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River City, Storm City, Flood City: A prospective on Tropical Cyclone Alfred
Meanjin, Brisbane, BNE. The River City lives upon the floodplain of the Maiwar, which for many millennia was a prodigious wetland. The Turrbal name of the locale, Meanjin (“spike”), refers to the pointed riverbend in which the central business district is nestled. The ghost of the swampland is still felt to this day, in the…
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All at once, and only once: a migrant, media graduate & science enthusiast’s take on a movie like no other
(Major spoiler warning for the entire movie) “immigrant stories are ghost stories are multiverse stories and in multiverse stories all of your ghosts inhabit your body simultaneously…” — everythingeverywhereallatonce Migration is always a traumatic quantum branching. It’s something we’ve always known, though not necessarily in those words. We palpably feel ourselves torn from one universe…
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Societies of control and the failure of the taxonomic project. Or, how pride flags are related to pelicans.
The categorisation of things stems from but a single aim: to organise very large numbers of things, or collections of data, so as to harness and manipulate them. This is particularly useful–and profitable–as global systems of commerce and administration are handed to the purview of information technology, as big data looms increasingly large on our…
