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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Saturday, March 30, 2024

"Zone of interest" as an Ethnography of Indifference

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I saw 'Zone of Interest' when it first appeared. Like many, I came out thinking that I have just seen one of the best movies I have ...
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

The Metamorphosis of Daniele the Zionist

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When I first met my partner Caroline and learnt that her father was of Italian-Jewish background, and that he migrated to Australia to escap...
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