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Four Short Films Made With Love: 'Nothing As It Seems', David Blackall

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Screened for the duration of November, 2013, at the Drawing Room - Art Gallery,

33 Roslyn Street, Sydney, Australia

2011 0421 162 447

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NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS – David Blackall A film made from 4 short stories on love

1] It's all been blackened out, but never mind

2] Karaoke Jane

3] The War Diaries of Stephen Dupont

4] The late David Larwill - ROAR painter - speaking at Newcastle City Gallery 2002.

Complicating The Complex: China's Adiz, Lowell Bautista, Julio Amador Iii

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In a move that further escalated tension in the region, China’s announcement of an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea, elicited strong protests from the United States, Japan, and South Korea. The Chinese ADIZ includes airspace over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands claimed by both China and Japan and requires that aircraft entering its ADIZ must report flight information to Chinese authorities, otherwise, “China’s armed forces will adopt defensive emergency measures to respond to aircraft that do not cooperate in the identification or refuse to follow the instructions.” These measures are clearly provocative, contrary to international practice, and …

Pre-Socratic Media Theory, Brogan S. Bunt

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Drawing inspiration from Siegfried Zielinski’s ground-breaking study of media archaeology, Deep Time of the Media, this paper explores the potential for pre-Socratic philosophy to provide a model for alternative conceptions of mediation within contemporary media art. It argues that pre-Socratic philosophy develops notions of mediation that extend beyond the contemporary focus on technical media. In their exploration of fundamental dynamic principles within nature and in their sensitivity to the uncertain relation between truth, appearance and finite human understanding, they suggest diverse conceptions of mediation that have continuing critical and creative relevance.

Reflections On 'Wang's Paradox', John A. Burgess

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In this paper, I shall try to spell out what I take the principal general morals of Michael Dummett's 'Wang's Paradox' to be, not as Dummett himself saw them, but as I see them several decades later. I draw two main conclusions. (C1): Meaning should not be represented as propositional knowledge capable of being acquired through book learning alone. Some aspects of meaning consist of items of practical knowledge that resist representation as theoretical knowledge. (C2): Vagueness cannot be modelled in a semantic individualist framework.

Natural Selection Among The Ruins, Su Ballard

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At about the same time that the railways were snaking their way across the major continents of the earth, animals and plants were finding themselves increasingly enclosed. Exponential increases in industrialization had facilitated shifts in scale and experience. For the human, the movement was from the local to the national, for the animal, it was from the farm to the factory, for the plants it was the process of becoming fuel for the massive belching machines inhabiting the landscape in their place.

‘Labour History And Its Political Role – A New Landscape’, Terence H. Irving

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As I was thinking about what to say today I read an article on Manning Clark and found something that made me pause. It was a description of our venerable journal, Labour History, but characterizing it in terms that none of us would use, at least not in public. Instead of describing our field, our sources or our methods, our long list of illustrious contributors, it said that Labour History was the journal of Australia’s left-wing historians.

Well, this was in Wikipedia – but nonetheless it struck me that, yes, this is a truth I am prepared to accept. I’m …

Ethnic Food: The Other In Ourselves, Paula Arvela

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Food is a powerful cultural signifier. It can connote inclusiveness, belonging, attachment and be a symbolic expression of social binding. Similarly, food can signify exclusiveness, generate stereotypes and feelings of revulsion and disgust which demarcate boundaries between the us and the other. As Marcel Proust’s teasoaked sweet Madeleine illustrates, food can produce good memories as much as recall painful experiences. Food is as much a nutritional and physiological requirement as it is cultural, symbolic and meaningful. Multi-ethnic societies praise their food diversity and flag it as a marker of inclusiveness. Australian cuisine is supposed to be a representation of cultural …

Japan's Biopolitical Crisis: Care Provision In A Transnational Frame, Vera Mackie

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In this article I consider recent policies on care provision in Japan, including the employment of immigrant workers. My discussion is framed by Michel Foucault's concepts of ‘biopower’ and ‘biopolitics’: a mode of governmentality focused on the management of populations. In the current age of economic globalization, however, biopolitics also crosses national boundaries. Raewyn Connell has described a ‘global gender order’ whereby gender relations are shaped by power structures which transcend the level of the nation-state. This involves the connections between different local gender orders and gender orders which transcend the scale of the nation-state. The migration of care workers …

The Human Fax Machine Experiment, Brogan Bunt, Lucas Ihlein

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The Human Fax Machine draws together two sets of codes – the formality of machine instructions and the much looser codes of human group interaction. As an introduction to the computational mind-set, participants are set the task of devising some means of communicating an image from one group of people to another with simple sound signals. They may have only a wooden rattle, a container of shells or two forks that they can clang together, but they must somehow transmit the image across a small visual barrier to other members of their group so that the latter can reproduce it …

An Introduction To "The Boston Trio": Sylvia Plath With Robert Lowell And Anne Sexton, Sarah-Jane Burton

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In an interview with A. Alvarez for The Observer in 1963, the poet Robert Lowell asserted, "Inspiration's such a tricky word…we all know poetry isn't a craft that you can just turn on and off. It has to strike fire somewhere" (76). The question of the location of this elusive "somewhere" – this inspirational moment in the trajectory of Sylvia Plath's career is one of the main concerns of this paper. This pivotal moment and literary shift is often cited as occurring late in Plath's life, with motherhood and the break-up of her marriage to Ted Hughes providing the fuel …

Looking For Serge Gainsbourg, Catherine Cole

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Lying

on one of the graves

you kiss

the day-moon

Carlton, Catherine Cole

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A late dark comes down

Cardigan Street

crows call from London planes.

