Mel Gregg has a post on her blog about how no one has come forward wanting to host the annual CSAA conference. In the comments she writes this zinger: But the consistency with which the association has backed away from engaging in activism, on the very basis of its inclusiveness, is perhaps the impasse that […]
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Fodder Out of the Opportunities
This is another older post draft that I don’t think I’ll have time to finish, so up it goes… “Obviously, we’ve got to deal with defensiveness about people’s heritage. Many white Australians, of conservative and traditional bearing, are defensive. Many ordinary Australians are defensive about their own heritage, and if we continue to cast a […]
Canberras
Within the town there is always another town. — Gilles Deleuze Capital City Canberra Canberra is the capital city of the Australian Capital Territory and of Australia. It is the nation’s capital. The explicit monumentality of monuments is obvious but the architecture of Canberra also exhibits a kind of monumental interaction. The buildings and structures […]
CSAA Conference Blogging
So I gave my paper this morning and I think it went well. I feel like I know my stuff 😉 Went out last night and was reasonably responsible, only singing one song at kareoke and not drinking too much. I even went to the gym yesterday morning before the conference started. It is more […]
prepared
Is it wrong to be up late downloading baile funk for the car trip to Canberra? 🙂 I just fitted a 12″ sub… youtube video is Bonde Do Role and their track “Vitiligo”. The ACDC “You Shook Me All Night Long” sample with Tone Loc “Wild Thing” bass line sounds a little bit wrong 😉 […]