Colonial Hyperbole, with gaps
There are some crimes that are longer-term than others… As I am finding from spending part of the morning exploring archival images, such as this one. A ‘British propaganda poster from the Second World...
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Đồng Tháp poses the urgent questions for today.
Juxtaposing decayed US v Soviet war crap or a flower that blooms in slime. a Huey and a MIG and sundry other remnants from the pond in the memorial park for Nguyen Sinh Sac (Bac Ho’s father)
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Netaji aggregator post
I do not want to attract new madness, the old madness does well enough. Here, a summary of various items of fun fact* where *I use the term in the sense of fake news facts*: Much respect to Netaji, I...
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We are probably all black centipedes at heart
Dream note: I have to arrange my own boat, a massive crustacean-covered barge rowed with huge crab/octopus like mechanical oars and a front that folds over with a huge splash. A group of older learned...
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Tim Page
Fighting the lurgie seemed the right time to read Tim Page’s book on train trips in Vietnam 20 years after his war photo stint – the Dennis Hopper character in the Coppola film “Apocalypse Now” was...
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Oct 22 1965 Sydney arrests
The report on this 1965 anti-war protest is marginally better than most current press release churnalism, of course it favours the Police and the future PM McMahon (who eventually presides over troop...
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Pawn or War Crime? – you choose who gets voted off the island (two votes...
Secret weapons sales (not so secret) and fancy dress panto season – really beyond the pale (white supremacy evil tricksters all). Justification here:...
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Avatar 2 indulgences
Avatar 2 seems like its channeling every Hollywood Vietnam War fantasy ever – what is up with that? Western cowboy military in the delta and includes an apocalypse now poster tribute and all – Scully...
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History and Obstinacy. Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt.
“In a letter to Albert Einstein in 1939, Sigmund Freud wrote that no moral code can help prevent war. (Often, such codes themselves bring about wars.) Those of us who are against war, Freud continues,...
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Two (Satyajit Ray 1963) and Amar Lenin (Ritwik Ghatak 1970) [for ease of access]
Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209434 and This is it.
View ArticleIndigenous Peoples’ Un-Freedoms
“Indigenous Peoples’ Un-Freedoms and Our Academic Freedom A Call for Solidarity” Not usually a petition signer, but in this case there is informative text and urgent reasons…. “We, the undersigned,...
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50 years since the Australia army got out of Vietnam (though the rhetoric is...
“On Vietnam Veterans’ Day, 18 August 2023, a national commemorative service will be held in Canberra to recognise the 50th anniversary of the end of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War.” So,...
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Nietzsche’s Bataille
‘On 21 January 1936, a prospectus presenting the Cahiers de Contre-Attaque was published; this leaflet announced the forthcoming issue of a Cahier devoted to Nietzsche with the following text:‘ “It...
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Siraj // Begam Lutf-un-nisã
there are many gems to be found in the life and death of Siraj. The Gardens by his tomb are most peaceful, and here I read and honoured the sharp wit of the power behind the throne.
View ArticleElemental structures of memory: Marston Mats in Vietnam and beyond – preprint
This is a postprint of the article – The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2024, at...
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More marsten mats
Just a few of a growing collection to accompany the article here – these are the ones that did not fit in the article in Inter Asia Cultural Studies – OR, for which I did not manage/afford to get the...
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Cairns – Moratorium
Some video of the 1970 Moratorium in Melbourne . This starts with JIm Cairns setting out some rules of engagement for when the crowd reaches the intersection opposite the state parliament. Jim used to...
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