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Monthly Archives: October, 2009

A Museum of Intolerance in Jerusalem

An excellent address by Saree Makdisi who was in Australia recently as the 2009 recipient of the Adelaide-based Edward Said Memorial Lecture (there is also a US-based Edward Said Memorial … Continue reading

15 October, 2009 · 2 Comments

Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion

Author and journalist Chris Hedges discusses his new book, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, which describes what he considers to be the economic, … Continue reading

15 October, 2009 · Leave a comment

Obama's Nobel in cartoons

10 October, 2009 · 7 Comments

On Rage: Germaine Greer

Intellectual powerhouse provocateur Germaine Greer is always good for some brain food. Here she offers a thought-provoking talk on her ‘rage’ thesis about colonialism, militarism and the current state of … Continue reading

10 October, 2009 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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