 714_
To speak aggressively here then is also to speak aggressively about the
state of culture in the west and also to have risen above the endless
renewal and recycling that passes for mass entertainment.
__
__
CICERO SAYS "that to study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's
self to die.
__
__ The central idea running through this multilayered and beautifully
evocative book is the claim that only through recollection are we able
to make our experiences significant.
__
__ The Louisiana Purchase__Hannah Montana- not really my wife's name
Richard Sennett playing the Cello finally like Jacqueline Du Pre with
mittens on.
__
__ In this last mode, the right to bestow a right also reveals one of
the basic limits of cosmopolitanism as it seems to manifest most
commonly, and exposes it also as emergent at best and marginal at
worst.
__
__ And that there meaning is only activated through our human agency.
__
__ (2010) Stuff, Cambridge: Polity Press.
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__ org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.
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__ This is an easy question to answer.
__
__ The average astralian 220 grand.
__
__ It starts early.
__
__ Obviously I don't write for money or promotions.
__
__ I failed to publish my PhD thesis and have really focussed on poetry
over the last five or so years.
__
__ Shoot people if you want.
__
__ 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.
__
__ .
__
__ There was Midland with its improbably tall buildings, glassy and
shimmering in the sun like misplaced tanning reflectors.
__
__ As Miller writes: 'Objects are important, not because they are
evident and physically constrain or enable, but quite the opposite.
__
__ It requires a particular confidence and belief in the certainty of
what one is arguing for that I lack.
__
__ These data demonstrate that that visual orienting decisions reflect
the specific social content of visual information and provide the first
experimental evidence that monkeys spontaneously discriminate images of
others based on social status.
__
__ London: Routledge.
__
__ Can it be so simple as mere projection?
Let me say again then, because I have forgotten if I have said it yet,
that this story has no plot.
__
__ Was the American West (not buffalo bill - but the most recently
fruitful, abundant and agent orange resistant scion of the root tree of
Hellenic culture - that is the etats uni - being punished for
supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur War? Was it the oil shock that OPEC
imposed as a response to this involvement? Was it Nixon taking the
dollar off the gold standard? Was it the death Of Auden? Was it the
first and only US space station sent up into promethean orbit? Or was
it simply the problem of industrial overproduction of which Ernest
Mandel and more recently Robert Brenner and Richard Dienst (chardonnay
socialists or conscience of a generation?) have spoken so eloquently
of? Is the world really going to hell in a hand basket? When did this
start? What about all the good in the world? How could we even begint o
start thining about this problem? What kind of measure would we use?
How do we choose the moral goods and bads through which we might frame
our project? Is this all just a continuation of the saturnine
indignation of Spengler and the Frankfurt School.
__
__ I also think though that occupying a place in the shadows, on the
margins of the university system is a kind of privilege.
__
__ What too should we make of Wittgensteins argument that world
consists of everything that is the case.
__
__ 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.
__
__ He would also make sure his dependents were fed and clothed, the
children educated, marriages and funerals arranged and paid for.
__
__ His friends seem to see the objective proof of this claim so long as
it is clear.
__
__ This is made all the more crucial because of the fragility of our
lone country status here in Tasmania.
__
__
Harper's Magazine, April 2011, p.
__
__ How were literary critics and cultural critics supposed to respond
to the ascent of evil to the thorne of the single world system after
1973? Had Satan got free of his infernal jail once again? Had he sprung
from his lake of cold fire, realising as he id in Paradise lost that
there was nothing to stop his attemptinging once and again to wrest
control of our universe from the creator god and the creative good.
__
__ Aspire to be as rich as Warren Buffett.
__
__ 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.
__
__ What is clear from Ginzburg's work and from Greenblatt's too is that
the past is another country, and that they do do things differently
there.
__
__ We make a habit of comparing and contrasting our own places and
modes of dwelling with the habitats of others and the habitats of our
own past(s)- and there is a progress narrative here that needs to be
satisfied if we are to think of ourselves as 'getting ahead' in life
even if the rising exchange 'value' of our homes is really only
inflationary, fungible with other minds in the same price bracket and
bound to return in time to the depressing long term averages described
by Robert Shiller and others.
__
__ One saw few signs either of private wealth or of public spirit.
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__ com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574438831789972954.
__
__ 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.
__
__ In the final part of the paper, we sketch out the implications for
philosophy of a more extensive 'object' focussed research agenda that
might continue to add depth to our understanding of the human self and
selves by describing the means by which the consciously and
unconsciously known haecceity of our homes can safeguard our identities
in conditions of tension, stress and troubling social change.
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Cresswell, T.
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__ com/2006/09/badiou-event-truth-subject.
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__ (Eds) 1986 Introduction: commodities and the politics of value.
__
__ Always it had started in a sort of cold-blooded wilfulness and ended
in some mean, callous desertion.
__
__ The full automation of thought in the absence of meta-narratives
produces elaborate games.
__
__ 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.
__
__
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.
__
__ I also write for the pleasure of creating something, you know I
think there are endorphins released when you exercise your brain or
something.
__
__ Objects have the capacity to elicit meaning and our encounters with
objects are never fixed but ongoing (see Hurdley 2006:729).
__
__ I was still a kid.
__
__ Concurrently, within the realm of philosophy and architecture, there
has been an interest on spatial and topographic concerns (see for
example Bachelard 1969; Malpas 1999).
__
__ Such speculation is no dounbt useful as well as pleasurable.
__
__ The trains were still running then and the suburban shopping malls
in Glenorchy, Clarence and Kingston hadn't been constructed.
__
__ My mother in law is a keen defended of the bell curve.
__
__
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.
__
__ But Richard Ford says that we connect too much.
__
__ With this 'real unreality' in mind, I would like to contend that the
intensity of the lurid, exotic fiction of 'my' harbour side suburb is
an index of the desire that drives it, a desire that is not mine alone
either but emerges more properly from what Fredric Jameson called 'the
political unconscious'.
__
__ Yet as Buck Morss (2002 136) has argued, our knowledge is acquired
through memory, our bodies, our reading of history.
__
__ Ten or a dozen of them there had been.
__
__ And this must always be so for someone writing a fictocritical
silence that mouths a deeper lack of reason.
__
__ "Discourse Ethics: Notes on a Program of Philosophical
Justification.
__
__ This is one way in which inequality is dealt with.
__
__ Citing as sole authority the original (supposedly more profound)
draft version of Celan's remark to Bender, France-Lanord dismisses
Levinas's reading in the following terms: "A slightly more serious
examination of the poet's whole work [i.
__
__ Which says nothing about the horrible cliché of the disgruntled
graduate who has been forgotten by God.
__
__ Once one has gained a certain distance from academic and/or
ideological (that is thought-based in the broadest terms) movements or
credos or slogans that one formally found to be unavoidable and/or
seductive in a longstanding attachment kind of way, it is hard to
recreate the urgency and persuasion of the hegemonic text of that
tradition.
__
__ And please do check in on their GDP per capita, provery rates and so
on in five years time - they will not improve!
Meanwhile Prince William will wander around looking like a wussy,
mummy's boy (which of course he is - or more precisely a grandmaummy
boy and I have no sympathy for the glitzy, self-promoting Pricness
Diana) and urban intellectual will try and tell you that the
aristocracy disappeared after the industrial revolution.
__
__ Car buffs who worked at fried chicken restaurants would have just as
much chance as the afore mentioned CEOs to buy an Aston AMrtin and
thereby receive the recongitoin reserved for such a purchase.
__
__ Sometimes I feel as if T.
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__ 1; translation mine).
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__ You used to come and visit me and always told me that I seemed fine.
__
__ Gossip spreads around.
__
__ So writing for me is a way I can both understand the issues that I
am investigating and reduce the risk that the reader will not
misconstrue my arguments.
__
__ The normals then are saved from constant stastus anxiety by the
knowledge that these demi-gods exist in a parralelle world andindeed
are created by the mass audience itself.
__
__ .
__
__ A star may have shone in the east the day Barack Obama became
president.
__
__ Think of the compassionless achievers who yearn only to belittle
others.
__
__ I contrasted universalism with bounded separatism and conceptual
clarity with epistemological murkiness.
__
__ I don't read a lot of poetry and I have a terrible memory for new
poems and new poets.
__
__ Any further elaboration on these dialectics will be metaphorical or
focussed on the products of mind.
__
__
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.
__
__
'We are confronted every day with painful images and stories about the
growing numbers of homeless people, about criminal violence toward
children, and about the plights of those exiled from their homelands.
__
__ I might even say that I felt entitled to write poetry because I have
always been an avid reader and a serious student of English.
__
__
Let me put it this way.
__
__ Chakrabarty (eds), Cosmopolitanism, Duke University Press, Durham
and London, pp.
__
__ To quote Hegel is thought to be good.
__
__ Whose to say, maybe his essays would have been better than his
films.
__
__ And I do mean lone country in the strongest sense - magi, myth,
motherland, tribesmen, the river Styx.
__
__ The games allow for a momentary restaging of opt-in patriotism that
has always been more or less achievable only through a massive
financial outlay and specialised event co-ordination sophisticated
enough to achieve a scale of spectacle carnivalisation sufficient to
momentarily silence or sublimate intra-national fears, divisions, class
and regional conflicts that otherwise define our dispersed,
group-resistant private lives.
__
__ It is still to be seen whether post-social work by scholars like
Bruno Latour or Katherin Hayles will really be able to displace the
human from our privileged locus at the centre of the world of meaning,
sense, fact, awareness, sentience, consciousness, spirit, perception,
visualisation and so on.
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__
Hoskins J (1998) Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Story of
People's Life.
__
__ Australia is the land of the fair go.
__
__ Forster famously writes "Only Connect" but in one of the Frank
Bascombe novels, either Independence Day or The Lay of the Land,
Richard Ford suggests that we connect too much.
__
__ In other words, the objects are viewed as emblematic of wider more
objective social values and mores rather than subjective identity
formation.
__
__
I'm America's nightmare
young black and just dont give a fuck
I just want to get high and live it up
so fuck the 9 to 5
and why you tryin to slave us
with minimum wages
slammin my niggas up in cages
changing their behaivors
Onyx, "Last Dayz" from the LP All We Got Iz Us
Dermot Healy in a Waremind near Heathrow, reading Dylan Thomas into the
wee small hours.
__
__ They look too long for plucking guitar strings, but I may be wrong
about that.
__
__
Now let me try and frame a question.
__
__
Baudrillard
Blunt, A.
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__ D.
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__ Constructions of the non-cosmopolitan past thus serve a similar
function to the science fiction narratives whose fictional futures
allow us to rethink our own present as the past of an imagined world
that is yet to come.
__
__ If it's a close call they'll argue all the way through to the end of
lunch-time and then slump off back to class annoyed with each other for
wasting their break in talk when they could have out trying to best
each other in the more basic language of sport.
__
__ 'Affordances are relationships between features of objects and
abilities of human beings; they are attributable to the intrinsic
features that objects posses by virtue of their make up, and are
specified in relation to an individual' (Coolen 2006:187).
__
__
This is surely not an unfamiliar story.
__
__ His mind moved backwards, over his ten years of adult life.
__
__ 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.
__
__ 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.
__
__ People often say that they are writing for themselves, in a private
language perhaps, but I have seen enough clinical madness.
__
__
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.
__
__ Oxford: Peter Lang.
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__
Berlusconi is our own Kung Fu Panda.
__
__
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.
__
__ On this view, cosmopolitanism also names a fundamental openness to
alterity that goes beyond nations and ethnicities to the other factors
or strata of identity formation such as gender, sexuality, age,
disability and so on.
__
__ Private property and bureaucracies are partly designed to enable
older men to hold on to their dominance of younger men.
__
__
I want to declare here that this work is absent from money circuits and
does not aim to accumulate points or confer bragging rights on me or
any institution.
__
__
On the other hand: if our philosophy is of poor quality; if we think we
deserve better accommodation than we have; if we grew up in one kind of
socio-economic area and have been forced to live in another that we
find unpleasant or uncomfortable; our sense of social injustice can be
overwhelming.
__
__ 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.
__
__
Critics of inequaity who consider themselves more realistic than the
recognition school, argue for a different approach to the utopis of
differential human valuing.
__
__ 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.
__
__ A key difference about the post=scarcity society is that when you're
broke you can still normally find food, basic philosophy.
__
__ Not a day goes by th
.
__
__ And narcissism is what makes us say, my story is worth writing down.
__
__ 305.
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__ The family firm is still intact.
__
__ Second, I see academic writing in the broader context of the
neo-liberal market that we are all required to engage with.
__
__ __
To speak semiotically, the signifier "genocide" in Barta's formulation,
refers not to the abstract realm of the denotative - the deliberate
killing of a large number of individuals of a particular race,
ethnicity or national grouping - but to the more connotative
particularity of the Holocaust itself.
__ As if anticipating Thorpe and Evans' iteration of the relation of
contiguity that holds the Holocaust and the Tasmanian genocide
together, he paraphrases a contention made by Tony Barta in an article
originally published in 1985:
The terrible and well-known story of the Holocaust makes it difficult
to discuss the general question of genocide, which for most people
means only one thing: the murder of six million Jews.
__ In an historiographical field dominated by a turning point of such
basic ontological import, the impact of the discovery of a genocidal
pattern in the actions and orientations of the Colonial Office, the
colonial administrations of David Collins, Thomas Davey, William Sorell
and George Arthur and the citizenry more generally, is made to seem
less explosive than it otherwise might.
__ However, after years of misinformation and misguided ignorance, a
racial politics with real energy and determination began to make its
presence felt.
__ The idea of "genocide in general" has been passed over, exchanged
without notice, substituted for an instance of "actually existing
genocide" which doubles over itself to reflexively saturate the
semantic field of its signifier.
__ From James Bonwick's publication of 1870, The Last of the Tasmanians
to Clive Turnbull's The Black War in 1948 to Tom Haydon's documentary
The Last Tasmanian in 1978, the absolute obliteration of the indigenous
owners of Tasmania was affirmed as historical fact.
__ " What is happening here is akin to the phenomenon that Dipesh
Chakrabarty describes in Provincializing Europe, whereby a "first in
Europe, then elsewhere" structure of global historical time is
reproduced in non-European locations so that local versions of this
same narrative replace "Europe" with some locally constructed center.
__ In linguistic terms, this was a perfect example of a performative
speech act, the process of voicing making incontestable the content of
the claim being voiced.
__ This group were responsible for, and bore witness to, the remarkable
situation whereby a supposedly extinct peoples actually began arguing
for their own existence.
__ Discussing genocide without invoking images and cultural memories
that cluster around the representational traditions of the Shoah will
be well-nigh impossible.
__ The jurisdiction of Thorpe and Evans' piece is the whole of
Australia, but the first case study they turn to is the
settler-colonisation of Tasmania.
__ While Reynolds is able to find copious "genocidal" articulations
that take Tasmania as their object, he also notes the reluctance of
Australians to examine the presence of genocidal relations in their own
country's past.
__ Reynolds also turns his attention to the question of the Shoah.
__ If genocide did occur in Australia, Reynolds suggests, the first
place to which we would turn in pursuit of its traces would be
Tasmania.
__ Equally, Thorpe and Evans's work shows that to discuss genocide in
Australian history is always to refer back, even if allusively or by
association, to the colonisation of Tasmania and the depredations
wrought on its indigenous inhabitants by the disjointed assemblage of
the military, the judiciary, the legislature and private citizenry.
__ Conceived in direct response to the empirical realities of the
German occupation policies directed at Slavs, Jews and Gypsies in
Axis-controlled Europe, Lemkin's definition, which was subsequently
taken as a primary source by the United Nations Convention on the
issue, conceives of genocide as a "peculiarly modern phenomenon", or,
more precisely, "an old practice in its modern development.
__ Reynolds actually hedges his bets when it comes to making a clear
determination as to whether or not a genocide was perpetrated in
19th-century Tasmania, but for our purposes here, it is adequate to
show that he acknowledges the seductive power that such an induction
has exercised over others.
__ " Dealing as they are with an historically antecedent and
qualitatively distinct set of events, Evans and Thorpe propose that a
narrow definition of genocide which emphasises its specifically modern
character might not have room for the Australian frontier scenario.
__ Any post-Holocaust historical analysis that seeks to delineate the
workings of a genocidal logic in its particular archive will
necessarily do so through an intertextual matrix thoroughly
overdetermined by the Holocaust itself.
__ The first major attempt to define and codify genocide was made in
1944 by the Polish-Jewish intellectual Raphael Lemkin.
__ The exception to this rule is the historiography of Tasmania, and
Reynolds lists three Australian historians, Robson, Butlin and Hughes,
who have all couched their accounts of the decimation and displacement
of the Palawa people in the language of extirpation.
