Category: population

22 Jun

Norm & Emergency

Noel Pearson, allegedly, made it legitimate for white politicians to finally take some action on the national emergency of Indigenous child abuse. His (or the Cape York Institute’s) massive proposal [pdf] for controversial, welfare “reform” experiments as a solution to problems in remote Indigenous communities came after the Little Children are Sacred report [pdf] and [...]
06 Jun

Contagion:Carrier

So I’m writing about the politics of contagion and 28 Weeks Later, which I saw after having encountered foucaultisdead’s viral reading of the film. The sensibility is, then, of a reading already gathered by FID’s. 28 Weeks Later illustrates a logic of viral containment that targets the host. It secures territory against people. This logic of [...]