Our wall of water: gazing at Fortress Australia from Colombia's open borders
‘Well, it’s just that no-one has ever wanted to come here,’ my cuñada tells me.
Progressive culture since 1954
My art doesn’t exist to educate white people: the meaning and purpose of Where are you from?
If the main purpose of my work was to educate white people, I would have seen it as a failure after being rejected twice by white art institutions. I would have seen it as a failure after the predominantly white attendees of the music and arts night drew penises and wrote jokes on my work.
When the game plays you: DotaPlus and surveillance capitalism
What makes DotaPlus interesting isn’t that it represents a new stage in the ongoing platformisation of videogames, but rather – I would suggest – that it reflects an economic and infrastructural model reliant on the quasi-autonomous capture, sorting, and presenting of user data. This model has transformative implications for the players’ experience of gaming.
What's killing the river
After a century of Royal Commissions and interstate agreements we are arguably closer than ever before to destroying our largest river system.
It’s in the interest of our universities to make sexual misconduct data public
University students have a right to know the scale of sexual misconduct as an issue on their campus that pertains to their mental and physical wellbeing. Prospective students, as well as current ones, should be able to fully and easily inform themselves of the track record of the institutions where they will spend a significant portion of their time studying, and in some cases working or living.