__ Like Thorpe and Evans, he points out that a more particularised
definition of genocide - colonial genocide - has been preferred in the
Australian case.
__ Conceptually, what the deployment of the term does is invest the
incidents it describes with a heightened degree of horror.
__ And there was a story behind it all.
__ Gibson, J.
__ The "Tasmanian Aboriginal situation", they argue, "is often regarded
as Australia's singular genocidal example.
__ To their credit though, and in keeping with the sweep of their
piece, Thorpe and Evans quickly shift their energies away from this
tussle with Windschuttle and his Quadrant allies, to a confrontation of
the motivations that drive the widespread suspicion of "black armband"
history that circulates through the cultural centres of this country:
It is intensely discomforting to conceive of an Australian social order
where the mass murder of certain people, identifiable by their
ethnicity, was a way of life, executed by a minority of perpetrators,
tolerated by the settler majority, and winked at by a state which, in
other settings, upheld the precepts of British culture, law and
justice.
__ As such, they coin a new portmanteau term that they hope will more
adequately address the specificity of their object of study:
indigenocide:
Indigenocide is a means of analysing those circumstances where one, or
more peoples, usually immigrants, deliberately set out to supplant a
group or groups of other people whom as far as we know, represent the
indigenous or Aboriginal peoples of the country that the immigrants
usurp.
__ The myth of complete extinction was the touchstone for the
development of a formidable Aboriginal rights movement that began to
emerge in the 1970s.
__ There is a connective tissue that binds in contingent and
provisional fashion the Tasmanian genocide, the Australian genocides,
indigenocide, the Holocaust and all the other historical logics that we
approach through this terminology.
__ Whether these be snatches of Primo Levi's haunting prose-poem If
This is a Man?, the macabre combination of muscle memory and moral
exhaustion borne of enduring Claude Lanzmann's Shoah, or the anamnesis
of anonymous newsreel footage, the memory traces of the Holocaust will
attach themselves to the particular genocide being read and appear
co-extensively on the same cognitive surface or plane of immanence.
__ But even so, a wave of ripples - legal, political, ethical, semantic
- radiate out across the textual surface of the Aboriginal Studies
programme in the wake of the uncovering of this secret truth.
__ The two "events" are brought together by virtue of the equivalent
position they occupy within overlapping but relatively autonomous
symbolic orders.
__ Historically, debates about Aboriginality in Tasmania have taken the
form of a constellation circulating around a single radial point: the
question of extinction.
__ It also cast a long shadow over the horizon of Aboriginal Studies in
Tasmania.
__ What happens next is that genocide comes to signify in a dual way.
__ Suddenly, an irreducibly specific historical
.
__ On the one hand it retains its concrete linkage to the Jewish
Holocaust, making that moral disaster a kind of one-member set, and on
the other, it becomes a more generic rubric that can be attached to any
configuration of empirical events that fits its formal criteria.
__ In his monograph, An Indelible Stain: The Question of Genocide in
Australia's History, Reynolds includes a chapter entitled "Tasmania: a
Clear Case of Genocide?" that engages with the growing body of
international scholarship and journalism interested in trawling through
the phantasmagoria of colonial bloodshed in Tasmania.
__ Rather, they propose that indigenocide might be deployed after the
fashion of a Derridean supplément, to both augment and replace the
exegetical utility of its suffix-root.
__
Reynolds' investigation of the question of genocide in Australian
history overlaps with the reconnoitre of Thorpe and Evans.
__
__
__ And every profession is open to the women of your generation, said
Miss Kilman.
__ Not only do they manage to stymie the argument from statistics, they
also identify a poor use of primary sources, a highly selective
consultation of recently published academic histories on the subject
and a tendency to occlude relevant empirical events.
__ __
__ This capacity to make things new and to affect the world.
__
__ Notice here the emphasis on order and consider the often caricatured
line of anti-cosmopolitan resistance - Pauline Hanson's 'Migrants just
don't blend in' - that bewails the flux and diversity, the disorder, in
other words, that seems to be part and parcel of the cosmopolitan
configuration.
__
__ 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.
__
__ It certainly has a currency and a legitimating providence.
__
__ 5- source Wikipedia
Measuring income inequality has long been of interest in applied social
and economic
research in Australia.
__
__
And we hate just as vehemently, just as clinically.
__
__ Our focus is magnified around the room.
__ For the imperial historicist time that pushes this set of logics
along, places and peoples that resist the transference can only be
backward provinces, sites of a vain resistance to an unstoppable force
that will always have its way in the final wash-up.
__
__ Older men can admire the younger men here without risking a
concomitant reduction in their own status by virtue of the fact that
they couldn't possibly take to the field and compete with the younger
men.
__
__ H.
__
__ Anyway, I still like the system thinking of people like Arrighi,
Habermas, Lacan and so on, but I will never try to put together an
integrated theory myself.
__
__ Superiority here has something to do with taste, with education,
with intellectual and manual capabilities.
__
__ The rich have always been with us and so have the poor.
__
__ Equally, though he is also on the record characterising the peculiar
euphoria that he and other presumably alos, felt during the salad days
of the Bonaventure hotel, ragtime and Ishmael Reed.
__
__ The mobilities 'turn' developed by writers such as Urry (2000) have
encouraged researchers to focus on transformation of flows in the
globalised technology (Thrift 2007).
__
__ So another question- what does friendship mean for you?
Well like Derrida says quoting Aristotle.
__
__ Social scientists have been remarkably reticent about considering
the implicitly historical component of their work (though see Abrams,
(1982) for an example).
__
__ This strikes me as the most meaningful kind of cosmopolitanism;
chosen cosmopolitanism, hard-won cosmopolitanism, sacrificial
cosmopolitanism.
__
__ And second, while smaller settlements may not offer a dizzying array
of cuisines, museums or red-light districts, they do still have their
own virtues, some of which actually derive from the very same
anti-cosmopolitan characteristics that are derided by the flashy,
accelerated folk from the city:
In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will
frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign
parts.
__
__
The leap through time that would denaturalise late capitalist
individualism and enable an uninhibited communion with the historical
other has a synchronic equivalent: the act of recognising a different
kind of other concurrently, in our own time, in our own practice of
everyday life, as a human being with as rich an inner life as we
possess ourselves.
__
__
Academic work is rewarding but it is the friendships and love from
friends and family that are more important to me.
__
__ I miss it in a way, but Hobart is my home town.
__
__ And, anyway, many scholars now contend that the venerable tradition
of academic autonomy has been monstered to such an extent by
administrative burdens, competitive grant rounds and output
measurement, that it barely exists anymore in anything like the shape
it has traditionally taken.
__
__ In our view, it is somewhat surprising how little of Marcel Proust
work has informed investigations of both material culture and the home.
__
__ Many people consign all politicians to the ashcan of history and
offer their viewing rights to sportspeople and entertainers.
__
__ This irritability is mirrored by the largely unresolved debate
within philosophy about the role of government in the provision of
philosophy in the most general terms.
__
__ His friends seem to see the objective proof of this claim so long as
it is clear.
__
__ This is all well and good.
__
__ But I probably overstate the interest of others in me - your
greatest assistance to me in this area is your conviction that other
people do not think of us very often.
__
__
In our paper we seek to incrementally extend the scope of philosophy
scholarship from the margins described above by using an example of
literary fiction to support our argument that homes, homeliness and
philosophy work in an esoteric as well as an exoteric mode.
__
__ The actual event went extremely well which also had a lot to do with
your efforts.
__
__ Nothing, if not the postulate that the true nature of man is to be a
productive-economic animal, a totally arbitrary postulate and one which
implies, if it were true, that socialism is forever impossible.
__
__ One might be a very good farmer-and that, strangely enough though
Miss Kilman had her share in it, was almost entirely due to Somerset
Mind.
__
From Freud, General Psychological Theory, Chapter XIII, 1925.
__
__ (2006), The meaning of dwellings: an ecological perspective,
Philosophy, Theory and Society, 23, pp.
__
__ Even in Broadway and Chestnut streets, Mediterranean mariners will
sometimes jostle the affrighted ladies.
__
__
Introduction
Although its principle object seems prosaic enough, scholarship of the
home has never been a simple matter of matching an unproblematic
explanans with a singular or unilateral explanandum.
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__ Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, pp.
__
__ This choosing is only voluntaristic in the weakest sense.
__
__ Christian Lenhart and Shierry Weber Nicholson.
__
__ As such objects are affective agents that require analysis.
__
__ The books that build my tower have allowed me to read them through
instead of caving into my inductive frenzies, hunting down referenes
that I know exist, ony reading the fist few pages of a book, knowinf
that something suitable is waiting there to be found.
__
__ Soil a has different fertility in each of the above three tables;
the sequence of proportionally increasing fertilities begins only with
soil A The sequence of rising rents also behaves similarly.
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"About a year
I "It is even conceivable that a new invention may be made some day
whose adoption would seem unquestionably beneficial but which could
only be used if the many or all people were made to avail themselves of
it at the same time" - NBN - Hayek p.
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__
At the end of a society's historical enterprise to no longer recognize
that it has any but a utilitarian function, and given the individual's
anxiety faced with the concentration-camp form of the social link whose
appearance seems to crown this effort, existentialism can be judged on
the basis of the justifications it provides for the subjective impasses
that do, indeed, result therefrom: a freedom that is never so
authentically affirmed as when it is within the walls of a prison; a
demand for commitment that expresses the inability of pure
consciousness to overcome any situation; a voyeuristic-sadistic
idealization of sexual relationships; a personality that achieves
realization only in suicide; a consciousness of the other that can only
be satisfied by Hegelian murder.
__
__ An instructional novel is needed right now because so many of us
have lost our way.
__
__ G Bissinger, Friday Night Lights, p.
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__ We construct universes of moral obligation and act, for the most
part, from the known, navigable reaches of those universes.
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__ If it's a close call they'll argue all the way through to the end of
lunch-time and then slump off back to class annoyed with each other for
wasting their break in talk when they could have out trying to best
each other in the more basic language of sport.
__
__ One of the reasons why the name Arthur was chosen, it is said, was
that his mother favoured it because it was spelled the same in German,
French and English.
__
__ 5 per cent of its span - that is to say, for all but the last five
centuries - the known or presumed history of humanity has unfolded on
the basis of what appears to us as stagnation and which was lived by
people at the time as a self-evident stability of technique.
__
__ What do you do when your wife thinks you're crazy?
What did Kant say? Treat humanity, whether in your own person or that
of another, always as an end and never as a means only.
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__ That, too, was money.
__
__ Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
__
__ I am most happy when sharing moments with people and whilst I get
pleasure from writing, it is friendships and intimacy I seek most of
all.
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__ It is the calling of something out of the nothing.
__
__ This arch- critical tone is always recuperating frankfurt school
indignation and should be treated warily.
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__ We have strong feelings about home because this is one of the ways
we construct a sense of identity.
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__ The less we are aware of them, the more powerfully they can
determine our expectations, by setting the scene and ensuring
appropriate behaviour… They determine what takes place to the extent
that we are unconscious of their capacity to do so' Miller (2010:50).
__
__ Australia is the land of the fair go.
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The teletopia and the wall of flame.
__
__ Three specific conceptual problems in The Psychic Life of Power
contribute to her portrayal of subjectivity as heavily burdened with
negativity.
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__
Here's an observation that is often posited to prove that the subject
of the statement is weird or deviant and maybe not to be trusted: The
DVD of Deleuze interviews called L'Abécédaire, in the "C comme Culture"
section I suddenly noticed a disgusting detail: Deleuze's fingernails
are uncommonly long, wide, and misshapen - as if on a Mandarin manqué.
__
__
Frosh (2012) has argued that the proliferation of media and
technologies has established what he terms a mode of inattentiveness.
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__ There is no evidence that he read Freud but there are clear overlaps
between the two (see Bowie 1988, 1999 for a discussion).
__
__ libertyfund.
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Each to his own we say, or beauty is in the eye of the beholder or even
in a slightly rougher (feline) tongue, 'whatever floats your boat'.
__
__ But I do hold an honorary adjunct position at the university of the
aurora of the southern republic built down the hill from my ranch and I
captain it from DPM as if it were nothing more than a roband ship of
fools.
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__ Hobart is one of the most recently.
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__ Third, she associates dependence with subordination and thus
underestimates the productive, liberating dimensions of
intersubjectivity.
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Monkeys Pay Per View:
In primate societies, kinship, dominance, and reproductive status
regulate social interactions and should therefore systematically
influence the value of social information, but this has never been
demonstrated.
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__ The rich have always been with us and so have the poor.
__
__ But before I answer your question let me digress and attend to the
time I came to visit you in hospital.
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__ In this sense, the new world order cannot be old.
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__ This was substantially higher than Denmark, which had the lowest
inequality of
0.
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__ Friendships for me are sugar and dirt.
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__ In any case, many old men claim instead to have known athletes whose
prowess far exceeded the new generation and so even claim to have been
endowed with such mysterious powers in their own right.
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__ But experience suggests that every writer seeking academic
publication operates under the sign of a collective noun and at the
edges or the centre of that structure.
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__ This was substantially higher than Denmark, which had the lowest
inequality of
0.
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__ most important of all he regarded this state of affairs as normal.
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As Jacobs and Gabriel write (208, 530):
At issue has been the treatment of objects within the social sciences
as simply backdrops to social action .
__ We take care to identify our loved ones, families and neighbours,
singling them out.
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__ , 'The many faces of cosmo-polis: border thinking and critical
cosmopolitanism' in C.
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__ " But even now, I run hot and cold with people, sometimes it clicks
and the relationships are sweet and easy.
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__ Shelton (eds) Oxford: Oxford University Press: 40-66.
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__ M forster tells us nly to connect.
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__ In the passage below, Proust makes clear how objects provides a mode
of salvation for Monsieur Swann.
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Mignolo, W.
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__ It is, one might say, the degree zero of free will as the right but
not the obligation or even the capacity necessarily to deliberate
rationally.
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I favour the word write over the word think to honour Fredric Jameson
who identified the former with the work of theory and the latter with
the work of philosophy.
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__ No doubt it's the writerly guilt, a guilt shared by every writer no
matter how commercially or artistically successful he or she is.
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__ 48 (OECD 2006).
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Involuntary memory and time
What then? Here is where the chalet is! Freud winced - neurotics and
memory.
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__ But what we have done over that time is bounce around a broad
collection of ideas and approaches and done our best to publish
consistently in good places.
__
It would be rash to make the claim that Tasmania is somehow insulated
from the purposive rationalities of science and economics, or indeed to
claim that the value spheres of art and religion are somehow more
entrenched here than in other "minor" places.
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We are controlled by hierarchies.
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__ Nowadays everything has changed.
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__ p.
__ __ I would like to contend here that the constitutive outside to the
harbour side suburb is the countryside and the township and even the
small city that has made some progress.
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Notes
I was told once by a friend of mine who was something of a writer, well
he said, we all have our own stories to tell.
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__ I looked in some depth, for instance, at the idea of the harbour
side suburb versus the township.
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__ What is our aim? Does the West have a future? How can all this debt
ever be paid off and what will the earth look like when it is?
We were terrified of dying, suffering for a cause that disgusted us.
__
__ And to say the truth, either our reason mocks us, or it ought to
have no other aim but our contentment only, nor to endeavor anything
but, in sum, to make us live well, and, as the Holy Scripture says, at
our ease.
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Beings discriminate.
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__ The offer of recognised equality and co-humanity really only
embodies a weak generosity, it seems to me, in so far, as nothing is
actually given up when the offer of recognition is made.
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Standin' on the waters castin' your bread While the eyes of the idol
with the iron head are glowin' Distant ships sailin' into the mist You
were born with a snake in both of your fists While a hurrica
The idea of truth can get from the concept of normative validity only
the impersonality - supratemporally - of an idealized agreement, of an
intersubjectivity related to an ideal communication community.
__
__ As Barsani (1966: 148) writes, "Marcel's habit of defining the
possession or value of the present in terms of a transcendence of
present sensory experience.
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__ Anyway, that's not how it turned out, so here I am, lost here at
home, unsure of important patterns and sequences in the large
prestigious language systems that operate around the world.
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__
The respectability of philosophy and the right of its scholars to work
imaginatively, philosophically and inter-disciplinarily has been hard
won.
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__ The average American is worth about 50 grand.
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Hicks, G.
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__ In addition to the more or less, overt, demonstrable and sensible
dimensions of philosophy and philosophy effects, we claim that the home
and the objects within the home also have a relational impact of which
we are largely unaware-a mechanics that hints at certain forces that
may be operating unconsciously or even hauntologically
(Derrida/poltergeist):
And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
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__ The privilege that I nominate here is neither economic nor filial
nor civil.
