Monday, April 21, 2025

Remembering a Pope whose writing on the ecological crisis was worth engaging with Intellectually. (The last section from the concluding chapter of Is Racism an Environmental Threat? Polity Press, 2017)

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Generalized domestication: from symbolic violence to orthodoxy Examining both the possibilities of other modes of existence and, as importan...
Monday, March 24, 2025

WITH THE FIG, THE OLIVE AND THE POMEGRANATE TREES: THOUGHTS ON ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN BELONGING

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(originally published in the Australian's education supplement and later in Robert Manne and Chris Feik, The Words that Made Australia ,...
Friday, January 24, 2025

still here: On Anti-Racist Joy

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Racism is a phenomenon responsible for much hate, death and destruction throughout history.  As such it is easy to associate something like ...
Monday, December 16, 2024

Translation of Samuli Schielke's 'Censorship through intimation: Preliminary report from the Ghassan Hage case against the Max Planck Society'

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Anyone who expected that a German labor court would not be a place for courtroom dramas was proven wrong last Tuesday. The Halle Labor Court...
Friday, November 8, 2024

A summary of Professor Ghassan Hage’s arguments about Israel and Palestine in his academic work

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(this text was produced by and with my German lawyers to help them with their pleading  on my behalf    in my case against Max Planck on Dec...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Surprised, Outraged and Can’t Understand What is Going On

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  I used to have a ritualistic argument with my partner concerning her affective politics. Whether she is talking about coal mining, abortio...
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Thursday, October 24, 2024

Symbolic Violence, Trump and Biden/Harris (Excerpts from the Concluding Chapter of Pierre Bourdieu's Political Economy of Being (Duke University Press, forthcoming)

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... As the above highlights, in conceiving politics as the politics of making and un-making reality, Bourdieu argues that every domination i...