Monthly Archives: March 2011

Tourism is the definitive manifestation Western modernity. Dean MacCannell’s theory of the leisure class amounts to as much: tourism, he suggested, is organized around the same alienation of labour–’alienated leisure’–as the rest of consumer capitalism. Or, to put it more … Continue reading →

I grew up listening to Bryan Waddle. Late at night I’d switch on the radio to hear Wadds commentating from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh or Zimbabwe, presiding over the last rites of the bloated corpse of New Zealand cricket, as it lurched from destitution to despair. As I drifted off to sleep he would enter my dreams, whispering confidentially, ‘You’re going to fail’. Continue reading →

It has taken weeks, but on the eve of the Memorial I finally found that I had something to say about #eqnz. Continue reading →

When I flew out of Christchurch Airport bookshops were still selling postcards with the Cathedral featuring front and centre. Why? And how does this relate to other political thinking? What role does feeling have in politics? Continue reading →

One of the purposes of this blog aims to analyse discourse. It is not a partisan site in the sense that David Farrar’s Kiwiblog or The Standard are. We figure that the space for reactionary political rage is already crowded … Continue reading →