Saturday, February 13, 2021
Thursday, January 07, 2021
Chaffing
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Words
Sam Russell from Lindin thinks that it is wrong for the Maori Party's co-leader to use the word 'Holocaust' in the context of New Zealand history. I've disagreed in this twitter thread.
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Tomorrow
It was a pleasure to speak at the launch of MK Joseph's long-lost anti-fascist novel Tomorrow the World last weekend. Jack Ross has written about the launch on his blog. Ross has for years been trying to bring Joseph's science fiction to the attention of his fellow academics.
Thursday, November 05, 2020
Dark enlightenment
She's probably got bigger things to worry about right now, but I've queried the suddenly notorious Olivia Pierson's understanding of the Enlightenment in this twitter thread.
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Weka Pass
Last week I tramped to Weka Pass Cave, where people made art with charcoal and ochre five hundred or more years ago. Now I wonder: was that iron fence by the cave's limestone overhang intended to keep humans out, or to keep the painted cryptids - writhing eel-birds, lizard-dogs, dancing insect-men - in? When I close my eyes creatures surface, through the blackness.
Monday, October 05, 2020
Warriors in wood
I've written about the syncretic and subversive sculpture of Whare Joseph Thompson for EyeContact.