Counterpunch, May 8-10
Got another article up at Counterpunch.org, written in the aftermath of the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran by the Indonesian government: Drug Trafficking and the Politics of Vengeance.
‘The Predicament of Man’ – Arthur Koestler
Not a bad essay this one. THE PREDICAMENT OF MAN By Arthur Koestler Excerpted from his book The Ghost in the Machine. All our Righteousness are as filthy rags. – ISAIAH lXIV The postulated polarity of integrative versus self-assertive potentials in biological and social systems is fundamental to the present theory. It follows logically from…
Latest toy
Still needs some grip but sure is fun to roll around on.
Counterpunch
Got a new article up on Counterpunch, Collapse: A Foregone Conclusion. Read it here: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/27/collapse-a-foregone-conclusion/
The Continuing Adventures of Ableton Loop #1
It’s too hot to read, write, or do anything, so I fired up Ableton.
Deakin HDR Summer School poster
Been working on this for the last 4-6 weeks. Every image and feature was a separate Photoshop layer, which made the Mac shit itself in new and unexpected ways on more than one occasion. Stood up to an A0 image being worked on at 300dpi by a mental case like yours truly in the end…
Summary: Terrorism and the State: A Critique of Domination Through Fear
William Purdue conducts a survey of terrorism in a variety of forms, though differing from mainstream studies of terrorism insofar as, rather than focusing on terrorism from below, he focuses on terrorism from above, on official state terrorism. In so doing he argues that official state terrorism is far more pervasive and destructive than the…
How Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a Great Metaphor for the US Response to 9/11, Amongst Other Things
The 2014 remake of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a great movie. It also features a sequence which, from the point of view of the history of international relations, provides a surprisingly accurate metaphor for the use of moral panics as instruments of statecraft. In this particular sequence we see two processes…
Falasteen Habibti
Cover design for David Rovics’s new CD ‘Falaseen Habibti’ (‘I Love Palestine’).
15 Seconds of Fame
My tweet made it onto Q&A the other month. Funny thing was I wasn’t really watching; had flipped over on the ad break.