Monthly Archives: August 2012

Jessie Cole’s Darkness on the Edge of Town

Posted on August 16, 2012 by rustichello

Darkness on the Edge of Town by Jessie Cole is a great little book. I really liked that in no way did it suggest that by reading it the book would change your life, or make you kinder, or improve … Continue reading →

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Lloyd Boney

Posted on August 8, 2012 by rustichello

I didn’t know Lloyd Boney but I knew his brothers and sisters. They were at school with me. I knew him to look at. He was one of a couple of dozen Aboriginal men who spent a lot of time … Continue reading →

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saturday night (get a little action in?)

Posted on August 2, 2012 by rustichello

I’d like to make an argument about the current panic regarding late night grog fuelled violence that involves the possibility of seeing grog fuelled violence as being part of what Zizek calls systemic violence, the “often catastrophic consequences of the … Continue reading →

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the monkey and the plywood violin

Posted on August 1, 2012 by rustichello

I have been having a lot of conversations recently about trying to reform the system from within. It’s a conversation about how to behave ethically and how to act with a view to a future in which good things are … Continue reading →

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