Progressive culture since 1954
Watching Break of Day today positions Weir’s Gallipoli as a reactionary response to the prior subversion of the ANZAC myth. However, the popular and critical success of Gallipoli , and the launching of Weir’s international career, effectively erased Ken Hannam’s critical and pre-emptive deconstruction from Australian film/media discourse.
The sublime failure of Snipes’s performance is, for me, a triumphant evocation of what Poetry is, or wants to be. An exceptionally blunt object, a constant attempt to push toward something new.
To say that Australian officials were complacent in keeping Kiwi Farms operational for as long as it was would be an understatement. Australia was directly responsible for its continued existence as well as the harm it caused.
Instead of asking if Giorgia Meloni is a fascist, then, as everyone seems to be frantically doing, we may ask what kind of non-fascist would run under a symbol that was crafted in order to avoid falling afoul of anti-fascist laws, or adopt one of Mussolini’s most famous slogans—‘For God, country and family’—as the tagline of her election campaign.
Citizen Sleeper follows Deleuze and Guattari’s thought, whereby to resist one must move toward the plane of immanence and the multiplicity of capacities it offers. If we are all sleepers, then we must learn how to make new collectives, multiplicities and fleshly and virtual becomings. As my favourite ‘ending’ of the game tells us, we must turn away from identity, representation and ideology and ‘grow strange’ against the boundaries of capitalism.