Pacific
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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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…mō te āke, āke, āke! (Dunedin Waitangi Day, 6th February 2024)
I decided to let this one sit with me for a bit before endeavoring to get it into publishable shape, so my field notes/protest photography article on this year’s massive Waitangi Day demonstration in Ōtepoti Dunedin are appearing a little… Continue reading
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Supplementary Notes on the International Question and Movement Dynamics
This is a supplemental to the article Notes on the International Question, recently published in an issue of Fightback, collating a loose collection of notes, material cut from the article, and conversations had on the article in the intervening month.… 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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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
Notes South from Nowhere 