Imperialism
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Condition, Terminal? Notes Toward and Against a Concept of National Pessimism
I have intended for some time to write this piece, to formalize ideas which have swirled in the æther since I started my first clumsy attempts at writing for a public audience. Some have been abandoned, others changed in form… Continue reading
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Notes on the International Question
This article has been bubbling away in the background since the military coup d’état of the 1st February 2021 in Myanmar, I returned to it but still did not see fit to finish it during the Solomon Islands riots of… Continue reading
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Choosing to Forget
There is an ANZAC Day we could have, that occasionally peaks through the one we do have. It’s a day where pithy remarks like ‘Lest We Forget’ and ‘A Day of Remembrance’ have a meaning beyond uncritically elevating the soldiers… Continue reading
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Reprint: Towards a Socialist Polynesia (Owen Gager, pamphlet, 1982)
I’ve decided to reprint this now obscure essay by Owen Gager partly because I’ve seen it referenced on numerous occasions (it seems to have made some waves at the time) and partly because I see very few attempts at such… Continue reading
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Reflecting on the Spectacle of ANZAC
Now that another years’ concentrated spectacle is a month or so passed, I thought I’d throw up a short reflection on ANZAC Day while I work on other projects. This year was the first I didn’t go to any services,… Continue reading
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Reprint: Salient looks at New Zealand’s Far Right (uncredited, Salient, 1970)
This took a while to put together, effectively editing around 10,000 words of article that included both scanning mistakes and the occasional mistake in the original articles. I’ve cut the centerpiece interview (posted here), and some literature from the National… Continue reading
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Reprint: British Liberty? (E.W., Salient, 1938)
I found this article (a letter to the editor) while browsing the NZETC archives of Salient, Vol. 1 No. 11 June 1938 to be precise. Although I’ll post some much more substantial gems later it caught my eye, not least… Continue reading
Notes South from Nowhere 