Nae Hauf-Way Hoose

I'll ha'e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur / Extremes meet - it's the only way I ken / To dodge the curst conceit o' bein' richt / That damns the vast majority o' men.

Friday, 27 May 2011

The Jargon of Authenticity

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David Burton is most likely New Zealand’s leading food critic; whatever that exact status, it’s certain that his books and wide-ranging writ...

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Wednesday, 18 May 2011

Shinjuku Boys

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Yesterday was the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO). Friends and comrades of mine in Australia marked the day by ...

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Friday, 6 May 2011

Australia's Pacific War

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Part of the great ideological power of ANZAC Day now is the way it mobilises imagery stressing the pity and sorrow of war in order to stren...

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Monday, 18 April 2011

In the Gap

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I’m able to place, with quite some precision, where my first voyage around Kendrick Smithyman collapsed. Somewhere between “ Flying to Palm...

Friday, 1 April 2011

Zainichi as Bare Life

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Everyone knows it yet It’s not on the map It’s not on the map so It’s not Japan It’s not Japan so It might as well vanish It doesn’t matter ...

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Monday, 14 March 2011

地震

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Fukushima, for me, still brings associations of calm and tranquillity, and red leaves. We holidayed up there in Autumn 2008, staying in what...

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Friday, 25 February 2011

To the North, to the North

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January’s Artforum has an interesting short essay by Joan Kee (not, unfortunately, available online). She subjects Ryu Hwan-gi’s 2002 paint...

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