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  • No-One Gets Left Behind: Consumer Neoliberalism and Lateral Violence

    “ALEA IACTA EST– Can Yucel Attila crossed the DanubeHannibal crossed the Alps Caesar crossed the Rubicon And I crossedMy selfBurning all the flowers behind me Translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat” As the article from Mad in America “The Angry Consumer”: Embracing Difficult… Continue reading

  • Unrecovery: What is a Consumer Science?

    Though there may be calls to action to segue to quality psychiatry after all the normative community awareness campaigns are done, I can’t wait. The future of medicine is popularly called to be customised. I can’t wait.  The future of public mental… Continue reading

  • Poem: Postcodemixing

    . . . And then hes the biggest philanderer  and man-bitch out. Karma. He is. Optimistic about burrows  the neoprene the Castaic. Hum under my name.  Beard and muscles? You’re not holding  my breath away. Talk about the term  of… Continue reading

  • Unrecovery: Designer Insomnia, Chronobiopolitics and all that jazz

    The Foucauldian notion of history as power. The Baudrillardian notion of the hyperreal. Both share notion of historical or ontological pre-operative dispositif. power or simulation. Both thus have a type of engineering or enginality, design. Maybe architecture would denote too… Continue reading

  • Unrecovery: Re-Wilding

    “Some are investing a radical potential in the concepts of ‘wilding’ and ‘re-wilding’. This is only true when ‘generalised domestication’ represses the ‘wild’, which is not always the case. Indeed we can say that Trump today is presiding over the… Continue reading

  • Unrecovery: Mad Economics and the Neo Survey Monkeys

    I’m unsure what Ron Coleman meant to encapsulate by his notion of The Mad Economy. It looked like the hustle of self-employment. Having experience as a sole trader: arts event organiser, academic coach and publisher I’ve had a few years… Continue reading

  • Unrecovery: Cyclonic Fish Empathic Dérive

    dedicated to Marrickville Community Health  Centre, Department of Biological Flow and Jezza. I was living in a social housing place I called The Petersham Sound Bubble. Trucks, trains and underneath the flight path. The noise was unrelenting. This, along with… Continue reading

  • Flash Fiction: Findings

    Things I found on the way home: a mini chupa chup strawberry sour, shrinkwrapped. a lilac boiled lolly, shrinkwrapped, half used Cortic -DS 1% cream 30gm, 5 cents. I’m on a bus on City Rd near Victoria Park a motorbike… Continue reading

  • Unrecovery: Dream, Translucidity and the Glass Man.

    I’ve been working on articulating my multisensory dreaming that like many people are not just purely visual. I once dreamt I was reading words. I shouldve written the actual text I read in that dream. Hermeneutical dreaming. A question of a writer’s… Continue reading

  • Unrecovery: Augury and the Melted Crystal

    Werner Herzog said the poet gazes fearlessly into the dark crystal. Maybe the fearlessness trope transforms and the dark crystal melts into rivulets. I had a dream where a clear voice of a past family member talked to me. In… Continue reading