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__ Philosophy is endowed with practical vitality and the potential to
do work.
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__ And it is also not just mine.
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__ Something's happened.
__ __
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__ It maps these borders onto a striated globe, hanging the islands
between latitudes forty three and forty four degrees south, cutting
them adrift off the bottom right hand corner of the oldest continent on
Earth.
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__ To its eastern side it plots the Tasman Sea and then New Zealand,
and to its south, a series of ever more weather-beaten islets dwindling
down toward Antarctica.
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__ and northern hunger,
crescent, tiled stretch and soul and spoon of whack.
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__ borrowed amp.
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whisper great nation.
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__ After a series of genocidal skirmishes with these new "Tasmanians",
the putative "remnants" of the indigenous tribes were rounded up and
sent in exile to outlying Flinders Island.
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__ i hooked it up.
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__ with neptune there he will not fear my inner ray.
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__ With their jumbled pastiche of half-drawn maps, corroded oral
testimony and displaced traces of arcadian imaginings, the isolario
were sites of an interminable prevarication.
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__ she seemed overly determined to tell me what a lovely girl she is.
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__ i'd lie on my bed in that tiny room i had watching basketball games
and flexing my biceps.
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Hobart
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now in winter battened down.
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__ Its abrupt mountain ranges, snaking tree-lined rivers and
crenellated, highland plains stretch from the South Coast to the
lacustrine Central Highlands and over to the interior of the North-West
Coast.
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messages never sent, pyrrhic poems
never composed.
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the pros will laugh to make a buck.
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i'm grateful for thoughts like these.
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__ i thought to myself, serves him right for working in the third
world.
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__ , Histories of Old Ages: Essays in Honour of Rhys Jones (Canberra:
Pandanus Books, 2001), pp.
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__ , French Cultural Studies: An Introduction (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1995); David Forgacs and Robert Lumley, eds.
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now i stand beside the jds on high street road lane strip with my amex
black as onyx rhino horn.
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__ my brother calls me through the void.
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__ , horse map.
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__ Places consist of these rude physical attributes; conditions,
natural and cultural, upon which the details we call character slowly
settle and form.
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__ With visions of Java la Grande and the Great South Land growing
otiose, European governments prevaricated over the value of Tasman's
"discovery" and his visitation was followed by only sporadic
reconnaissance.
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__ around the bar the killer's lips.
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__ i mean they're acceptable from most points of view.
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__ just a little cub admiring the soft brown owl.
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69 plato is my transference.
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__ u turn for work as habit, forming foam from gel, chest beaten habit
forum? the policy officer with the triton grip.
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__ hopeless poet.
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what face is that which fills my mind?
the clockface, counting years apart.
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__ iron burl and
woven rinse you plastered over them while i was writing.
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but our lives are good aren't they.
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fragment speech.
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__ The double sound of genocide, the counterpoint to modernity and its
inverted double in so far as it embodies despair to modernity's hope,
is allowed to echo through this book precisely to make this point
clear.
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Hobart Again
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the south hobart clay settled in the drying earth.
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nobody young will swim with rodya, hans or joseph knecht
nobody young will sail with
ishmael.
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__ The arch-empiricist, John Locke, couldn't have envisaged the advent
of Alphonso Lingis's micro-chip-driven global positioning technology
when he wrote that man can have no knowledge except by intuition,
reason and "sensation, perceiving the existence of particular things",
but one can imagine the scepticism with which he might have greeted the
information obtained by these strange devices.
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i don't like how i look but i remember when i was growing up and
watching my muscles form.
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__ pared down by the elements.
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__ she got married you know.
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__ i thought her teacher didn't like her very much.
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__ the opposite of algebra because the symbols
are pre-packed, meaningful.
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__ but poor old scottsdale.
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unwanted would get in the way of our happiness.
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__ even with the horses and the traffic news.
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in a tilt-up complex
at the technopark, in a local area network
or in a school like mine
failing most days.
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__ back here, i get groceries delivered and make all these different
veins.
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the hole you cut to let the light, grey waves slosh at grout and
lightning.
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i looked inside.
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lear's unwrote son.
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__ the holiday was fading away and we were back where we started.
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__ Van Diemen's Land became Tasmania and the Aborigines became a
symptom tied like a Gordian knot in the tangled thread of time.
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__ what did they say at the casino and at don camillo.
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our skulls are bright
around the necks
of rugged men
in jungle books.
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__ everythings going along as it should.
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coil.
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__ Inevitably, however, the reserves of tin, copper and gold petered
out and the search resumed for a more reliable panacea for the chronic
economic under-achievement that had marred Tasmania from its European
beginnings.
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__ Recent Cultural Studies anthologies that propose a trans-national
locatedness and application include Jeffrey Belnap and Raul Fernandez,
eds.
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__ zygote - bland but loves his kip
The Submarine in Morecombe Bay
66
look, called margaret, i've found a metal thing out here, half buried
in the mud.
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i wondered how long this mood would last.
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cabinet minutes, community forum briefs, birthday cake.
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__ for good, that is unless like this, we bring it on ourselves, our
own worst enemies, fighting for the ground we already control.
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__ it shows your rank.
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__ you sense her loneliness out of place there in the pine forest with
that well drilled right through the kitchen floor.
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__ they represent the world or make it in their image? In either case,
their claim to mimesis was deeply compromised by the enduring
enchantment of what Tom Conley calls a mytho-poetic "relation to the
unknown".
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__ the body shows your stress.
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__ Inundation swept evolutionary becomings into unmapped channels and a
new civilisation was born.
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__ Helen Garner, Monkeygrip (Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1977).
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__ i shift units, patients.
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it glowed with heat and static form
the pigs were quiet in the swill.
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__ At various points in the development of this book, I felt that I was
producing a work of cultural history, of historiography, of biography
of place, of psychoanalytically informed social theory, of hybrid
literary studies and finally of archival studies.
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the culmination of this struggle is soon to take place.
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__ Moving south down the East Coast, the country becomes stragglier,
poorer and drier again.
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__ twisting
twirled and bent and blushed.
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,squat like a burkenau turd.
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__ we all know about feeling proud in spite of the evidence, just
carrying on.
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__ the dia-logic distributes social power between individual actors in
day to day wrangling along streets in towns and cities.
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__ See Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Kafka: Toward a Minor
Literature, translated by Dana Polan (Minneapolis: Minnesota University
Press, 1986).
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let a = a.
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__ now i have that growth.
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so you said, "i think these measures are promising and we have to do
something, so let's not quibble on bits and bobs as if they
disqualified reform.
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__ his lady friend i never think about her anyways.
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stuck in new york.
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who has time in rushing churn but
rodeo harlequins, gored then bored.
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__ the kitchen table isn't safe its ridges and moraines, its scree and
pointing towers, and the skin of its face, the cheek of a tear, the
pompous dark grandeur.
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__ it was surely too full now to be drained by outward flows.
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__ What would a subjective typology of the Tasmanian landscape look
like? In comparison with much of the Australian mainland to the north,
its ecology is densely multiplicitous.
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__ 30 September, 2003
.
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__ In 1803, Lieutenant John Bowen's party arrived at Risdon Cove and,
amid scenes of deprivation and desperation, promptly established a
precedent for the maltreatment of the indigenous culture they
encountered.
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__ all afflicted by the storm of weather now and finance squalls.
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__ i felt l__ fingers and showed my tender palms to his wife.
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__ As frost became thaw and the spine of the isthmus was broken, the
tracks of the palaeolithic people who had made this territory their own
were lost for eternity.
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__ See for instance Robert Manne, ed.
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__ the yellowing piles of dust and chips.
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anemos
the dome pops open old front pages, shredded rhythm.
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we seldom laugh because we're cold.
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__ , History Wars (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2003).
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petit homme and lissom homme and
bird cracks
in blackness where you're from
up north.
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__ It traverses the changing physical terrains too, and in omitting so
much as it does so, suggests that any attempt to account fully for
Tasmanianness through such a survey will necessarily fail.
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__ the culture now seems anti-growth or else it all gets spent on wine
and restaurants and electronic gadgets.
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i wish to go back down.
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Whatever the future might hold, however, we can be sure that it will
unfold in conversation with the traditions, stories and logics of
cultural identification that have dominated the past.
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__ the vestry arch.
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__ it sounds like k___ is miserable.
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__ Looking beyond the soft democratic plea of inclusion that Richard
Rorty calls "cultural recognition", what kinds of rationale can we
identify for developing strategies for cultural analysis that draw
their inspiration from the practices and symbolic economies of located
collectivities whose specificity operates below the level of the
nation-state? Richard Rorty, "Is Cultural Recognition a Useful Concept
for Leftist Politics?," Critical Horizons 1.
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just another craft at sea, another plank to walk.
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__ nothing takes but local facts.
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__ i cleared him out and published well in a1 journals
stateside_blended fresh for interlaken dowry gaffe.
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__ the one we bought at myer in launceston.
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__ From the narrow littoral that intercedes between it and the sea,
white sands and clear green waters glimmer, but the interior sweats and
strangles.
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__ i lurched toward the trench far gone in sweat and
guns and booted terns
down sango street.
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__ that desert will though monger song eased over tube the flat on
stalks for water, rat with crank by waves in space in scene the heard
horizon.
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__ Uncertain as to whether anyone else really cares that much at all,
We conduct our own invigilation of the possibilities offered by that
vague quintessence called Tasmanianness.
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Noted free-market commentator Alan Wood added his voice to the chorus
calling for Tasmanians to agree to a sale of their
electricity-generating assets when he wrote in The Australian:
.
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__ i'll buy a flat round dish for
figs and meet him at the crooked tree.
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__ it was quite appealing, quite stylish really.
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and this,
these heavy conflicts
the madness of his brother's wife and the causal role played by the
analyst in the germination of that madness.
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a manikin god of brine and beach.
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__ of course you do, it was only last year.
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__ when were they built? business must have been booming or labour
could have been cheap.
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__ This move proved disastrous as disease, distress and depression
wrought havoc.
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__ We Tasmanians are obsessed with our own history, our own
environment, and, to cut to the chase, ourselves as well.
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__ we really haven't failed at anything to conspicuously.
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i imagined the wood turned to gas and filling up the sky.
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__ (Alphonso Lingis, 1994)
The packaging and repackaging of the islands of the world in the genre
called isolario invoked a set of problems that has never really left
academia alone.
__ the
nongov and the comptroller, hard
from the sector_slapped down
by battle guns.
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the two brothers will lock
horns in a particularised instantiation
of the timeless and universal struggle for recognition and dominance
and revenge and the regent burnished spade.
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__ While we would like, also, to ascend to an Archimedean singularity
outside space and time, freezing Tasmania from the imaginary vantage
point that Nietzsche calls "subspecie aeterni", we must console
ourselves instead with fragments and metonyms, substitutes for this
impossible totality.
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__ now it's turned around.
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__ i hoped forever and sensed no darkness bearing in.
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__ the woman at the motel told me that the farmers were struggling.
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__ 50-2; Jim Allen, "The Last Tasmanian: A Personal View," in Atholl
Anderson, Ian Lilley and Sue O'Conner, eds.
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__ Across towards the north-eastern tip, the terrain becomes drier and
flatter, but inland again, rich, wet forests and dairy farms dotted
with tiny settlements form the material/demographic composition of the
island.
__ This eliminates what Freud called the exaggeration of minor
differences.
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__ It is only from this combination that we get the concept of a
criticisable validity claim.
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__ Which means we have to be different poets now in more than just the
heteronymic style of Pessoa.
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__
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Phoenix,
London, 2003.
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__ Memory and affect are given only in and through the materiality of
things; the materiality of things is given only in and through memory
and affect - things (and the larger material/environmental structures
in which they are located) are thus the proper focus for the
externalisation of self and meaning.
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If the Bacon government's intention in keeping the Hydro was to
re-enchant the state through recourse to public emotion and
collectivity-forming mythological narratives, the question remained as
to how it was to get around William Connolly's diagnosis of the
implausibility of the Hegelian notion of the state in a modern world
disenchanted by empiricism.
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__ First, a conversation like this can seem pretentious or
self-indulgent - surely only the most illustrious scholars can make
this form of discussion yield valuable, original truths or
interpretations.
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__ because my links to Jameson are faint and unreal.
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__ Just recently actually I've started to feel like I have more power
in my friendships, that I'm not so obligated to visit people and so on.
__
__ Do you think these ideas about time are interesting? Do you think we
live outside time now that everything is so spatial - again an idea
that is associated with postmodernism?
About a year before Auden left England he wrote a ballad, "As I walked
out one evening," in which Time is a destroyer as undiscriminating and
implacable as death.
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__ au/content/InternetWebsite/Hobart/Living_in_Hobart.
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__ I socialise more with family than with friends and a lot of my older
friends - friends I've known since I was a kid - seem like family more
or less.
__
__ Either that or they just aren't impressed by the particular skill
that the younger man possesses.
__ Not content with making a claim for the presence of the "Spirit of
the state" in a mandarin class of public élites, the ships themselves
were christened "The Spirits of Tasmania I, II and III".
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__ 185-201.
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__ Normative statemenets can be annulled by the presentation of facts
that show that the desired state of affairs already exists, existed in
the past, cannot exist and so on.
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What we, might ask, is the real difference between the image and the
word? Why is the former so popular nowadays? What is the
bio-social-hedonic structure of the eye nerve and what is the vector of
its stimulation?
What can the neo-platonists tell us about the cloverleaf flyovers that
Eisenhower built down there in Tuscaloosa?
Compressed modernity or second modernity?
But truth doesn't crash or break like day.
__
__ (1988) Freud, Proust and Lacan, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
__
__ On a study of Proust, Bersani (1966: 214) writes it is through the
life of our senses that are constantly aware of the external world, the
paradoxical feature of an involuntary memory is that it is a sensation
that dematerialises the world'.
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__
Australians live in a province or a colony or even a country that
valorises and denies its youth.
__
__ The other big thing for me in this space is extended family.
__
__ 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.
__
__ Schopenhauer got no publicity while film-makers seemed to get in
trouble with their supervisors, and I'm thinking here of Errol Morris
in particular who once told Thomas Kuhn that he had a god complex (Kuhn
proceeded to throw an ash tray at the presumptuous young graduate
student).
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__
Philosophy scholarship
.
__ Wood's frustration at Tasmania's unwillingness to rid itself of the
"millstone" of public electricity assets is the frustration of a man
who sees the world in the kind of historicist terms that Chakrabarty so
skillfully pulls apart.
__
__ Material Culture and Mass Consumption.
__
__ And this is ingeminated ten times over with Tarkovsky and Abel Gance
and Peter Greenaway.
__
__ The mirror can inspire cosmetic change but it is not change that I
seek.
__
__ 2000, da capo press
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others -
George orwell , Animal Farm.
__
__ Thus the emphasis is less on the communicative function and more on
the genetically earlier manipulative function of words, which may be
used to frighten or to sooth, to distance or to merge, to control or to
be controlled.
__
__ Jacques Lacan, "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I function,"
Ecrits, trans.
__
__ Here, invariably, wealthy customers partake of a smorgasbord of
ethnic foods, clothes, music and so on, comparing and contrasting the
flavours of the world on shopping expeditions to air-conditioned malls
or tours of holiday towns in the sunnier corners of the globe.
__
__ None of these ideology effects take the home as a thing for itself,
as a co-existing materiality that is not just a locus of infinity
fungibility or isomorphism played out within human psycho-dramas and
speculative, inflationary economics.
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__ Rent is dead money.
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__ 1-22.
__
__ If it was ever about spears versus rifle , the conversation wold
have run out of ammunition long ago.
__
__ Rovisco, 'Making sense of cosmopolitanism' in M.
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__
Politicians receive special treatment even if only by the guards at
Parliament Mind.
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__ Nobody seems to speak in even a vaguely academic way outside the
university and within the faculty where I am an associate, well to be
honest I am yet to find out.
__
__ Sociological work that has drawn from Proust has focussed on the
insights that his novel has in relation to social class.
__
__ Wittgenstein's investigations are ludic in this sense.
__
__ 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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__ It looked so splendid, so serious, that great grey building.
__
__ that communicatively acting persons reach agreements concerning
their normative validity claims through rational argument and "only
those norms can claim to be valid that meet (or could meet ) with the
approval of all affected in their capacity as participants in a
practical discourse.
__
__ (Proust Date)
Third, the meanings of objects require a human interaction that
effectively endows objects but the effects of objects on the human
world is not conditional on this endowment of meaning.
