David Ley on “the aestheticisation of place”
“Artists … are very special members of the middle class for they stretch its imagination, its desires, even its practices, beyond its norms and conventions. The artistic lifestyle, like the creative...
View Article“seemingly disused”
A friend told me this story a while ago. It’s been part of my thinking about the ethics of occupying marginal space. It’s a few years ago. I’m in town for a festival. I and a few other university types...
View ArticleRetail to residential
Greens call for more affordable housing, City News 25 October 2012 High life in a shop top, Northern Star 20 July 2012 see also
View ArticleFlat hunting
The first was Flat 7, a very similar Flat 7 from the original, in that it was up top in an enormous converted Victorian terrace, and on the same street. It had been cut in half though, with the other...
View ArticleNimbin
As a suburban child of the eighties in Australia, my first impression of Nimbin was beamed to me from the butt of a joke. It was either The Comedy Company or Full Frontal, and there was a character who...
View ArticleThe fruits of back-to-the-land
“… the spin off effects of the back to the land movement on regions where it was focused is both surprising and largely unacknowledged. I have argued that the rural resettlement in the more desirable...
View Articlethe police are everywhere confronted
“Among the institutions that stamp their imprint on the daily life of the population and on the climate of ‘problem’ neighbourhoods, special attention must be afforded to the police. As the ‘frontline’...
View Article#occupy/place
“We have heard of the ‘resignations from the American Dream’[14] that emerged as a part of the Occupy phenomenon, as well as the re-emergence of occupy infrastructures in the form of #OccupySandy in...
View ArticleRoaches and restitution
“I don’t see what I’ve done so wrong that I can’t live like everyone else in the world, live in a house and have a house that I can call home.” – Sam (pseudonym) qtd in Besides one’s self: Homelessness...
View ArticleRoaches without borders
Cockroaches, particularly those with the rapid reproduction habits of the “German” cockroach, are not subject to legal property demarcations and the properties thereof. They do not obey tenancy laws...
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