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BellingenNSW @[email protected] · 2026-04-24 · 22:15 UTC

A lawless new order: The destruction of societies and civilisations on a large scale.

* "A new normal where the eradication of infrastructure, agriculture, cities and towns fit for habitation and entire cultures, is acceptable to much of the world as a method of war." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/24/gaza-israel-lebanon-war

* Israel's killing of journalists in Lebanon shows a lack of guardrails on its actions >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-25/israel-journalists-killed-lebanon-gaza/106582644
#war #violence #destruction #LawlessNewOrder #dehumanisation #WarTrauma #crime #law #journalism #witness #obliteration #civilisation

#war #violence #destruction #lawlessneworder #dehumanisation #wartrauma

BellingenNSW @[email protected] · 2026-01-27 · 02:39 UTC

Response to the alien: Corporeal experience between selfhood and otherness

"The topographical enquiries that Waldenfels presents assume that the Other not only has its own times, but its own locations as well."

A Topography of the Other, Studies for a Phenomenology of the Other 1, Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/bernhard-waldenfels-a-topography-of-the-other-fr-9783518289204

Phenomenology of the Alien, Basic Concepts, by Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810127579/phenomenology-of-the-alien/
#interculturality #otherness #modernity #violence #experience #IntersubjectiveNormatively #alien #monolingualism #nationalism #foreigners #EthnoNationalism #phenomenology #EpistemicInjustice #dehumanisation #book

#interculturality #otherness #modernity #violence #experience #intersubjectivenormatively

BellingenNSW @[email protected] · 2026-01-26 · 03:07 UTC

Truth-telling and justice

* “I can understand how Corowa is now known as the place where we have 40 neo-Nazis march up and down our main street on a Saturday morning. Now we’re starting to remove flags. I can understand how someone can see it cascading.”
A regional NSW council voted to remove the Aboriginal flag to promote ‘unity’ – it did the opposite >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/26/a-regional-nsw-council-voted-to-remove-the-aboriginal-flag-to-promote-unity-it-did-the-opposite

* "The rise in voting support for One Nation, which mirrors the success of populist politicians in the United States and United Kingdom, provides further evidence of the rise of a more hardline, right-wing populism, which often celebrates rather than questions the history of European imperialism.”
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Opposition to moving Australia Day from January 26 is hardening: new research
https://theconversation.com/opposition-to-moving-australia-day-from-january-26-is-hardening-new-research-273795

* "People don't understand that the current policies are still embedded in their colonial roots.” >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-25/truth-telling-closing-the-gap-indigenous-affairs-agenda-2026/106260862

#PostReferendum #zeitgeist #SettlerSociety #FirstNationsPeoples #WhitePrivilege #WhiteSupremacy #EuropeanColonialism #FarRight #EthnoNationalism #dehumanisation #Empire #Australia #equality #governance #NSW #TruthTelling

Image: NSW North Coast tribal boundaries, Tindale's map 1974

#postreferendum #zeitgeist #settlersociety #firstnationspeoples #whiteprivilege #whitesupremacy

BellingenNSW @[email protected] · 2026-01-18 · 07:45 UTC

"Australia remains the only liberal democracy not to have adopted its own constitutional or statutory bill of rights. Instead there is a patchwork of local laws and international agreements...The Australian commitment to human rights is always subject to political whim."
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/18/for-all-the-talk-of-australian-values-our-rights-as-citizens-and-humans-remain-fragile

Hartmut Rosa, Situation and Constellation, On the Disappearance of Human Agency
"Particularly in our professional lives – but increasingly also in our leisure time – our decision-making is prescribed in advance by guidelines and forms, algorithms and apps, right down to the smallest of details. The role of situational, sensitive consideration and judgment is being replaced by the constellation-based machine logic of execution, which we wield on a daily basis. »Agree«/»Reject« – this is how agents of action turn into executors of actions."

"...When spheres of discretion and judgment disappear and the creativity of human agency is eliminated from everyday practices of execution, we feel an increased sense of powerlessness. And as our power of judgment dwindles, so does our energy to act."
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https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/hartmut-rosa-situation-and-constellation-fr-9783518588338

#HumanRights #citizens #dehumanisation #BillOfRights #HumanAgency #HumanAction #PowerOfJudgment #machine #algorithm #robodebt #HumanInTheLoop #HITL #HeterogeneousEnsemble #assemblage #apparatus #ToDoList #governance

#humanrights #citizens #dehumanisation #billofrights #humanagency #humanaction