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Australian anthropologist Michael Taussig writes: To slip into the blue of your blue jeans is to slip into a surprising and unexpected encounter with the past … but without your having the faintest idea…
Originally from the United States, I have lived in Melbourne for almost five years. During a recent Skype interview with a student based in the US, I was asked about my first impressions of Melbourne when…
My Twitter feed blew up with retweets of Dezeen’s February 4 2014 article on Danish design student Nanna Kiil’s Flesh Chair, which she had entered in the 2014 Stockholm Furniture Fair. According to her…
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings. Helen Keller This past weekend, I went with family and friends to see the film…
My K-pop (Korean Pop) “bias” Rain, the South Korean singer, dancer, and actor whose real name is Jung Ji-Hoon, recently released a new album called Rain Effect, which has reignited my, uh-hum, “academic…
Did you know that in 2001 Cornel West, one of the foremost American public intellectuals (with an over $10,000 USD speaker fee), released a rap CD called Sketches of My Culture? Professor West’s venture…
“I remember having to use shoe polish to colour in the faces,” my Aunt Jill recalls, when I ask her about the “black-faced” knee-hugger elves that adorned my Grandmother’s fireplace mantel. Knee-hugger…
The issue of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission has generated much public debate and some apprehension…what this issue raises is how we deal with a past that contained gross violations of human rights…
I am currently learning Mandarin Chinese. I am just a beginner, only in the middle of level two. It is the fourth language that I have learned — English, Spanish, Amharic, which is the language of Ethiopia…
If I were a fashion designer, I would create a line of contemporary secular mourning clothes. Why? Lately, I have been thinking a lot about social mourning. Many of my students are now at the age (mid-to…