Some pics from a recent research visit to Ōamaru, where I visited the Waitaki Archives as well as some historic estates (Totara, Windsor Park)
I've begun researching a new book, 'Farms Aflame: The Secret History of Rural Arson' (working title). Still very much at the gathering archives phase, but I can already see this is going to be interesting mahi!
#envhist #radicalhistory
A month late, but the news is still sad. And considering LA right now, 'Riot. Strike. Riot' remains crucial reading. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Last weekend, Destiny Church escalated its attacks against the queer community. Destiny wants to drive queer New Zealanders back into the closet.
PAPA won't let this happen. We stood for queer liberation as No Pride in Prisons and we stand for it now.
NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! (Kind of) 📚💙
In honor of my late grandfather CLR James's 124th birthday, meet the new edition of his 1953 book *Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We live In*
I wrote the foreword with 🧪 in mind!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Hey team. What is the technical term for this way of laying out a chapter's content? You see it in lots of 19th and early 20th century work...
How the militant, poet, political theorist, organizer, and giver of gifts refused to die.
PS Verso currently have his book as a free download: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
The closure of The Desert Road (SH1) will see people diverted onto highways first made by prisoners - SH4, 46, 47 and 48. I've written about these highways and work that went into their making here: garagecollective.blogspot.com/2024/11/heav...
Here's the closure details BTW: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
A juicy new blog about the history and posters of Garage Collective (aka @anrchivist.bsky.social), including numerous music gig examples from the 2000s New Zealand scene, including A Low Hum. Some beautiful artwork here from the archive at the Turnbull Library.
natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/g...
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
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In Riot. Strike. Riot, Joshua Clover describes the modern form of upheaval as riot prime –where the economy is out of reach but the state is near, with its progressively militarized police forces depu...
