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‘The Political Economy of Scapegoating’: New article by yours truly in the print version of Counterpunch. https://www.academia.edu/17643705/The_Political_Economy_of_Scapegoating
Book review: Global Islamophobia
Have written a book review of George Morgan & Scott Poynting, eds, Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West for the upcoming edition of the International Journal for…
Witches, terrorists and the ABC
Originally published in Overland. ‘Abbott Completely Loses The Plot, Orders “Urgent” Government Inquiry Into The ABC’ was the headline of a recent article on Pedestrian.tv. This followed a Q&A, in…
‘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. –…
Hockey’s entitlement issues
Originally publised in Overland. It is almost a year to the day since Joe Hockey introduced the Australian public to his ‘lifters not leaners’ approach to economic and social affairs,…
Collapse: A Foregone Conclusion
Originally published on Counterpunch. Since 1971, the value of the US dollar, and with it the corporeal integrity of the US economy, has been tied to what we know today…
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…
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…
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…