__
__ So for Proust, our imagination and desires infuse our memories and
shapes how we make sense of the world.
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__ Trans.
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__
I'm excited about this, both personally and in terms of the kind of
document that it might engender.
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__
But it no longer seems sufficiently respectful to sneak facile,
translation based references to continental philosophy into an essay.
__
__ As a first, small step to remedying this situation, we begin our
paper with a number of observations about research on the home and the
way that sociology and anthropology have viewed the significance of
heimlich and unheimlich objects.
__
__ Abjuring money, he ought to have abjured women to.
__
__ I went to school, learnt to write, talked about books and ideas with
my parents and then with friends in my late teens.
__
__
Five years on, data on suicide rates are unreliable and there is no
information on whether people with a mental illness are even alive or
dead three or six months after receiving care.
__
__ Relations require forms of boundedness, and this is reflected in the
character of both objects and place, but there is a tendency to reject
the idea of boundedness (See for example Urry and Thrift in much
contemporary theory, but the rejection of boundedness is also the
obliteration, seldom recognised, of both objects and place.
__
__ It can mean simply looking at or talking to a stranger in the same
way one would interact with any other citizen.
__
__ 51, The Road to Serfdom, university od Chicago press, Chicago 37,
1944, 18th impression, 1965.
__
__ I don't want to write for myself, so I say I'll be instructional.
__
__ (2004) Incognito ergo sum: language, memory and the subject' Theory,
Culture and Society (2004) 67-89.
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__ Tilley (ed) Handbook of Material Culture, London: Sage.
__
__ We place objects strategically and talk about them as instruments
that are used to acquire social status in the wide society.
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__
Miller, D.
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__ How hard it is to block literature from theory and theory from
apolitical (analytic) philosophy, as if this last were merely a
bloodless critique of taste and imagination on the grounds that taste
and sensibility have very little to do with the truth of things.
__
__ e.
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__ emotional exploration has been exhausted with the legitimation
crisis of therapeutic discourse and method.
__
__ So we get fatter and fatter finding it ever harder to exercise our
free will in the name of discipline while our athletes innocently
describe their six hour daily raining sessions.
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__
This story is meant to be neither edifiying or informative.
__
__ How easy it used to be to feel as if the world was being controlled
from some kind of nerve centre or network hub.
__
__ The truly open society when taken to its logical conclusion might
also be the indeterminate, random, anomic, entropic dystopia glimpsed
in films like A Clockwork Orange, Soylent Green, Batman and Children of
Men? Can the cosmopolitan centre really hold, in other words, or, as
Yeats asked of another place at another time, will it ascend to a
dismal hegemony where pseudo-diversity reigns and yet another kind of
'mere anarchy is loosed upon the world?'
Jesse Shipway is a freelance writer and editor.
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__
Harbour side suburb
__ Didn't Walter Benjamin fulminate at what the university had become.
__
__ I saw him speak once here in Hobart and an articule I wrote that
used some of his ideas was described in the Years Work in English
Studies in this way: Tasmania is also foregrounded in Jesse Shipway's
'Wishing for Modernity:
Especially well served by critics in 2003 was M
What too is the status of the claim to professional communication and
is it bound by edges as well? If there is a degree zero of
communicative exchange (rather than action) for professionals it must
inhabit some space between client and provider.
__
__ and Tolia-Kelly, P.
__
__ There is no way the event could have gone ahead without your
tireless attention to detail and keeping the subcommittee informed
about how things were going.
__
__ This at least is what happens in my in-laws mind.
__ Even so, a refusal of privatization and the positing of an
alternative value rationality based around a more mystical, magical,
well-nigh deified notion of the state stand as empirical claims to a
reading of the enduring enchantments of Tasmanian modernity.
__
__ It was quite different here from Westminster, she thought, getting
off at Chancery Lane.
__
__ This strategy often works for academics, as it seems to boost their
social status and reverence.
__
__ From an identity politics perspective, equal recognition would
remove any stigma attached to sexuality, race, religion, age, weight,
wealth and so on.
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__
Comforting but unglamorous, sordid and cloying, even, from the
perspective of the cosmopolitan, the township is a place to grow up and
a place to retire to.
__
__ I was a bit of loner I suppose, a bit of a misfit.
__
__ But even this is almost certainly a mistake.
__
__
Another kind of weak openness to difference is the
culture-as-consumer-choice scenario.
__
__
Inequality
Recognition versus redistribution - both, neither or one of the two -
the world is getting better all the time.
__
__ Tarts, also.
__
__ It's a simple as the saying to oneself that one is this or that kind
of writer or thinker.
__ If seeing is believing in the positivist world-order, the
twenty-thousand Tasmanians who ventured out to get a glimpse of their
new boats on their arrival in Hobart in September, 2002, could hardly
be blamed for thinking they were living in an enchanted state.
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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.
__
__ Consider the passage below.
__
__ I am aware of course that many academics fetishise footnotes
especially the pretty ones that fit along the edge of the page, just
inside the margin.
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__
The current culmination of the Olympic cycle in London makes this unity
demonstrable even as it reaffirms the problematic operability of nation
states as figures of communality that have a constant dynamic
potentiality - whose moral valency is either more or less positive or
more or less negative -that is itself charged on a large, almost
universal scale with an intense affectivity that can be triggered or
released at certain times, in certain situations - of which the Olympic
is one -by a considerable but possibly circumscribed range of symbols,
myths, legends and performance regimes- of which again, the Olympics is
one.
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__ I love this idea .
__
__ Meanings of objects for Bourdieu are formed in relation to values in
the economy of production.
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__
Smaller communities need not by necessity be hotbeds of patriotism,
boosterism, insularity, intolerance or prejudice.
__
__ This fantasy would become truth if they transposed it into the realm
of the one reality that each person knows, into the domain of their own
sensitivity.
__
__ Perhaps your greatest strength as a writer is that you are able to
write in a clear and coherent way about a broad range of topics that
can make some of the more prickly theories seem obfuscatory or
unnecessarily dense, obscurantist and so on.
__
__ And stuff is dearer here, but I suppose they can convince themselves
ty are the be al and end of humanity.
__
__ Nobody else can read it right!
because nobody else is quite as self-centred as me.
__
__ The exotic - which is a more or less subjective category - should
probably not be confused with the cosmopolitan, which seems to tend
more toward the objective and the empirically verifiable.
__
__ (Daddy was a writer so I am too.
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__ I agree!!
So again, I write and read academically out of a sense of obligation to
our school for making me an honorary research fellow - just a few
months my father said to me "well, we've never had one of those in the
family", which of course he could also have said if I had become a
thief or a bonds trader, but I'm please he's pleased.
__ In the form of a keenness to retain control of our electricity
utilities, a public policy position made hegemonic in the West through
the 1950s, 60s and early-70s has been allowed to bleed into the third
millennium.
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__ Financial centres.
__
__ It is inside me most of all, All of our actions are not driven by
affect even if we could name our feelings and map their economy.
__ Somehow, for Bacon, this proved no problem.
__
__ In this way the novel uses objects as a literary device to perform.
__
__ Tarts, also.
__
__ Derrida may or may not have been right here about the need to
displace the voice in favour of the grammatoligical act.
__
__ The problem now is that there is only one time and place, a single
world in other words, larger and more populous than the other universes
that humans have lived in.
__
__ Free markets have accelerated urban growth and reduced employment in
agricultural production.
__
__ There is, however, another direction in which the semantic energies
generated by the term cosmopolitan take us.
__
__ Only read your own poems.
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Inequality
Recognition versus redistribution - rorty, nancy fraser
Social inclusion
Human Rights Discourse/legislation - anti-discrimination commissioners
Affirmative action
Free markets versus planning
Natural inequality - do equalisation policies exacerbate or reduce
inequality
Inequality and happiness - ataraxia, tranquilty
Religion - opiate of the masses versus ultimate equality - the wquality
of all souls before god, hindu inequality played out through the caste
system
Fualt lines of inequality - the middle class movement in the US -
huffington post
Collective bargaining
Star systems - sport, publishing, commerce
Executive pay rates
Dienst - the world economy is more unequal than any national economy
Gini co-efficient - Bolivia the worst - 93.
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.
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__ If you can't tell people, surely you can show them.
__ To paraphrase Marx's rule of thumb, the countries that are more
reformed neo-classically will only show to those less reformed, the
image of their own future.
__
__ In that
case the surface upon which this note is preserved, the pocket-book or
sheet
of paper, is as it were a materialized portion of my mnemic apparatus,
the rest
of which I carry about with me invisible.
__
__ 2007.
__
__ Yet, as we argue, the emphasis in philosophy research has primarily
been in relation to the expressive or symbolic sense of home rather
than its relational impact on human action.
__
__ , Moby Dick, Dean and Son, London.
__
__ I am overwhelmed with the feeling that life is very short and we
have so little time to forge relationships that are necessary to
sustain us.
__ The enchanting effects of this charismatic promotion of an
unfashionable value rationality - government intervention in the free
market - was compounded by the nomenclature chosen for the new vessels.
__
__ British brick work in the arc lights and the fog or the smog.
__
__ , viewed on 24 March 2011.
__
__ It is therefore the affordances of objects that enable us to derive
meaning and significance.
__
__ Pollock, H.
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__ "Time breaks the threaded dances/And the diver's brilliant bow.
__
__ It makes me think of Gwen Harwood's Krote poems about the émigré
music master trying to work out how to live in Tasmania.
__
__ Now I try to let people be on their own terms - to be ordinary in
most cases - and just enjoy whatever fondness or sympathy or humour is
on offer.
__
__ New York/London: Routledge.
__
__ Nonetheless it will constitute a watershed in human history,
comparable to the Neolithic or Industrial revolutions.
__
__
Politicians have the opportunity to shape the present and the future of
the nation in ways the average citizen, public commentator and academic
can only dream of - if they dream in this direction.
__
__ When the individual who habitually elevates herself above other
people surrenders her idealised, smug and superior self-image, then and
perhaps only then, has something of value been given away.
__
__ Human beings in the present moment are part of an edgeless world
that needs no metaphor because of its spherical composition.
__
__ Now it is just impossible for a Londoner to feel like this.
__
__ But even though it is demonstrably the case that human subjects
almost always work with tools (Heidegger) and in specific environments,
with prevailing weather patterns, with pain in parts of their bodies,
with forgotten histories shaping the landscape and so on.
__
__ Boston: Beacon Press.
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__ .
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__ The sports fans who love blood more than the game.
__
__ Social value was highly consistent across subjects, independent of
particular images displayed, and only partially predictive of how long
subjects chose to view each image.
__
__ Almost all of us keep an eye on mind prices even though they mean
very little if we only own one property and we need somewhere to live.
__
__ 4
Perhaps I have a better view of how the university and higher education
fit in the social world, and I don;t just mean from a functionalist
perspective.
__
__ and Tolia-Kelly, P.
__
__ If we accept this understanding of the self, then objects, both
personal and material, can be viewed as repositories for identity
formation.
__
__ Unlike health care or education, governments have seldom endeavoured
to provide guaranteed, permanent risk free philosophy its population,
especially in liberal democratic capitalist societies.
__
__ e a real man),
.
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__
Cornelius Castoriadis, The Imaginary Institution of Society, trans.
__
__ And the mere fact that he had rebelled against the money code and
wouldn't settle down in the prison of a 'good' job--a thing no woman
will ever understand--had brought a quality of impermanence, of
deception, into all his affairs with women.
__
__
On the one hand then, the home has been read as an object that
illuminates our anxieties about the modern world through negation.
__
Chakrabarty's reading of the conjunction of the refusal of historicism
in India and its implications for thinking the category of the
political folds back over itself to problematise the European tradition
of the concept of the political, more specifically, as I have already
noted, in terms of the conviction that universal education must
necessarily precede universal suffrage.
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__ 74-84,
Hurdley, R.
__
__ We've joked about it before but I know you're fond of Gilbert Ryle's
claim that England's' greatest intellectual invention is common sense.
__
__ The real estate industry tells us that our homes are our main
financial asset and indispensible to anyone seeking security and
prosperity in ideologically naturalised capitalism.
__
__ 'O, My friend, there is no friend'.
__
__
My answer was that the neocons are back because Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Putin never went away.
__
__ (1999) 'Lowering the drawbridge: a case study of analogy and
metaphor in the social construction of home-ownership', Urban Studies
36 (10): 1705-1722.
__
__ (1994) 'The technology of enchantment and the enchantment of
technology' in Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics in J.
__
__ .
__
__ Too much contemporary theory remains tied to the very modes of
self-representation that belong to globalised capital and its
technologies.
__
__ Contamination, with its implication of a soiled or diluted purity,
is a useful phrase to capture the felt effects of unwanted change
inflicted on townships and provincial locations in the name of
cosmopolitan progress.
__
__ That, too, was money.
__
__ i spent the next few days catching a bus past a river to the cinema
somewhere in the city.
__
__ .
__
__ If you are given a snippy little glance for wearing old clothes you
must ask who these critics think they are.
__
__ To go to him through a medium - like Kojeve for instance or heavan
forbid Francis Fukuyama is only just excusable.
__
__ As I have said, it is meant to be instructional.
__
__
You hear about it all the time, if the whole human race consisted of
100 hundred people.
__
__ What of course serves as a catalyst to generate meaning is the
agency of individuals.
__
__
The centre of all his minds was always the vaulted dining room where he
enjoyed long Georgian feasts with his henchmen, this one at Sochi.
__
__ In this paper, we claim in an oblique way that it also has a
knowledge equality with purer areas of research such as the tight,
dense discourses of contemporary analytic philosophy or the arcane,
erudite theoretical work of scholars such as Badiou, Negri, Agamben,
Massumi et al.
__
__ 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.
__
__ When I was in Year 12, my sociology teacher put it thus: as you get
older you have less life to lose if you die so you should be willing to
take greater risks.
__
__ She would become a doctor, a farmer, possibly go into Parliament, if
she found it necessary, all because of the Strand.
__
__ Appiah writes of his home city of Asante:
Above all relationships are changing.
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__ , viewed 26
May 2010.
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__
But anyway, how can you marry on two quid a week? Money, money, always
money! The devil of it is, that outside marriage, no decent
relationship with a woman is possible.
__
__ I'd like to ask then where your commitment to writing in plain
English comes from, whether it's a principled stand to do with opening
academic writing into the public realm, whether it's something you were
taught or encouraged to do during your training at Manchester and the
LSE and the within the British system, or whether it's a sign of a
reluctance, possibly a lack of confidence, in playing the knowledge
game in more creative and risky ways?
KJ: Yes let's focus on difference.
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__
Gurney, C.
__
__ Rather than marking a partial modernity, the implication of the
peasant in the processes of the political loosens up the European
heritage of the term and provides us with the intellectual space to
read modernity otherwise.
__
__
The free and easy harbour side suburb with its kaleidoscope of sights
and sounds, performances and spectacles masks a carelessness and
indifference that is more than skin deep.
__
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__ i have work too, but my hands are so soft.
__
__ To get straight to the point I will answer your question about my
commitment to plain English.
__
__ I have written poems that have, I think, displayed some of the
characteristics of poems.
__
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__
Contamination
I would like to conclude by pursuing a line of argument that might help
draw together the other threads that run through this chapter.
__
__
__ Second, Proust work shows that the self is always materialised,
there is no essentialised version of the self.
__
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__ Think about the fixations.
__
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__ We even had to watch history stop only to start up again with a
vengeance a few years later.
__
__
Cornelius Castoriadis, Imaginary Institution, p.
__
__ It invites fervent speculation or, as Walter Mignolo writes, 'Let's
assume then that globalization is a set of designs to manage the world
while cosmopolitanism is a set of projects toward planetary
conviviality.
__
__ Ralston Saul, The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the
World, Penguin, Camberwell, 2005.
__
__
__ , Streams of Cultural Capital: Transnational Cultural Studies
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997).
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__
The criticism of deconstruction on the grounds of its apolitical
relativism that was led by Jurgen Habermas nwo seems to be a easily
underwtood reaction to the rabid pluralism and relativism o the age of
narcissism, rampant doxa, venal pundits, political spin doctors, newly
emboldened bourgos ideological naturalisation of the means of priction
and so on.
__
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__ the camera in to the av in on the tv and show my father some photos.
__
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__
the captain's queen,
analysand and david frost.
__
__ And at a certain point, no one knows how or why, someone flashed her
ass, and from there the evening took off.
__
__ The kind of site-based readings of modernity included in anthologies
like Dilip Gaonkar's Alternative Modernities, Tani E.
