Imagined communities can’t conquer invisible enemies
Trump’s insistence that a martial response is required reflects an inability to think about collective action outside the realm of war and the nation state.
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Our not so distant past
The dead-carts have been replaced by hearses and the bodies are burnt rather than buried, but this scenes are not altogether dissimilar to those depicted by Daniel Defoe in A Journal of a Plague Year.
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Coronavirus and Bare Life
The paradox that seems to elude Agamben is that spatially isolating oneself is a collective response to the crisis.
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Dawkins delusion: the legacy of New Atheism
Richard Dawkins and the New Atheists preach fideism dressed up as rationalism.
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Reds Under The Bed: A Review Of Peter Hartcher’s Quarterly Essay
‘Red Flag’ repeats many of the West’s favourite clichés about China and refuses to hold a mirror up to Australian policy-making. It fails to understand China’s rise and misrepresents the nature of power and empire.
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Hypocrisy and hysteria over Chinese influence
The recent shift in the discourse about Chinese-Australians and representations of them as Communist Party stooges is potentially more dangerous than previous orientalist caricatures.
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