Category Archives: Art

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Don’t Go To Sydney (Festival)

[Update (April 27, 2023) : From IGA to the ARIAs – via Glastonbury and Gucci: Amy Taylor’s rockin’ rise, Konrad Marshall, The Sydney Morning Herald, December 3, 2022: ‘They opened the Sydney Festival in January [2022], for instance, unaware the … Continue reading

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Blogging 2021 : A Summary

See also : Blogging 2020 : A Summary. January (5) A flying start: three posts dedicated to Yeah Nah Pasaran! (interviews with Becca Lewis, Marc-André Argentino and Megan Kelly) plus one taking note of a failed coup and another about … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #088 w Cristina Moreno-Almeida on Memes and the Moroccan Far-Right : September 30, 2021

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Cristina Moreno-Almeida, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow researching Digital Cultures in Morocco and the author (with Paolo Gerbaudo) of Memes and the Moroccan Far-Right (The International Journal of Press/Politics, Vol. … Continue reading

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“The NSN is dead! Long live the NSN!”

See also : The UPF and Reclaim Australia aren’t ‘concerned parents’ or a bad joke, Andy Fleming, The Guardian, October 20, 2015 (‘Don’t get sucked in by the hijinks of far-right activists: active neo-Nazis are welcome and hold leadership positions … Continue reading

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Better Read Than Dead ~versus~ Retail & Fast Food Workers Union

TLDR : heaps progressive bookshop ‘Better Read Than Dead’ in Newtown, Sydney is currently trying to stop workers from joining a union and obtaining minimal wages and conditions, viz: … their first ever enterprise agreement to secure the most basic … Continue reading

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It’s a Nazi Supanova!?!

[Update (June 24, 2021) : Supanova expo under fire after vendor sells far-right merchandise in Sydney, Josh Taylor, The Guardian, June 24, 2021.] aw geez Supanova Comic Con & Gaming is Australia’s BIGGEST and BEST pop culture expo. It’s comic … Continue reading

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RAFFWU Goes To Readings

aw yiss Today the Retail And Fast Food Workers Union announced: Readings staff are excited to announce that they are inviting management to negotiate an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement with them to secure wages, penalty rates and great working conditions long … Continue reading

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Where have all the second-hand bookshops in regional Victoria gone?

A few years ago I asked What happened to Melbourne’s second-hand bookshops?. I gotta update that list, but in the meantime here’s another (I presume incomplete) list of second-hand bookshops in ‘regional’ Victoria. Albury* Books on Dean ‘Our bookshop is … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #052 w Marc-André Argentino on QAnon & The End of Trump : January 21, 2021

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Marc-André Argentino [Twitter] about LMNOP Q Anon and the end of the Trump regime. Marc-André Argentino is a PhD candidate whose research examines how extremist groups leverage technology to create … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #049 w Caterina Froio on Casapound Italia : December 17, 2020

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Caterina Froio [Twitter], Assistant Professor in Political Science/e-politics at Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), and co-author (with Pietro Castelli Gattinara, Giorgia Bulli and Matteo Albanese) … Continue reading

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