__
__ In his essay, 'Proximity: from asymptote to zeugma', Alan Lawson
uses those eponymous rhetorical figures to symbolise the impossibility
of seeing from the perspective of the Aboriginal other and of
imaginatively inhabiting the body of the interrogated subject.
__
__
I suppose I am, if nothing else, a product of my times.
__
__
__ trace your pointer on its razor beaches air conditioned sentence
movement .
__
__ Old scores unsettled, family feuds, long held animosities,
self-righteousness, bigotry, entrenched power, property rights, Jim
Crow laws, patriotism, civic duty, homeland, the two-state solution and
native title are all about boundaried separatism.
__
__
__ .
__
__ If this assertion seems too resolute, we might temper it with the
qualifier that when location is residually invoked in methodological or
applied discussion of Cultural Studies it is invariably couched in
terms of nation or nationality.
__
__ Non-Representational Theory, Space, Politics, Affect.
__
__
__ Tasmania is a human construction; an arrangement or configuration of
basic elemental particles; of sense impressions made solid through the
passing of time; of incidents made history through the discipline of
narrative, of nature made readable by the power of interpretation.
__
__ I imagine the harbour side suburb as a vast commercial city that
hectically blends the third and first worlds, the old and the new, the
sacred and the profane.
__
__
__ Many people consign all politicians to the ashcan of history and
offer their viewing rights to sportspeople and entertainers.
__
__ See Greg Lehman, "Will You Take the Next Step?," Unpublished paper
for the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council, n.
__
__ Every world has an edge and a centre.
__
__ A child on a cold snowy night, leaning against the dam, spreading
her arms out along the dam wall, she felt as a child searching for
reassurance, as if the huge construction were some long-lost parent.
__
__
__ While we would like dearly to be able to look at Tasmania through
the eyes of its European explorers, or more daringly to approximate
from the position of a privileged insider, the cultural codings devised
by the indigenes to account for the arrival of those interlopers, we
know that we cannot.
__
__ Affordances are multiple, operating both in practical ways and
symbolically (see Harré 2002).
__
__ She might own a thousand acres and have people under her.
__
__ At least where reason has been made suspect and speech acts start to
look like animal howls, emotional outpourings, gendered stances and so
on.
__
__
__ Some of us came out richer and more powerful, almost like Thor,
expelled from Asgard, there we were again with competitive friends
admiring the gold mine we had dug out down near the creek.
__
__ I suppose I am drawn to novels because they do provide solace.
__
__ The history of a set of ideas that folded over itself to make an
imprint on the social world from the time of the Enlightenment, through
the formation of nation-states, industrialisation, urbanisation and
onto the vanishing present, is displaced from that social world and the
built-in tension between a trajectory of the ideal - Western
rationality as grand narrative - and a trajectory of the material -
historical context - is allowed to fizzle out.
__
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__ how sad it was that her son-in-law died in that helicopter accident.
__
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__ A key difference about the post=scarcity society is that when you're
broke you can still normally find food, basic philosophy.
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we all have the past as if it were pleasant.
__
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__ Just as unpromising is the patronising 'welcome mat' cosmopolitanism
laid out by the conscientious citizen revelling in her role as
'national' host.
__
__ The Great Lake and Gordon/Lake Pedder storages are the backbone of
the Tasmanian system.
__
__
__ '
i walk again across the road
down there near the school
and feel bereft,
jobless, sore
ailments have me as claws
have a crab.
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__ To cut a long story short, I contend that the urgency with which
Gaonkar endorses non-Western site-based analyses of the discrepant
careers of modernity also applies in the case of sub-national
settler-locations like Tasmania.
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__ The romans had their limits, like the Genoese, the dutch and the
English in later iterations.
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__ but of course, it doesn't really matter.
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She liked people who were ill.
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__ I'm totally over talking about Tasmania so I want start ranting
here.
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Appadurai, A.
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__ What I don't understand is this in-your-faceness.
__
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__ Perhaps he would have preferred the vivid imaginings of the
isolario, with their curlicue fonts, their sea monsters, savages and
cartographic exotica.
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__ (2001) Theory, culture and philosophy, Philosophy, theory and
society, 17, pp.
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__ But only God is perfect.
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__ We bond with our loved ones before we are reasonable.
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__ In naming this last group, we are stating facts and do not wish to
launch into a paranoid reading of the motivations of knowledge
professionals working in the broad philosophy area.
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screeching grains or grants.
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__ nothing takes but children growing.
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__ In the late 1980s and 1990s scholars such as Saunders and Williams
(1988), Gurney (1999) and Sommerville (1997) considered home in terms
of its ontological significance.
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__ We care, when we do, with prejudice and preference and a variable
intensity that wanes and flags as the objects of (dis)affection become
more remote.
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__ Much of the novel is taken up by Marcel seeking to account for the
way his love for a succession of women (Gilberte and later Albertine)
fade and or recast in the light of subsequent knowledge and experience.
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__ Dorothy Hewitt, Bobbin Up (London: Virago, 1985).
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repellent anodyne.
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__ everyone seemed so daggy, didn't they.
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__ The need to think home as more than just the mind, to grasp the
built as itself a matter of the formation of the self, and so also to
understand philosophy as involving more than just a matter of shelter
(or as an opportunity for investment).
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__ Either that or they just aren't impressed by the particular skill
that the younger man possesses.
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One of the major lines of inquiry I develop in this chapter concerns
the distinction between the harbour side suburb and the township.
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__ (eds) (2001) Home Possessions: Material Culture Behind Closed Doors,
London: Berg.
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__
Cosmopolitan dreams wrestle with the angel of chauvinism.
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__ This edge, which has a fold as well as a cutting face, slices
through various factors of identification and provides the writing
subject (qualified, published, interdisciplinary and so on )with a
mental figure freed from biography, income, attractiveness and
political imaginings.
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__ and livy too with splints.
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__ Think of ugly people who make themselves uglier in the pursuit of
beauty.
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__ At one level his novel is very similar to contemporary ethnographic
research in which there is both thick description, critical
self-reflection and diagnostic psychologically informed analysis of the
actions of the key characters in the novel.
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__ I think lonely people read a lot because they are looking for signs
of life that match their own, or they are looking for people to love or
admire.
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__ 1-11.
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the trefoil crest.
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__ that conversion too was
done in situ, i placed it with the decoder, voice activated, external
hard drive, follicle of ear-horn, volume up.
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Proust
We now turn to the work of Proust to develop our arguments.
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__ I will talk about people who are only just born.
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__ she's no dear friend or confidant.
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__ It may be more machinic in this sense than technically difficult
work in literary criticism or historiography.
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__ If I was to say right now, that I am that I am and that I wake up on
the right side of neo-liberal global society, would this even be a tiny
bit true? Would it sound poetic? Should I try to make it sound poetic.
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__ On this view, cosmopolitanism also names a fundamental openness to
alterity that goes beyond nations and ethnicities to the other factors
or strata of identity formation such as gender, sexuality, age,
disability and so on.
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65 i tell my children not to crawl,
or sprawl in front of broadcast light.
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__ As European modernity evolves through time, the telos of development
edges further away.
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__ As a number of writers have made clear, for the first time in world
history more human beings live in urban centres than the countryside.
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__ Which is to say that i watn to continue the possible antique
restoration of the bios at the heart of writing anf of the placed bios
that is anchored more or less solidly to the archive in a kind of
umbblical relation that is not in its own right babyish and wold be
figured better by the sahred embodiment that allows conkoined twins who
share the same heart and lungs to live as more or less individuated
beings.
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__ Objects are acted up and transformed through a personal engagement.
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__ waiting for the grant and vision, hoping for a crowd.
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__ Negotiation becomes a synonym for serious play.
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__ my craft will not be missed.
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__ Proust's work serves as a reminder of the need for critical
self-reflection; that our subjective responses are always contingent
and context derivative.
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__ Gayatri Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History
of the Vanishing Present (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).
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__ We are taught to accept massive inequalities because we see them
toed to exceptional talents.
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__ The picture on the ground is more detailed and variegated.
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__ One might be a very good farmer-and that, strangely enough though
Miss Kilman had her share in it, was almost entirely due to Somerset
Mind.
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__ Deadly games were played out in the long durée of human fragility
and an isthmus stretching to Wilson's Promontory on the south-eastern
tip of the Australian mainland provided the sufficient conditions for
southward expansion.
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"i'm perfectly glad"?
i will for once and now we hear them straightaway, now we see their
evening song of documents and mpeg streams, rationalisations that drive
all human history forward and beyond the horizon of the vanishing
present.
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Causality
For Proust, habitual ways of thinking seeing the work afresh and as it
really is.
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__ matching comments one for one, outdoing, showing you have known it
too.
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Many human beings believe that humans are innately hierarchical
animals.
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__ 2001 and 2008) working in the field of material culture.
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__ For those possessed of capital, cultural and otherwise, a new
optimism is gathering momentum.
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__ What speaks to us in their place are the strata of sediment that
layer them and are shaped by them.
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__ Oxford, Basil Blackwell.
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__ First, in our desire to understand the modern world, and our place
within it, we have embraced a version of the 'modern' as somehow being
liquid and distantiated from place.
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__ Fifteen miles to the west there was Odessa, sprawling and oozing,
its most striking feature the fenced-off fields with row after row of
oil field equipment that looked like rusting military weapons from a
once-great war.
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__ 1-116.
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__ they used to drink beer in at noon in the soaking heat.
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__ Dreams of purity wrestle with the spectre of miscegenation.
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__ 235) identifies the three main roles ascribed to objects within past
analyses: objects as the "invisible and faithful tools" of human
subjects; objects as "determining superstructure", that is the fixed
material terrain on which human activity is staged; and objects as
"projection screens" for human values.
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__ The wheels of Keynesian state capitalism were ratcheted up
gear-upon-gear in an attempt to squeeze whatever life was left out of
the fading post-war boom, but a series of ever-grander civil projects,
culminating in the flooding of Lake Pedder in 1974, left the State
Government with a crippling debt and ushered in a new reactionary
politics of ecological conservation.
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__ The vapour widens and rises - all the way to the top of the tree of
knowledge.
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__ I much prefer the terms collage, pastiche, parody, caricature and so
on not only because I have worked profitably in these media myself.
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Cross-country cosmopolitanism: openness, place, contamination
Jesse Shipway
Openness
Within what might be called the political field, the subject who is
without name or rank, a stranger perhaps to herself as well as others,
an absolute stranger even but at home nonetheless in the kosmos as
'order, ornament, world' , conducts herself as autonomous for herself
and, in doing so, is disposed, in a more or less open manner, to the
others she encounters and knows.
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__ In the end, a weary, indifferent and, at bottom, racist
administration let its policies drift toward palliative care and the
Aborigines were left to dwindle out the "final chapter" of their race
history at Oyster Cove, south of Hobart.
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__ These motivations apply to all the different kinds of work that I
do.
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__ Equally it seems that the openness to the other that inspires some
of the finer works of the humanist imagination within the disciplines
of history, literary criticism and postcolonial studies is not
unrelated to the openness to the other that is so central to
cosmopolitan theory and practice.
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__ The philosophy market has become more and more aggressive over the
years in its attempt to bond philosophy prestige with ontological and
financial secutiry as well as both fuelling and assuagein status
anxiety.
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__ That all the books and all the rivers have been made for me alone is
the first truth of this tract.
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__ But I know you frame your peregrinations through literature and
philosophy and so on.
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__ I don't write necessarily to try and understand the world more or
better or to tell people what I think about the world.
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__ The ways we adorn our homes and how we think about what the objects
of the home therefore constitutes what can be described as the modern
self.
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And so, philosophy scholarship has tended to focus on the symbolism and
semantics of home: by inquiring into its representational force for
individual and collective subjects engaged in modern self-fashioning;
by examining how neighbourhoods are scaled along indices of prestige;
through considerations of the metaphorical phrasing of home as refuge,
den, sanctuary, jail and so on; and by casting a light on the largely
phantasmatic coding of property prices and their relationship to real
and imagined wealth.
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__
The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning
tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth, in such quantity
as he might see fit, and reasonably expect their early delivery upon
his doorstep.
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__ the broken link.
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__ To be a role so well that one is acclaimed is rarer now than ever
before, not least because informationalisation has made so many of the
book learnt Western citizens into interchangeable parts - transposable
to various nodes of the symbolic system and and functional or valuable
there with surprisingly little in the way of specific organisational
memory, jokes, prejudices and so on.
__
__
__ Equally the most stratified and socio-economicly immobile nation on
earth could have just decided to be nice to its poor and desperate in
an event kind of 'divine violence' that would finally de-reify the
frozen and ominously mortaged voodoo nation (Michael Kieth) that is
not, was not and never will be great again, Great Britain.
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__ i ironed my shirts and thought about
shuttering down for grey sky break.
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__ Fuelled by speculation, investment, risk management, credit default
swaps, collateralised debt obligations.
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__ Well this doesn't leave us with very much.
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__
On a global scale, capital was more concentrated and predatory than
ever, and the working class had actually increased in size.
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__ I write then to pass the time, to make something of myself, to go on
little intellectual journeys and hopefully then to share the sum of my
training and talents with readers somewhere out there.
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__ between Rock formations have edges as Aggres sion is I do not want
this to end here and I hope it is published by a leading journal or
publisher.
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__ the recession never seemed to go away; all those empty shops.
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we don't know the concrete beds the ocean loci street map beach.
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__ 9; Bobbi Sykes, "A Re-make: This Time with a Camera," Filmnews,
(January 1979), p.
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__ The g20, the G8, the security council.
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__ The intellectual tradition that informs our thinking about modernity
only makes room for Tasmania in its implication that the cognitive and
social transformations that we normally identify as modern have had an
impact here.
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__ The newcomer has little choice but to accept the embrace with the
self-conscious awkwardness of second-class belonging.
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__ She might be a farmer.
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__ So she might be a doctor.
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__ I do not mean that the pleasure is on the edge or caused by the
finality and logical termination of the edge.
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__ 1 (2000), p.
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__ A dour struggle for industrialisation followed and despite being
hamstrung by a leaking population and the tyranny of distance
redoubled, Tasmania's economy was slowly ground forward into the 20th
century.
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__ Which is not to say that this sort of situation cannot enable a more
substantial symbolic transaction.
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__ Never read a poem.
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__ My poetic method is basically a kind of translation.
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__ It can coordinate and direct our orientations, inform our opinions,
give content to snap summations and imbue instant impressions with a
decisive valency: I hate you/I like you; I grew here/You flew here;
You're like me/You're not like me; I belong here/You have no right to
be here.
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__
BELL HOOKS in the biggest capital letters you can choose on word 2007.
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__ In Search of Lost Time (date) Vol 5 p.
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__ He and his advisers tapped into the mytho-poetic aura that continues
to give the Hydro schemes a preternatural glow.
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__ 2000.
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__ Philosophy is an applied social science but it fast becoming much
more than that.
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__ 4.
__
__ Chakrabarty goes on to tell us that every attempt to write history
necessarily invokes a "hyperreal" Europe at its epistemological limits
and disciplinary foundations:
Insofar as the academic discourse of history - that is, "history" as a
discourse produced at the institutional site of the university is
concerned, "Europe" remains the sovereign theoretical subject of all
histories, including the ones we call "Indian" "Chinese", "Kenyan," and
so on.
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For it was not the intrinsic beauty of the objects themselves that made
it miraculous for me to be sitting in Swann's library, it was the
attachment to those objects - which might have been the ugliest in the
world - of the particular feeling, melancholy and voluptuous, which I
had for so many years localised in that room and which still
impregnated it.
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__ In other words, we want to continue to enrich philosophy and push
further into the adventurous margins that have been opened up in recent
years by bringing a broad arts and humanities vocabulary and a supple,
precise prose style to questions about relationality, objects and
memory in the home.
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__ In the Hegelian model of the state, civil society must be
supplemented with a view from above that manages to reconcile the
interests of the whole with the interests of the individual:
The […] substantiality of the state consists in the fact that its end
is the universal interest as such and the conservation therein of
particular interests since the universal interest is the substance of
these […] but this very substantiality of the state is Spirit knowing
and willing itself […] The state, therefore, knows what it wills and
knows it in its universality […] Hence it works and acts by reference
to consciously adopted ends, known principles and laws which are not
merely implicit but are actually present to consciousness; and further
it acts with precise knowledge of existing conditions and
circumstances.
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__ Is this kind of valorisation of the local a legitimate and positive
move unmotivated by ressentiment, or is it merely another instance of
what Hardt and Negri describe as "yoking uniqueness into a hegemonic
power field"? Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2000), p.
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__ 9 william Heinemann, London, 2010.
