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[10 May 2009 | No Comment | ]
Racial consciousness = fetish?

This piece takes up after the famous British sociologist, Paul Gilroy, who sought to redefine anti-racism by abandoning the analytical relevance of the term ‘race’ altogether. His arguments, which are too substantial and nuanced to rehearse here, are set out in ‘Race ends here’ (1998) and ‘Against Race’ (2000). The present reflection upon Gilroy, however, has been in part prompted by the US presidential campaign.
Fetishes aren’t all unhealthy. Some of them can be kind of fun. But I want to rely upon the kind of fetishism that implies an ‘unhealthy …

Edition 6 - Passing, Failing »

[11 Jan 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
Cultural representation and cultural violence in the Jammed

The Jammed is a political film that attempts to represent Australia’s modern ‘subalterns’, the voiceless and exploited women ‘jammed’ between global capitalism’s voracious hunger for human lives, and the borders which govern them.