Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.
The God of the ‘God powers’
[The Prime Minister’s staff discuss plans for Australia Day]Nick (senior political adviser): Who did Australian history? Murph?Murph (director central...
An archive for the dispossessed
As an archive, the Jaffna Public Library told a story about the place of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka. The political authorities of the 1980s wanted to suppress that narrative – and burning the archive was a quick and conclusive way to do it.
Blood and bone
Listen to contributor Alice Bellette read ‘Blood and bone’. Seek company of others who refuse to accept cultural amnesia, who refuse to once...
Zamby, zombi, zombie
ANGRY MEN GATHERED in the dark of night at Bois Caïman, the Alligator Woods, under the shadow of the...
Disrupting the colonial narrative
The many Indigenous nations of the globe have always been storytellers, and our stories tell of an animate reality...
Remaking universities
CAN WE GRIEVE not for a person but for an institution? Should we be angry over possibilities destroyed, young...
Simulated learning
IN GILLES DELEUZE’S ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control’, the philosopher compares a discipline society in which one is...
Schooled
TOWARDS THE END of Educated, her harrowing memoir of an Idaho childhood with Mormon survivalist parents, Tara Westover concludes:...
By design
I WAS TREMBLING. Not because I was about to do something risky or scary – quite the opposite. This...
Compulsory wellbeing
SUCH GREAT PAY and all those holidays. Plus you only work from nine ’til three…is often the response a...
The colonial storytelling of good intent
There was once a time when all spoke the same language, no matter the skin, and so there was...
Follow the leader
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES ARE unsettled. There is no doubt they are facing significant and real challenges. Many of their buildings have...
