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The political form of postmodernism, if there ever is any, will have as its vocation the invention and projection of a global cognitive mapping, on a social as well as a spatial scale. —Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism: Or, the Logic of Late Capitalism   Force majeure On the morning of 18 February 2021 Australia awoke to find itself at war. While the nation slept, powerful digital saboteurs cut the cords that bind the nation together, severing connections to its most popular and most important sources of factual information. The majors—Seven West, Nine–Fairfax, News and the ABC—all suddenly went dark. Fortuitously, radio […]

Ten Australians were killed on 11 September 2001 when two hijacked Boeing 767 aircraft were flown into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan and a third plane, a Boeing 757, crashed into the western side of the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda group he led took sole responsibility for the attacks immediately thereafter. Since then, Australia has maintained a continuous military presence in Afghanistan and then in Iraq, countries that soon became the scapegoats for attacks claimed by bin Laden’s affiliation of non-state actors. Of the 19 hijackers who died alongside their victims on 9/11, […]

What does the use of royal commissions tell us about how our existing governmental structures are working? The immediate answer may be that it shows that those structures—legislative, executive or judicial—are not working as they should. If they were, why would we want or need so many royal commissions? But to answer the question at any deeper level requires some unpacking of the issues. To do that, I need to begin with some basic and obvious observations. First, the legislative and the executive branches of government make all sorts of inquiries and gather all sorts of information without appointing a […]

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It is strong but with soft acoustic edges, a voice with the breath of a creature grown in high tree hollows.

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