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__ Could this ongoing inquiry really be driven by nothing more
stumpfsinnig than the black romance of gothic Germania and Nazi
fatherland.
__
__ Magdalena Nowicka and Maria Rovisco alert us here to critical
readings of triumphalist 'notions of cosmopolitical coexistence' that
have little time for:
(The) vision of a cosmopolitan global public sphere which remains
oblivious of the neo-liberal logic of global capitalism, especially
with regards to the imbalance in power relations created by an
allegedly cosmopolitan North that is sustained by global exploitation.
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__ Which asks us of course about the status of narcissistic fantasies
submitted under a recognised title like research fellow which should
surely be cut down by some kind of scythe before even the sheriffs of
peer review mount their side-saddle stallions.
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One Brother at Morecombe Bay, the other, somewhere in his submarine.
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__ when the mill finally packs it in, well that'll be it won't it.
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__
Alan Wood is arguably the most high-profile Australian defender of
neo-classical economic reforms and the free trade avatar to which they
are directed.
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__ they liked the empty streets, seemed to think the world was already
too crowded.
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sovereign king who knew himself was cut
adrift, a gangland scalp, his eyes were peeled
a side issue.
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TM: The whole evening felt like I was in a cheap TV show with some guy
in a corner playing the keyboards and singing.
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the furrowed nape.
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__ We can see our heroes but for them the theatre is black.
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__ From this perspective, objects in the home are viewed as to what
they tell us about social status and aspiration.
__
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__ at least that's what you called her, half joking, levelling silly
little distinctions, as if the title meant something, signified
elegance and snobbery and ease.
__
__ When one no longer seeks money or recognition, one is confronted by
the dismal realisation that so many worthy truths - Schopenhaur's,
Butler's, Freud's; the list is almost endless - have not been enough to
stave off the violence, inequality, demoralisation, obesity, mental
illness, narcissism, brutality, hypocrisy and so on that we have down
here in South Hobart.
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__ The confused conclusions to their accounts bespeak a crisis in that
transition narrative.
__
__ The revolutionary potential of a "minor place" moves outwards from
the margins, deterritorializing the "fragile community" of the dominant
other.
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__ Car buffs who worked at fried chicken restaurants would have just as
much chance as the afore mentioned CEOs to buy an Aston AMrtin and
thereby receive the recongitoin reserved for such a purchase.
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__ my ears are too big.
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__ my knees bend in and i kick my legs when i run.
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__ The main difference is the currency in which universities trade is
not just monetary but also peculiarly academic in its emphasis on peer
prestige and recognition and the temporal rights to self-directed
research itself.
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__ Following the abolition of convictism, the island's name was changed
to Tasmania in a reflex action of forced amnesia, and semi-autonomous
self-government was gained in 1855.
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Contemporary Tasmania is as small and marginal as it has always been.
__
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__ i was folding clothes too and joey was playing with his new lego
game.
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__ And while we congratulate ourselves for making another monthly
repayment we are reminded of the landlords whose tenants pay their
mortgages, who write off their losses as negative gearing.
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__
Elevate key thinkers and summarise their findings (to be all over that
- flicking emails to everyone on the list).
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__
Perhaps I can write words that fit Habermas's ideal speech situation
more closely than those bound to the shoe shine function of mid-level
instituionalisations.
__
__ Braving dismal conditions at the Queenstown Motor Lodge in the
energy heartland of the West Coast, Bacon delivered an address that
spoke to the deep-seated attachment that Tasmanians feel to the Hydro
schemes.
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__ maybe she will.
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__ i know you feel its wounds and hear its wooden cracking ice, an oily
crystal sky.
__
__ For Heller, Weber's theory of modernity explains a world where
economics and science exert a stranglehold on the production of ends to
which individuals can aspire.
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__ no filters could disguise this joy.
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__ Keith Windschuttle, "History as Travesty of Truth,".
__
__ The texts from which 'my' harbour side suburb are pieced together
mobilise the scopic regimes of both literature and film and have a
social life that is enduring.
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__ If extra hands were needed in the harvest season, he would pay the
migrant workers who came from the north.
__
__ In his essay, "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the
Human Sciences", Jacques Derrida suggests that the nodal point that
grounds a structure must always escape the structurality of that
structure.
__
__ Furthermore it breaks the internal connection between modernity and
the historical context of Western rationalism, so that processes of
modernisation can no longer be conceived as rationalisation, as the
historical
objectification of rational structures.
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__
Material objects serves as a literary device to imagine and capture
experience.
__
__ 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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__
The cosmopolitan urge to understand, to tolerate and to remain open to
difference in all its synchronic and diachronic variety, also
structures a popular Whigish narrative in which the Enlightenment West
is portrayed as moving inexorably from an insular past to an open,
capacious future.
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__ The natural environment is now widely regarded as the state's
greatest asset and its isolation and partial modernisation are
increasingly being understood as a great potentiality rather than an
onerous millstone.
__
__ These narratives and the "first in Europe, then elsewhere" structure
of global historicist time upon which they stand have been instrumental
in the establishment of problematics for the writing of Third World
histories.
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__ We put it in writing when it is supposed ot formalised which seems
to invert Derrida's schema.
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__ rich outsiders there to exploit the natural resources, to add jobs,
to build the place.
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__ Not a day goes by th
.
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__ Acting as an agent of the Dutch East Indies Company, Tasman was
rumoured to be besotted with his boss's daughter, so he named the
island Van Diemen's Land in honour of the father and hoped for the
best.
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Rapoport, A.
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__
To undergird his critique, Jenkins conducts a survey of millennial
cults, astrology, new ageism, postmodern science, Disneyland,
ethnicity, television and computer games; phenomena that, to his mind
at least, demonstrate that non-empirically grounded knowledges and
Dionysian exuberance still rebuff the arrival of Weber's infamous iron
cage.
__
__ The free flow of information has brought the country to the city and
opened people's eyes to change, affluence and, to quote the poet Andrew
Sant, 'speed and other liberties.
__
__
__ Right now, for me there is nobody I can talk to about ideas in a
specialised way - at Melbourne uni it was just endless conversations,
absolutely amazing for me coming from Hobart, but ultimately too much,
too soon.
__
__ Breckenridge, S.
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__ everyone wants her car.
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__ Ideas fall and collect in lakes, rivers, forests and swamps -
libraries perhaps or professional bookshelves.
__
__ I think if we aim to focus our thoughts and imagine, as we write,
that we are addressing each other face to face even as we have time to
correct and recorrect our words, we will end up with a document that is
of some objective value.
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__ (Nietzsche Twiligh of th eidlos, 45)
I have been quoted myself of course, and at first I found it thrilling.
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__
Certain popular music ensembles also have recourse to the matrix of
plane and edge and we were reminded of this again and again by the
album covers, voice sounds, attempts to erect dividing lines between
radicals, drop-outs, alternative lifestylers and the more or less
capitalistically obedient.
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The language I have learnt these forty years,
My native English, now I must forego,
And now my tongue's use is to me no more
Than an unstringèd viol or a harp,
Or like a cunning instrument cased up,
Or being open, put into his hands
That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
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__
Hobart is, in fact, a good focus for concentrating our thinking about
the way in which cosmopolitanism is staged beyond the city walls of the
demonstrable and self-evident harbour side suburb.
__
__ All objects in the home have more than an aesthetic dimension, and
our relationship with them is plural; for example aesthetic
contemplation, practical utility etc.
__
__ Nowicka & M.
__
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__ isn't it funny that provincial glamour? the town seemed to bustle.
__
__ The idea that units of acceptable social information are always
ideological is only to say that they are intentional in the
epistemological sense of that word Where you might ask would a
non-privileeged edge exist and how could an edge transmit power.
__
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__ A good example of this is electronic music.
__
__
nequality in Australia: Does region matter? NATSEM University of
Canberra
Source -
Meritocracy
Equality of opportunity, equality of outcome
We were terrified of dying
Nothing allows us to assert that the framework of gestures comprising
productive labour in the narrow sense is 'truer' or more 'real' than
the ensemble of meanings in which these gestures have been interwoven
by those who perform them.
__
__ 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.
__
__
__ (2006) Title Sociology 40, 4, 717-733.
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__
I mention freedom here at the beginning of this chapter because, as I
read the situation, cosmopolitanism must be freely chosen if it is to
hold any significant emancipatory or redemptive value.
__
__ I am convinced that a melancholic disposition has provided me with
an opportunity to see the world more as it really is and to be able to
connect to other people.
__
__ We are taught to accept massive inequalities because we see them
toed to exceptional talents.
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Material objects and the home
Daniel Miller's work in informed by earlier anthropological studies
that show that not only to we imbue objects with human qualities but
often objects are viewed in human ways (see Hoskins 1998: 76) to the
extent that objects can be regarded as having a biography.
__
__ Again, the guilt kicks in.
__
__
__ John Nash on the other hand went nuts after making his great
discoveries and
The basicidea of communicative action.
__
__ , Italian Cultural Studies: An Introduction (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1996); Helen Graham and Jo Labanyi, eds.
__
__
__ In comparison to other OECD countries, the latest data available in
the year 2000, shows that Australia sat at around the middle rank
(ranked 12 out of 26
reported OECD countries from the highest to the lowest inequality) with
a Gini coefficient
of 0.
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__ 9 - Japan and New Zealand best - 4.
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__ (like christian metz on film, the shot as rich letter
that already makes sense).
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__ , viewed 26 May 2010.
__ Hyman Minsky's tellingly entitled book Can it Happen Again is a
fine example of an unconcealed neurotic resistance to even speaking the
phobic object's
name, while Paul Krugman's The Return of Depression Economics examines
the anamnesis
of the Great Depression in the wake of the Asian Financial Crisis.
__ 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.
__ the crimson burl or eventide.
__ Inundation swept evolutionary becomings into unmapped channels and a
new civilisation was born.
__
__ The trains were still running then and the suburban shopping malls
in Glenorchy, Clarence and Kingston hadn't been constructed.
__ 48.
__ In Barthes' terms, the archive is a scriptible rather than a lisible
web of texts.
__ i thought her teacher didn't like her very much.
__
__ 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.
__ If destruction is set in train, it is surely a creative destruction.
__
__ These data demonstrate that that visual orienting decisions reflect
the specific social content of visual information and provide the first
experimental evidence that monkeys spontaneously discriminate images of
others based on social status.
__
__ D.
__
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we all have the past as if it were pleasant.
__
__ Affordances are multiple, operating both in practical ways and
symbolically (see Harré 2002).
__ my nose is bulbous.
__
__ (2010) Stuff, Cambridge: Polity Press.
__ Transposing the experience of the dominant party into the language
of the subaltern would surely have produced more satisfactory
transferential dynamics than the repetition of the preferred
terminology of the criminals, itself cheaply knocked up to conjure a
massified murderous act into a positive social outcome.
__ where would i lose myself? in what dimension could i come unstuck
enough to see myself go?a variation on what's done here.
__
__ 28.
__ Like Williams climbing in the bus above the Welsh valley where he
was raised, how could a Tasmanian resist being struck by the very
closeness and familiarity of home? Home, after all, is always a site of
heterogeneity, a difference whose sameness soothes the soul.
__
Historical events and material forms contribute to the character of a
location, but their delineation so often posits reified entities
dangerously lacking in vitality.
__
Nifty Christmas Fuselage
the players will meet again, in other words, on new turf somewhere
else, next year.
__
__ It was quite different here from Westminster, she thought, getting
off at Chancery Lane.
__ man was not made to dwell on this, to chase the monsters in our
souls.
__
__ I socialise more with family than with friends and a lot of my older
friends - friends I've known since I was a kid - seem like family more
or less.
__ Reynolds also turns his attention to the question of the Shoah.
__ that working class pride, that masculine urge to produce and to
labour and to keep on pushing through to the end of the shift.
__
they prop her up with pills and flowers,
watch her sit for minutes, hours,
just how long
it takes to change her mind.
__
__ How easy it used to be to feel as if the world was being controlled
from some kind of nerve centre or network hub.
__ 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.
__
__ I am convinced that a melancholic disposition has provided me with
an opportunity to see the world more as it really is and to be able to
connect to other people.
__
__ I prefer people who are willing to be open to feeling of melancholy
and sadness and I am often frustrated by the pressures we endure to
appear upbeat and happy.
__
__ G Bissinger, Friday Night Lights, p.
__ 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.
__
__ And at a certain point, no one knows how or why, someone flashed her
ass, and from there the evening took off.
__
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.
__
__ (Proust Date)
Third, the meanings of objects require a human interaction that
effectively endows objects but the effects of objects on the human
world is not conditional on this endowment of meaning.
__ Even so, a refusal of privatization and the positing of an
alternative value rationality based around a more mystical, magical,
well-nigh deified notion of the state stand as empirical claims to a
reading of the enduring enchantments of Tasmanian modernity.
__
__ I'm thinking of my father, who as you know, is a strange sort of
person.
__
__ Place and Experience.
__ and brain scans show i worked her well.
__ just where exactly did they fit on the social ladder.
__
__ People as audiences, people as subject matter.
__
__ 48 (OECD 2006).
__
__ The racists.
__ His hermeneutic lays bare the ominous fact that writers like
Bonwick, West, Calder and Ling Roth, using only fountain pen and ink,
were actually putting the final touches to a project of extirpation
whose physical component had already wrought such bitter devastation.
__ When we talk about Tasmanian place, then, we are talking about a
combination of immediate physical awareness and cognitive mapping that
relies upon official cartography, the hybridisation of isolated place
interaction, memory and other factors for its successful production and
maintenance.
__
If the Bacon government's intention in keeping the Hydro was to
re-enchant the state through recourse to public emotion and
collectivity-forming mythological narratives, the question remained as
to how it was to get around William Connolly's diagnosis of the
implausibility of the Hegelian notion of the state in a modern world
disenchanted by empiricism.
__ 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".
__ Acting as an agent of the Dutch East Indies Company, Tasman was
rumoured to be besotted with his boss's daughter, so he named the
island Van Diemen's Land in honour of the father and hoped for the
best.
__
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.
__ impressions inches thick, the delicate crust, above a creek, that
deltas out, the grains like cake that show the smooth, soft underneath
more thorough beds of ocean sand.
__ capped and pillioned, pillory tor.
__ The workers of Raymond Williams's Wales, who left their villages and
descended upon the industrial cities in their thousands were struck by
the shapeless uniformity of the "satanic mills" in which they found
themselves.
__ will i buy the aqualung or seal it hot for creuset, polo, blue-ray.
__ 1 - keyless entry) - consistency slows at a stale pace, the slow
space of old tales, everything an affidavit.
__
__
Here, then equality is measured in terms of money but also in terms of
prestige and influence, fame, job satisfaction and so on.
__
__ One might be a very good farmer-and that, strangely enough though
Miss Kilman had her share in it, was almost entirely due to Somerset
Mind.
__
__ Marcel Proust was a contemporary of writers such as Simmel, Weber
and Durkheim and a relation of the philosopher Henri Bergson.
__ Hollingdale.
__
__ In other words, the modern subject is viewed as disengaged from the
specificity of place and home.
__
__ In comparison to other OECD countries, the latest data available in
the year 2000, shows that Australia sat at around the middle rank
(ranked 12 out of 26
reported OECD countries from the highest to the lowest inequality) with
a Gini coefficient
of 0.
__
28
a painful loop.
__ 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.
__
still
in my submarine.
__
__ J.
__ 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.
__ 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".
__
__ For Bourdieu, the meanings we attach to objects are, to a large
degree, externally imposed by the consumer values and ideology.
__ 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.
__
__
Saunders, P.
__ See Greg Lehman, "Will You Take the Next Step?," Unpublished paper
for the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council, n.
__ 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.
__
__ Schopenhauer got no publicity while film-makers seemed to get in
trouble with their supervisors, and I'm thinking here of Errol Morris
in particular who once told Thomas Kuhn that he had a god complex (Kuhn
proceeded to throw an ash tray at the presumptuous young graduate
student).
__
__ The decisive cosmopolitan antinomy - people are open or people are
closed - is, I would like to suggest, a non-place-specific formulation.
__ In the case of the latter, a more radical, disconcerting and
paradoxical situation has to unfold.
__
The history of the archive in Foucault scholarship is characterised by
effacement and elision.
__
no one else will navigate this scientific way.
__
__ .
__
__ Cocoa prices have not kept pace with the cost of living.
__
__
Politicians receive special treatment even if only by the guards at
Parliament Mind.
__
__ Boston: Beacon Press.
__ 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.
__
__ A good example of this is electronic music.
__ Offering a more integrated vision of economic commonsense and state
ideology, the Bacon opposition swept to power in a landslide.
