On the adolescent inanity of politics at the end of the world as we know it There's something so banal about the way the latest "attempt" to "reform" Australia's "environment laws" is unfolding. [Is it really a genuine attempt? It&
On improvising our common future Today I learned* that Aufhebung, the word Hegel used to describe the seemingly contradictory (dialectical) process of world-historical political transformation - a process that is both abolition and transcendence, both destroying the old and preserving it in some higher form - is also the word for
A shaky ceasefire holds in Israel-Palestine. And yes, thank whatever or whoever, this is cause for some hope and some celebration. Fewer people are dying today. This is good. But I am filled with grief. Grief for so much death and destruction. Grief for so many lives taken, stolen,
On noticing that the ground has slid away It's like it was yesterday. 16 year old me bopping along to In Between Days at the back of the school bus, the jangly joy of the music jarring perfectly against the angsty lyrics to match my messy teenage emotions.
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Welcome to In Between Days, my new space for writing, for trying out thoughts and ideas, as I find my way from here to there, or there to here, or then to now... floundering about in this in-between space, in life as in the world. Hannah Arendt (and yep,