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Announcements & Updates (October 2025)
Now that the blog has fully been transitioned to the more ‘central hub’ role I outlined in an article earlier this year, I will be making some more of the update/announcement posts I used to make in the early days… Continue reading
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I Love The World: Some Notes & Reflections After 8 Years of NSfN
Patience is a virtue that you never seemed to learnYou were born with nothing, to nothing you’ll return – New Model Army, “Lights Go Out”, The Ghost of Cain (1985) I find myself in a peculiar mood these days with… Continue reading
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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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The Dream Is Over, But The Task Remains
Some time ago I wrote a piece entitled Is It Over? as I grappled with the possibly bleak implications of my research. I fretted that everyone was running blind towards a brick wall, or worse that they’d struck it full… Continue reading
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Is It Over?
As I begin typing here, I’m not entirely sure what the end result of this piece will be. I find myself at wits end puzzling over what exactly the New Zealand radical left should do going into the future. It’s… Continue reading
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Left Out? The Extra-Parliamentary Left in Aotearoa/NZ from 1999 to 2008
By popular demand, I’ve decided to put a copy of my master’s dissertation on the blog for anyone interested to have a browse. Left Out? The Extra-Parliamentary Left in Aotearoa/NZ from 1999 to 2008 represents both a year of my life… Continue reading
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Drowning in a Shallow Cesspit
What a thoroughly abhorrent swamp the parliamentary left presently is. Nothing, it would seem, is safe from opportunistic reaction (though to be fair I never really doubted this to be the case). Over the past few weeks a certain level… 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
Notes South from Nowhere 