__ peeling overboard, forensic.
__
__ I think I am fearful of rejection and the sense of loss that
inevitably follows.
__ the streams of cash.
__ In the imaginary structure which is at one remove
from economic discourse as a total system, is the Great Depression the
symbolic castration?
And is studying it not akin to revisiting the primal scene again and
again?
The Imaginary History of Financial Crises
A gentle ocular sweep across the shelves of the economic library
reveals the presence of a
semi-autonomous tradition within academic economic discourse that
attempts to theorise
crisis situations.
__ We go to it for clarification.
__ i will surface and go ashore.
__
__ World Cups, Olympics.
__ J.
__
we grip at changing tides, with mitts, so taut,
they clench our wrists.
__ Trans.
__
__ Wittgenstein's investigations are ludic in this sense.
__ The same principle is at work in sections three and four, where
material crosses over time-lines on a number of occasions.
__ The Tasmanian archive is an almost impossibly diverse entity.
__ at times i've thought i did.
__ 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.
__
__ None of this is even close to being exceptional.
__ Archival debt can always be paid by someone else, at another time.
__ 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.
__ 144-45.
__
point and line
the sea the grass the stones the shells, a marriage bed my daughter's
twigs and nut-pink flowers are pretty-she likes ice cream at the beach
the wavelets there reflect the sun like a new highway or saltbush at
the heads or a little sandstone mill the database has powered down
first impressions of a deep-sea port missile tests that froth the shore
the loyal fuse starts burning out every sign you thought was sweet
every misread sign of age every sign of misread age every fake précis
every orphaned tone the shallow faces brut mirage-me and my city and
our past; a prisoner can be happy should be happy he said and signed my
release.
__ To this end, Thorpe and Evans direct their polemic most firmly at
Windschuttle's essays in Quadrant from the mid-1990s, arguing that in
those texts, Windschuttle sought to breathe new life into the tropes of
"terra nullius", "the great Australian silence" and the "quiet
continent thesis".
__ 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.
__ Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.
__
at longing and nothing
the flash there in your eyes is a perfect prediction.
__
__ The foundations that are isomorphic within any baptismic Whitlam
era, convocation of the holy family and the hall of German Kings.
__
__
Hobart's demographic profile is often represented as an apple core -
lots of kids and oldies but not much in between.
__ the roband whip of lifetime blinds and rum.
__
__ It certainly has a currency and a legitimating providence.
__
__ How were literary critics and cultural critics supposed to respond
to the ascent of evil to the thorne of the single world system after
1973? Had Satan got free of his infernal jail once again? Had he sprung
from his lake of cold fire, realising as he id in Paradise lost that
there was nothing to stop his attemptinging once and again to wrest
control of our universe from the creator god and the creative good.
__ no filters could disguise this joy.
__
__ In other words, the objects are viewed as emblematic of wider more
objective social values and mores rather than subjective identity
formation.
__
59
we drift, "they'll decide today and we'll have a new government.
__
Barta's work here is informed by a reading of chapter nine of Lemkin's
Axis Rule in Occupied Europe where the latter argues that genocide can
be a two-fold process of dispossession and displacement followed by the
establishment of an incoming colonisation:
Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of
the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern
of the oppressor.
__ for heaven knows i was actually doing quite well.
__
__ The word equal here is used to describe some basic equality of being
or essence, an equality of souls perhaps in the eyes of Janus or our
won jealous monotheistic god.
__ The events whose narrativisation I am examining resound in two
registers.
__ Stuart Stein sums up the ramifications of this effect when he argues
that "the destruction of European Jewry is the paradigmatic instance of
genocide, the analyses of which have significantly shaped our notion of
what should be construed as genocide.
__
__ To be free to fashion the self in the company of others rather than
under the watchful eye of others, free to renew and to be renewed, free
to find support in affinity groups of one's own choosing, achieved
instead of ascribed status: these are virtues of the harbour side
suburb.
__
__ 2000, da capo press
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others -
George orwell , Animal Farm.
__
__ 'Affordances are relationships between features of objects and
abilities of human beings; they are attributable to the intrinsic
features that objects posses by virtue of their make up, and are
specified in relation to an individual' (Coolen 2006:187).
__
__ 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.
__
__ (Judt, Memory Chalet, p.
__
__ Think of the compassionless achievers who yearn only to belittle
others.
__
__
It is still unclear whether every human needs to feel superior to some
other human, to feel satisfuingly unequal.
__
__ 1999.
__
or writing as if it was music, and all that muscle control and all that
thinking.
__ Dialectic of Enlightenment.
__
__ Yellowstone bison migrating to the poisonous river
To wield a commanding voice (WIZARD OF OZ), keeping a little bottle
there in the booth to piss into so the nitrate doesn't catch fire.
__
__ 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.
__
__ I do not know of the worlds I do not know.
__
__ First, a conversation like this can seem pretentious or
self-indulgent - surely only the most illustrious scholars can make
this form of discussion yield valuable, original truths or
interpretations.
__
__ I'd like to say that I wrote my PhD and published from it by ear,
whereas, now, I find myself being forced back to some kind of basic
ignorance, a lack of systematic education that restricts my sight
reading or something like that, all good reasons to never get beyond
the first sentence of an academic paper.
__ Ultimately, however, I believe it is as an instance of Cultural
Studies that this book has its life.
__ It is thus, in this domiciliation, in this house arrest, that
archives take place.
__ sexy legs.
__ i wish this coughing, choking fun would run its course and leave me
high and dry.
__ 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.
__
__ I am most happy when sharing moments with people and whilst I get
pleasure from writing, it is friendships and intimacy I seek most of
all.
__ friable substrate.
__ The additions to the Tasmanian archive made by these writers
acquires a novel character primarily through the contextual placement
of their comments.
__
The explosion of unities into statements and their re-configuration as
discourses performs at least a dual function.
__ To a layman, of course, the difference is too obvious for words.
__ i burled it, through the grip, the surf is what i get.
__ For the latter, place is where a thing is, it is what surrounds a
thing so that in Ed Casey's words "its inner surface and the outer
surface of the thing contained are strictly contiguous.
__ 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.
__
Brothers
42
i don't reflect on heavy
seas that lack a sense of fun.
__
__ What enables objects to hold or retain memory and affect? A reading
of Proust suggests that objects are embedded in relational structures
sustained by the interaction between agents and the objects of agency
(by action and movement).
__ The signifier has become active.
__ 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.
__
__
In this context then, the repudiation of the right of any 'other' to
the rights one claims for oneself is the anti-cosmopolitan gesture par
excellence.
__ In regard to the latter sense, a brief survey is conducted into the
state of play currently prevailing in the fields of Modernity and
Genocide Studies.
__
__ 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.
__
__ (2012) 'Visuality/materiality: introducing a manifesto for practice'
in Rose.
__ As a temporalised assemblage of freestanding essays, the threads of
continuity that hold it together are the contrapuntal problematics of
genocide and modernisation.
__
or groan in pinkish wean, tum dum and diamond, poisson, fig or hat.
__
__ His mind moved backwards, over his ten years of adult life.
__
__ I'd like to ask then where your commitment to writing in plain
English comes from, whether it's a principled stand to do with opening
academic writing into the public realm, whether it's something you were
taught or encouraged to do during your training at Manchester and the
LSE and the within the British system, or whether it's a sign of a
reluctance, possibly a lack of confidence, in playing the knowledge
game in more creative and risky ways?
KJ: Yes let's focus on difference.
__ your mother cried out once beneath her fold-away canopy "my son, the
doctor, is drowning!" .
__
__ For Thomas, Miller's work is too narrowly focussed on material
objects effects on individual identity or collective subjects.
__
Desailly's usage of genocide stands as the first example of one of four
different models for its deployment.
__
__ Free markets have accelerated urban growth and reduced employment in
agricultural production.
__ For other writers, however, the framework for invoking genocide in
the Tasmanian case is to add density to the discussion of other
instances of genocide or of genocide in general.
__
__ I see the stability of the social structure in their confidence but
I wonder if they feel as expendable to me as I do to them.
__
__ What I don't understand is this in-your-faceness.
__ always there and never there.
__
they take me under,
blue and
sinking sun.
__
i struggle in this western wind,
to light my cigarette.
__ i didn't feel sorry.
__
__ (Proust Date)
Conclusions
What then? Here is where the chalet transforms itself from a mnemonic
trigger to a storage device .
__ i trap parole.
__
__ .
__ See Jim Everett, "Aboriginality in Tasmania," 30 September, 2003.
__ 27.
__ While Reynolds is able to find copious "genocidal" articulations
that take Tasmania as their object, he also notes the reluctance of
Australians to examine the presence of genocidal relations in their own
country's past.
__ " Here genocide is conceived as the total annihilation of a racial
grouping.
__
__ I hope society looks hard at my words.
__
__ Now I try to let people be on their own terms - to be ordinary in
most cases - and just enjoy whatever fondness or sympathy or humour is
on offer.
__
__ 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.
__ Essentially, he contends, relations between historians or writers
and the historical scenarios they examine can be mapped out in the same
terms psychoanalysis uses to describe the flows of cathexis,
identification, projection and misrecognition that characterise
patient/therapist encounters in the clinical setting.
__ Places consist of these rude physical attributes; conditions,
natural and cultural, upon which the details we call character slowly
settle and form.
__ As I make clear in this book, the broader world-historical
trajectories of modernisation and the cultural codings that accompany
them have scarred the Tasmanian archive just as indelibly as its
cosmopolitan equivalents.
__ Perhaps we might more precisely describe their operative dimension
as multilateral or omni-directional.
__ 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.
__
__
From the sprawling port and government town where I am writing this, a
village in West Java sounds pretty cosmopolitan but that's probably a
mistaking of the realities of the object with the flavour of the
intercession of observer and observed that would be brought out if I
was to plonk my own 'modern' Western ways of doing things down in the
middle of the Indonesian countryside.
__
__ And I see signifies that I see because I am myself, and I do not see
only with my eyes.
__
__ Pollock, H.
__
__ Chakrabarty (eds), Cosmopolitanism, Duke University Press, Durham
and London, pp.
__ 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.
__
Tasmania is always internally modernising.
__
__ 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.
__
__ What I want to say is that this long disclaimer is necessary to
situate my comments so that opportunity and risk are maximised.
__
__ The offer of recognised equality and co-humanity really only
embodies a weak generosity, it seems to me, in so far, as nothing is
actually given up when the offer of recognition is made.
__
__ Pilgrim's Progress is a proto-theoretic work as well as a medieval
god-text.
__ In its controlled
public manifestation this might be called economic rationality, but
this public face or ego ideal
relies for its coherence and solidity upon a fundamentally imaginary
conception of its own
fullness or plenitude.
__
__ Nobody else can read it right!
because nobody else is quite as self-centred as me.
__ Uncertain as to whether anyone else really cares that much at all,
We conduct our own invigilation of the possibilities offered by that
vague quintessence called Tasmanianness.
__
__ No doubt it's the writerly guilt, a guilt shared by every writer no
matter how commercially or artistically successful he or she is.
__ The novel is social, the author of the novel thinks socially.
__ The temporal ordering of these essays runs a string through them as
if they were beads on a necklace.
__ Its constitution is thus of the order of the hand-me-down, deferring
the quick fix of détournement, but carrying over only a minimal
originality in its unfolding.
__
__ Car buffs who worked at fried chicken restaurants would have just as
much chance as the afore mentioned CEOs to buy an Aston AMrtin and
thereby receive the recongitoin reserved for such a purchase.
__ i burl and wince.
__ For the latter, place or topos is located within the chora, the
cosmological
ether that holds the universe in a particular position, but for
Aristotle, the two differ from each other only in trivial ways.
__ Obliteration of otherness.
__
__ This strategy often works for academics, as it seems to boost their
social status and reverence.
__
__ There's inequality between ations.
__
__ I am no happy worker in the profit producing, research unitised,
establishment institution that crowns our one tree hill.
__
If the dominant connotation of the signifier "archive" for this kind of
historical endeavour is a resoundingly singular "truth", the existence
of a multiplicity of archives reminds us that the referent to which the
signifier is orientated remains stubbornly plural.
__
46 i'll
hold it close and to my lips
to kiss it cold and sibling while
you labour through the legend
mud flats, bubbled, grey and greasy
like a boarder's cake.
__ 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.
__ Dirk Moses, "Rendering the Past Less Unpalatable,".
__ but skin is skewed, aslant, its angle gives us seasons.
__ But a rider is attached to this rebuff that leaves a gap for a
problematically material object like the Tasmanian archive.
__ Instead he returns to the UN definition and performs an impressive
intellectual coup de grace by demonstrating the means by which the
destruction of the Aboriginal peoples as an objective and inherent
corollary of the logic of colonisation became subjectively located
within the consciousness of the colonial agents themselves, producing a
situation where specific genocidal intention of the kind described in
the UN definition can be adduced.
__
Alan Wood is arguably the most high-profile Australian defender of
neo-classical economic reforms and the free trade avatar to which they
are directed.
__ In Australia, Michael Pusey describes this shift in the title of his
book, Economic Rationalism in Canberra: A Nation-Building State Changes
its Mind.
__
__ , Moby Dick, Dean and Son, London.
__ Churchill departs from the course taken by Barta, however, in
providing an overarching genealogy of the term, which, like the work of
Moses, focuses on intention.
__
69 plato is my transference.
__ Like a "minor literature", a minor place has both political and
subversive potential: "Create the opposite dream: know how to create a
becoming-minor.
__
__ So subjectivity is always emplaced in material world.
__
__ In Search of Lost Time (date) Vol 5 p.
__ The intellectual tradition that informs our thinking about modernity
only makes room for Tasmania in its implication that the cognitive and
social transformations that we normally identify as modern have had an
impact here.
__ Most of the incidents that feature at the heart of the genocide
debate - the Risdon Massacre, the Black Line, the Roving Parties, the
random atrocities - were documented by historians of the 19th century
and in most cases, the most important primary source providing us with
access into those conflictual pasts remains the seventeen volumes of
reports compiled by Governor Arthur in 1830 and filed as the Colonial
Secretary's Office Papers in the Tasmanian Archives.
__
__
One of the major lines of inquiry I develop in this chapter concerns
the distinction between the harbour side suburb and the township.
__
__ " Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action.
__
__ Superiority here has something to do with taste, with education,
with intellectual and manual capabilities.
__
__ To quote Hegel is thought to be good.
__
__ 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.
__ " Here Barta refers briefly to the Tasmanian case in proposing that
white Australia exists in a relation of genocide to the Aboriginal
population.
__
__ (eds) Visuality/Materiality: Images, Objects and Practices,
Aldershot: Ashgate Press 171-190.
__
__
Yet, the ways we understand material objects in the home has been
subject to scrutiny by some influential scholars.
__
__ Either that or they just aren't impressed by the particular skill
that the younger man possesses.
__
__ He could expect to pass the farm and the responsibilities eventually
to one of his nephews.
__ .
__ novels clasped in hot mix hands, words carved truth in cattle yards,
the dusty verse of centaur's lung.
__ Financial Crises: Understanding the Post-War U.
__ But,
while they have made rich use of war, revolution, and poverty, they
have been singularly neglectful of
financial panics.
__ Again, these rules are not absolute, so that in the second part,
"Van Diemonian Time", the genocide essay becomes the locus of an
intermingled discussion of the way certain thematics we associate with
modernity and modernisation form a nexus with the baleful logic of
genocide when the forces of colonisation clash with an indigenous
civilisation.
__
i see it now, from out the front.
__
__ Which asks us of course about the status of narcissistic fantasies
submitted under a recognised title like research fellow which should
surely be cut down by some kind of scythe before even the sheriffs of
peer review mount their side-saddle stallions.
__ By describing the decimation and the displacement of the Aboriginal
Tasmanians as a genocide, Desailly draws down on that power of horror
and builds a bridge between the two historical events that elides the
irreducible difference at their core.
__
__
The centre of all his minds was always the vaulted dining room where he
enjoyed long Georgian feasts with his henchmen, this one at Sochi.
__
__ 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.
__ the killer's lips are wet with spit.
__ 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.
__ Aside from the forced comparison with other genocidal events that is
enacted through the mobilisation of this volatile signifier it is
difficult to see the value of re-reading a set of historical events
that is already recognised as horrific in terms of an alternative
meta-theoretical category that only re-iterates that power of horror.
__
__ Finishing a half decent paragraph is still a great thrill for me.
__
__ (1999) 'Lowering the drawbridge: a case study of analogy and
metaphor in the social construction of home-ownership', Urban Studies
36 (10): 1705-1722.