By now you will be chopping at the sink

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Japan, Labour Migration And The Global Order Of Difference, Vera C. Mackie

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In this chapter, I will situate Japan in the global flows of labour migration. While the focus will largely be on migration patterns in recent decades, it will first be necessary to review earlier patterns of mobility which have had a role in shaping current routes and modes of migration. I use two concepts to frame my discussion: Foucault's concept of "biopower" and an adaptation of Connell's concept of the "global gender order", which I will reframe as "the global order of difference".

Why Believe In Contentless Beliefs?, Daniel D. Hutto

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This paper motivates the idea that the most basic kind of believing is a contentless attitude. It gives reasons for thinking that the most basic sort of belief – the sort that both we and other animals adopt toward situations – does not represent those situations in truth-evaluable ways. I call such attitudes pure intentional attitudes. They are not propositional attitudes, which I take to be linguistically mediated intentional attitudes.

Precarious Work, Neoliberalism And Young People’S Experiences Of Employment In The Illawarra Region, Scott Burrows

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Understanding young people’s employment experiences and transitions gives a greater appreciation of the nature of precarious work. Drawing on interview data with 30 participants from research conducted in 2011–2012, this article examines young people’s experiences of employment in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. Levels of unemployment and under-employment above the national average reflect two decades of globalised restructuring of the steel, coal and manufacturing industries which, together with agriculture, have historically been the region’s economic base. The growth of service and knowledge industries has been accompanied by new, ‘atypical’ or insecure work patterns. The interview data indicate …

The Day I Will Be Free - A Rediscovered Courtroom Effusion By Frank The Poet, Mark Gregory

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Copy of an 1835 poem by Frank McNamara with related annotations.

Water-Earth (3 Poems - Water Trail / Funeral Of The River /The Flowers That Would Not Open), Merlinda C. Bobis

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In the house, the taps have dried I am searching for the water In the backyard, the pump has dried I am searching for the water Around the corner, the well has dried I am searching for the water Up the hill, the creek has dried

Hidden Sidetracks, Terumi Narushima

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Ensemble Offspring: "Hidden Sidetracks" by Terumi Narushima .

ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING in their Partch's Bastards Program (all instruments using the same microtonal tuning system called centaur)

The Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, 2nd September 2011

Performers: Anna McMichael Tarhu | Claire Edwardes Centaur Vibraphone | Jason Noble Clarinis | Diana Springford Clarinis

Surviving 'The Contemporary': What Indigenous Artists Want, And How To Get It, Ian A. Mclean

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There is nothing mysterious about what indigenous artists want. They want the same thing as most people: a fair slice of the pie. How to get it, is a much more difficult question to answer. To even find a seat at the table, indigenous art has to first be accepted as contemporary art. This has been its defining struggle in the modern era. The problem, at least until recently, was that the Western tradition of modernism circumscribed the terms of contemporary art. This meant that indigenous artists had first to prove their modernity, a Catch-22 game that they could never …

Indian Movies, Brand Australia And The Marketing Of Australian Cosmopolitanism, Andrew Hassam

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Indian movies shot overseas have attracted the attention of not only advertising agencies keen to see their clients' brands appearing on-screen, but also government tourism commissions eyeing India's growing middle classes as potential visitors. Australian federal and state governments offer Indian film producers financial incentives to film in Australia, and Australian cities now regularly supply Indian movies with backdrops of upmarket shopping malls, stylish apartments and exclusive restaurants. Yet in helping to project the lifestyle fantasies of India's new middle classes, Australian government agencies are supporting an Indian view of Australia. While this image may attract Indian tourists to Australia, …

Time To Define 'The Cornerstone Of Public Order Legislation': The Elements Of Offensive Conduct And Language Under The Summary Offences Act 1988 (Nsw), Julia Ann Quilter, Luke J. Mcnamara

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This article addresses a contradiction that has long been at the heart of the criminal law concerned with ‘public order’. Although crimes such as offensive conduct and offensive language are amongst the most frequently prosecuted offences in Australia, their legal nature is poorly understood and rarely the subject of judicial scrutiny or academic explanation. In the context of ongoing controversy over whether such offences have a legitimate place on the statute books, we confront this oversight. This article draws on the High Court of Australia’s decision in He Kaw Teh v The Queen1 to lay out a methodology for construing …

Feminism And The Nation-State In Japan, Vera C. Mackie

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The first Japanese edition of the book appeared at the height of debates about the interpretation of the Asia-Pacific War, debates which were also linked to conflicts about how the past should be represented in school textbooks.2 Much of this controversy revolved around the issue of enforced military prostitution/military sexual slavery.3 In 1991 Kim Hak-Sun (1924–1997) was one of the few women to come out in public in her own name to narrate her experiences in the enforced military prostitution system and demand an apology and compensation from the Japanese government. She was soon joined by survivors from Korea and …

Responses To The Death Of Thomas Kelly: Taking Populism Seriously, Julia Ann Quilter

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This comment explores the range of responses to Thomas Kelly’s death. Mr Kelly suffered fatal head injuries after being king-hit in the face when walking down the street in Kings Cross, Sydney, in July 2012. It is argued that these responses form a populist and far more nuanced response than the more typical ‘law and order’ reactions of state governments witnessed in the past, making us think about taking populism more seriously.

This Belongs To Me, The One Dollar Note: The Eternal Returns Of Appropriation, Ian A. Mclean

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The dictionary meanings of appropriate and misappropriate are the same: to take something for one’s own use without the owner’s permission. Appropriate also has an additional dictionary meaning: to use something for a purpose that it wasn’t originally intended for. Poetic appropriation is quite different. It does often use images without the owner’s permission and often for an unexpected purpose, but its practice descends from hermeneutics (from Hermes, the ancient Greek messenger of the gods): the ancient art of interpreting the world’s speech. Its methods derive from theories of mimesis and simulation that can be traced well beyond Plato to …