__ Under the heading of Van Diemonian time, I conduct a reading of
Richard Flanagan's recent novel, Gould's Book of Fish, which takes the
author's representation of the modernisation of the Sarah Island penal
colony on Tasmania's West Coast as a redirection of hope for Tasmanian
modernity as a whole.
__
__
I would like to claim that if this characterisation of openness to the
other conduces to the truth in Tasmania it will also apply elsewhere,
in Mexico City say, or Brazzaville.
__
__ .
__
__ We are both persona non grata as far as the hyperdriven
international academic circuit is concerned, at least as it's measured
by big book contracts with Chicago and Polity and Cambridge, teaching
posts at Stanford or the Sorbonne or even Sydney or Melbourne and
influential positions on national funding boards or professional
associations.
__
__ Anyway, I still like the system thinking of people like Arrighi,
Habermas, Lacan and so on, but I will never try to put together an
integrated theory myself.
__ soggy fool.
__ Additionally, there are certain institutional sites and privileged
subject positions that act as loci for the dissemination of such a
discourse.
__ This thesis is an attempt at a poetics of culture cast in terms that
draw on Stephen Greenblatt's framing of the project.
__
__ So another question- what does friendship mean for you?
Well like Derrida says quoting Aristotle.
__ the whole time you were there.
__ The modernity that Habermas describes in The Philosophical Discourse
of Modernity: Twelve Lectures as an "unfinished project" is more a
philosophical category than a "structure of feeling" or a
socio-cultural horizon, but even he argues that modernisation of the
Weberian kind - the arrival and consolidation of instrumental reason,
specialisation and differentiation, bureaucratisation - remains a
universal topos in so far as it "disassociates modernity from its
modern European origins and stylizes it into a spatio-temporally
neutral model for processes of social development in general.
__
and history yearns to choke our balls.
__
In this chapter, I wish to counter Kansteiner's claim by demonstrating
that metaphor continues to occupy a central position within the
multi-layered discursive field that gathers the Holocaust together with
other instances of historical genocide.
__ flake fed daily.
__ perhaps i do not empathise.
__ 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.
__
The temporalisation of the book is the first order of its organisation,
but there is a second order that is equally important.
__ In
each case very different types of causal processes are at play and the
effects which follow in
the wake of the various 'causa prima' take on, like the memory of the
primal scene, multi form
even protean appearance.
__
__ 7.
__ In light of this, my professed intention to trace the unfolding of a
logic in the Tasmanian archive is exposed as disingenuous because such
a logic conceived in those terms did not leave its traces there.
__ Its position within the
structure of the conscious and unconscious realms of the psyche, or
more precisely its
structuring role therein also calls out to us in the siren song of
allegory.
__
__ The texts from which 'my' harbour side suburb are pieced together
mobilise the scopic regimes of both literature and film and have a
social life that is enduring.
__
__ The openness to difference that we rehearse so frequently often
conceals a wounded desire to write-off the value/difference of the
other, and just forget about everything they ever said or did.
__
__
My answer was that the neocons are back because Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Putin never went away.
__ It is important to remember, however, that this newness was invested
with a special aura because it was seen as a world-historical newness,
a newness-for-mankind.
__ Unless, of course, this falling apart takes place in the ear of the
reader.
__ the discontinued email series.
__ In the case of both modernity and genocide, the actual occurrence of
the events concerned was not coded in terms of the two signifiers being
examined.
__
__ Now I would now like to ask you a question.
__ the language of dendrites and axons and receptors is friendly and
bright.
__ It is a thread in a thickly interwoven cloth.
__ "
Desailly's interpolation of genocide into the Tasmanian archive stands
as a fairly innocuous initiation of a new way of imagining a place.
__ no wonder.
__ When he runs into Punch, Robinson is on his way to meet Governor
Arthur in Launceston and has with him a number of Aboriginal companions
including the infamous female chief, Walyer.
__ 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.
Notes Tom Conley, The Self Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early
Modern France (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), p. 7.
Quoted in Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1972), p. 612. The archaeologist Rhys Jones writes,
"The Tasmanians came from the Australian mainland across a landbridge
during late glacial times and were isolated by post glacial rising sea.
On the island, adaptations had to be made to new and changing
environmental situations, but there was also a fundamental continuity
of this cultural tradition right through to the time of the arrival of
Europeans." See Rhys Jones, Rocky Cape and the Problem of the
Tasmanians (PhD Thesis: Sydney University, 1971), p. 627. See also Ken
Collins, South-West Tasmania (Hobart: Heritage Books, 1990); Sandra
Bowdler, "The Last Typologist: Rhys Jones and the Problem of the
Archaeologists," in Atholl Anderson, Ian Lilley and Sue O'Connor, eds.,
Histories of Old Ages: Essays in Honour of Rhys Jones (Canberra:
Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2001),
pp. 35-44. For accounts of Tasman's voyage see James Backhouse Walker,
Abel Janszoon Tasman: His Life and Voyages (Hobart: Govt Printer,
1896); Abel Janszoon Tasman, The Discovery of Tasmania: Journal
Extracts From the Expeditions of Abel Janszoon Tasman and Marion Du
Fresne 1642 and 1772 (Hobart: St David's Park Publishing, 1992); Andrew
Sharp, The Voyages of Abel Janszoon Tasman (London: Clarendon Press,
1968). Other pre-invasion European visitors to Tasmania included Du
Fresne in 1772, Furneaux in 1773, Cook in 1777, Bligh in 1788 and 1792,
Cox in 1789, D'Entrecasteaux in 1793, Bass and Flinders in 1798-9,
Baudin in 1802. See N. J. B. Plomley, The Baudin Expedition and the
Tasmanian Aborigines 1802 (Hobart: Blubberhead Press, 1983). Although
claims to the number of deaths that occurred vary, the "Risdon
Massacre" took place at Bowen's settlement on the 3rd of May 1804. In
Fate of a Free People (Ringwood: Penguin Books, 1995), Henry Reynolds
argues that the Aboriginal resistance to white invasion was much more
than a set of disorganised instances of retributive violence, but I am
unwilling to impute a motive of land defence that was the product of
military planning in any way resembling modern models. For a
fascinating account of the cultural politics of dependence and maturity
in the case of Tasmania see Anthony Trollope, Australia and New
Zealand, vol. 2 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1873), pp. 1-76. This
short-lived economic boom features in my own family history through my
wife's maternal grandmother whose grandfather was a wealthy tin miner
in the north-east of the state in the middle-to-late-19th century. See
John Reynolds, Launceston: History of an Australian City (South
Melbourne: Macmillan of Australia [for] Adult Education Board,
Tasmania, 1969); Geoffrey Blainey, The Peaks of Lyell, 5th ed. (Hobart:
St. David's Park Publishing, 1993). See John Ralston Saul, The
Unconscious Civilisation (Ringwood: Penguin, 1997), for an insightful
discussion of the thesis that the global economy has been in recession
since 1973. In the 2002 state elections, the Greens actually engineered
a remarkable recovery, gaining four seats in the House of Assembly,
only two less than the official opposition, the Liberal Party.
Tasmania, of course, is also touched by the "ten plagues" of the
contemporary epoch described by Derrida in Spectres of Marx: The State
of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International, translated
by Peggy Kamuf (New York: Routledge, 1994), pp. 81-3. This resurgence
in economic fortunes, population increase and real estate prices
prompted then Premier Jim Bacon to declare in his National Press Club
of Australia Address in the week of Monday the 3rd of March, 2003, that
a "new Tasmania" was emerging from the veil of despondency that had for
so long clouded its future. For a more sceptical view of the current
state of the state see Peter Hay's comments in Wayne Crawford, "Bacon
Regime Rapped in Performance Review," The Saturday Mercury, (3 May
2003), pp. 28-9. The most high-profile embodiment of this attempt to
bridge the gap between community and government and to overcome the
traditional parochialism that has set the South, the North and the
North-West against one another is the Tasmania Together project.
Tasmanian Together describes itself as:
a pioneering project that allows the people of Tasmania to have a say
in their long-term social, economic and environmental future. […]
Tasmania Together has set a vision for the state based on the wishes of
the people. It also includes 24 goals and 212 benchmarks that were of
most concern to the people during more than two-and-a-half years of
community consultation. Overwhelmingly, Tasmanians want to live in
safe, clean communities, with jobs and prosperity for everyone, and
they want the world to be aware of our skills in areas such as the
arts, education and technology. Now, with the benefit of a
community-driven vision, we can build the kind of future our people
want and deserve, aimed at ensuring our children inherit a fairer,
cleaner, safer and more prosperous Tasmania. 5 November, 2003. Although it must be said that
this valuation of nature tends to take very different forms depending
on how one prioritises the strenuous and vexed demands of conservation
and industry. See Gerard Castles, "The Choice," Island, 87 (Spring
2001), pp. 108-15. Substantial foreign investment has been made in
recent years by the North Carolina based utilities company Duke Energy,
the British utilities company National Grid and the Danish Engineering
firm Vestas. As Donald Horne writes, "Mainlanders think little about
Tasmania and foreigners want to know who owns it." The Lucky Country:
Australia in the Sixties (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964), p. 58. The
Tasmanian archive can also be understood as a variation on the kind of
social or cultural imaginary that Cornelius Castoriadis describes in
The Imaginary Institution of Society, translated by Kathleen Blamey
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989). The archive differs from an imaginary,
however, in terms of its specific function within the processes of
place-formation and in its problematically material character. The
archive is a material entity that exists extra-subjectively but is
activated or accessed by human subjects in the course of everyday
practices of being-in-the-world. The imaginary, on the other hand, has
no ontology external to the subjectivities of its constituents.
Obviously Castoriadis's ur-text has been mediated and moderated through
the secondary application and discussion carried out by other scholars
and in that regard, I lean on Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar. In his "Toward
New Imaginaries," Public Culture,14.1 (2002), Gaonkar mobilises a
useful and succinct definition of the social imaginary that is worth
repeating here. To paraphrase very minimally, he defines it as "an
enabling but not fully explicable symbolic matrix within which a people
imagine and act as world-making collective agents", p. 1. Any
post-post-structuralist use of this concept also bears the mark of
Lacan's conception of the imaginary with all its implications of
misrecognition and specularity, I obviously cannot restrict the reader
from following the cues that take my text to Lacan's so I prefer to
play a lay-down misère and let the signifier resonate in the field of
the other in whatever key it may take. Anthony Wilden's application of
the Lacanian imaginary to the question of Canadian national and
self-identity has also informed the character of my deployment of this
rich term. See Anthony Wilden, "The Canadian Question, Why?,"
Cine-Tracts, 2.2 (Spring 1979), pp. 1-27. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight
of the Idols, and, The Anti-Christ, translated by R. J. Hollingdale
(London: Penguin, 1990), p. 45. Marcus Clarke describes the bi-polar
character of the Tasmanian environment in For the Term of His Natural
Life (Melbourne: Hallcraft, 1949):
About a hundred and seventy miles to the south of this millrace [Port
Philip Bay on the Australian south coast] lies Van Diemen's Land,
fertile fair and rich, rained upon by the genial showers which pour
down upon the sheltered valleys their fertilizing streams. The cool
south breeze ripples gently the blue waters of the Derwent and fans the
curtains of the open windows of the city which nestles in the broad
shadow of Mount Wellington. But on the western coast, from the steeple
rocks of Cape Grim to the scrub encircled barrenness of Sandy Cape and
the frowning entrance to Macquarie Harbour, the nature of the country
entirely changes. The air is chill and moist, the soil prolific only in
prickly undergrowth and noxious weeds, while foetid exhalations from
swamp and fen cling close to the humid spongy ground. p. 84-5.
See also Paul Collins, Hell's Gates: The Terrible Journies of Alexander
Pearce, Van Diemen's Land Cannibal (South Yarra: Hardie Grant Books,
2002) and Dan Sprod, Alexander Pearce of Macquarie Harbour: Convict,
Bushranger, Cannibal (Hobart: Cat and Fiddle Press, 1977) for readings
of the South West wilderness as a collaborator in human brutality.
Notes See Hans Mommsen, Der NationalSozialismus und die Deutsche
Gesellschaft (Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1991); Yehuda Bauer, A History of the
Holocaust (Watts: Danbury, 1982); Saul Friedlander, Memory, History and
the Extermination of the Jews of Europe (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1998). Wulf Kansteiner, "The Rise and Fall of
Metaphor: German Historians and the Uniqueness of the Holocaust," in
Alan Rosenbaum, ed., Is the Holocaust Unique?: Perspectives on
Comparative Genocide (Boulder: Westview, 2001), p. 238. For additional
examples of the deployment of the term "Final Solution" in writing
about the Tasmanian genocide see Ryan, The Aboriginal Tasmanians. N. J.
B. Plomley, ed., Jorgen Jorgensen and the Aborigines of Van Diemen's
Land (Hobart: Blubberhead Press, 1991); Moses, "An Antipodean Genocide:
The Origins of the Genocidal Moment in the Colonization of Australia,";
Brantlinger, "'Dying Races': Rationalizing Genocide in the Nineteenth
Century,"; Diamond, "In Black and White,". Jan Morris, "The Final
Solution Down Under," in Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn, eds., The
History and Sociology of Genocide, pp. 205-22. N.J.B Plomley, Jorgen
Jorgenson and the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land: being a
reconstruction of his 'lost' book on their customs and habits, and on
his role in the Roving Parties and the Black Line (Hobart: Blubber Head
Press: 1991), p. 17. Moses, "An antipodean genocide? The origins of the
genocidal moment in the colonization of Australia," p. 91. Brantlinger,
"'Dying races': rationalizing genocide in the nineteenth century," p.
49. Ryan, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, p. 2 Palmer, Colonial Genocide, p.
26. Steven Katz, The Holocaust in Historical Context Vol 1: Mass Death
Before the Modern Age (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 33;
Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth
and Memory (New York: Free Press, 1993), pp. 20, 74. See Ward
Churchill, A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the
Americas 1492 to the Present (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997);
David E. Stannard, "Uniqueness as Denial: The Politics of Genocide
Scholarship," in Alan Rosenbaum, ed., Is the Holocaust Unique?, 2nd
edition (Boulder: Westview Press, 2001), pp. 245-90; Peter Novick, The
Holocaust in American Life (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1999); Norman
Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of
Jewish Suffering (London: Verso, 2000). Juliet Mitchell, Psychoanalysis
and Feminism (New York: Pantheon Books, 1974). Evans and Thorpe,
"Indigenocide and the Massacre of Aboriginal History,", p. 33. For
additional work on genocide in Australia see Barta, "Relations of
Genocide: Land and Lives in the Colonization of Australia,"; "After the
Holocaust: Consciousness of Genocide in Australia,"; Tatz, Genocide in
Australia; Palmer, Colonial Genocide; "Colonial and Modern Genocide:
Explanations and Categories,"; Tom Nairn, "Democracy and Genocide,"
Arena, 16 (2000-2001), pp. 75-84; Ian Hernon, The Savage Empire:
Forgotten Wars of the 19th Century (Glouchester: Sutton 2000); Smith,
The Spectre of Truganini: 1980 Boyer Lectures; Lindqvist, Exterminate
all the Brutes; Mark Cocker, Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold: Europe's
Conflict with Native People (London: Jonathon Cape, 1998); Desailly,
The Mechanics of Genocide: Colonial Policies and Attitudes Towards the
Tasmanian Aborigines, 1824-1836; Mazian, Why Genocide?; Attwood and
Foster, eds., Frontier Conflict; Elder, Blood on the Wattle; Paul R.
Bartrop, "The Holocaust, the Aborigines, and the Bureaucracy of
Destruction: An Australian Dimension of Genocide," Journal of Genocide
Research, 3.1 (2001), pp. 75-87; Docker and Curthoys, eds., Aboriginal
History, 25 (2001); Windschuttle, The Fabrication of Aboriginal
History, Manne, ed., Whitewash; Madley, "Patterns of Frontier Genocide
1803-1910: The Aboriginal Tasmanians, the Yuki of California and the
Herero of Namibia,"; Sousa, "They Will Be Hunted Down like Wild Beasts
and Destroyed,". Thorpe and Evans, "Massacre of Aboriginal History,",
p. 21. See Keith Windschuttle, "The Myths of Frontier Massacres in
Australian History: Part 1: The Invention of Massacre Stories,"
Quadrant, 44.10 (October 2000), pp. 8-21; "The Myths of Frontier
Massacres in Australian History: Part 2: The Fabrication of the
Aboriginal Death Toll," Quadrant, 44.11 (November 2000), pp. 17-24;
"The Myths of Frontier Massacres in Australian History: Part 3:
Massacre Stories and the Policy of Separatism," Quadrant, 44.12
(December 2000), pp. 6-20.
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