Podcasts about terror nullius

Desert at LittleBlackCart.com (hand cover design) Desert at LittleBlackCart.com (city cover design) Desert at TheAnarchistLibrary.org Immediatism.com My other podcast at PointingTexts.org

Full text here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert Author’s NoteI have written Desert as a nature loving anarchist primarily addressing others with similar feelings. As a result I have not always explained ideas to which I hold when they are, to some extent, givens within many anarchist and radical environmental circles. Hopefully I have written in an accessible enough manner, so even if you don’t come from this background you will still find Desert readable. While the best introductions to ecology and anarchy are moments spent within undomesticated ecosystems and anarchist communities, some may also find the following books helpful — I did. Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism (London: HarperCollins, 2008). Fredy Perlman, Against His-story, Against Leviathan (Detroit: Black & Red, 1983). Christopher Manes, Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990). Clive Ponting, A Green History of the World (London: Penguin Books, 1991). Forward!Something haunts many activists, anarchists, environmentalists, many of my friends. It haunted me. Much of our subcultures tell us it’s not there, that we can’t see it, hear it. Our best wishes for the world tell us not to see it. But for many, despite their best efforts — carrying on with the normal activism, the movement building, living both according to and as an expression of their ethics — despite all this, the spectre gains form. The faint image grows more solid, more unavoidable, until the ghost is staring one in the face. And like many monsters of past tales, when its gaze is met — people freeze. Become unable to move. Give up hope; become disillusioned and inactive. This malaise, freezing, not only slows ‘activist workload’, but I have seen it affect every facet of many of my friends’ lives. The spectre that many try not to see is a simple realisation — the world will not be ‘saved’. Global anarchist revolution is not going to happen. Global climate change is now unstoppable. We are not going to see the worldwide end to civilisation/capitalism/patriarchy/authority. It’s not going to happen any time soon. It’s unlikely to happen ever. The world will not be ‘saved’. Not by activists, not by mass movements, not by charities and not by an insurgent global proletariat. The world will not be ‘saved’. This realisation hurts people. They don’t want it to be true! But it probably is. These realisations, this abandonment of illusions should not become disabling. Yet if one believes that it’s all or nothing, then there is a problem. Many friends have ‘dropped out’ of the ‘movement’ whilst others have remained in old patterns but with a sadness and cynicism which signals a feeling of futility. Some hover around scenes critiquing all, but living and fighting little. “It’s not the despair — I can handle the despair. It’s the hope I can’t handle.” [1] The hope of a Big Happy Ending, hurts people; sets the stage for the pain felt when they become disillusioned. Because, truly, who amongst us now really believes? How many have been burnt up by the effort needed to reconcile a fundamentally religious faith in the positive transformation of the world with the reality of life all around us? Yet to be disillusioned — with global revolution/with our capacity to stop climate change — should not alter our anarchist nature, or the love of nature we feel as anarchists. There are many possibilities for liberty and wildness still. What are some of these possibilities and how can we live them? What could it mean to be an anarchist, an environmentalist, when global revolution and world-wide social/eco sustainability are not the aim? What objectives, what plans, what lives, what adventures are there when the illusions are set aside and we walk into the world not disabled by disillusionment but unburdened by it?

The World is Yours + Mary, Queen of Scots - Cinema Girl Maria Dimitrakas joins us while Andj puts the Rot in Rotterdam. Anne Hathaway to play the Grand High Witch in a new adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches - Angelica Houston says 'Good Luck', Nic Roeg rolls his eyes from the grave. Harmony Korine's Beach Bum, Olivia Wilde's Booksmart and Jordan Peele's Us to premiere at SXSW plus, Peele to produce and star in a new Twilight Zone series. We talk about why it's better to stay single in the lead up to Valentines and catch Terror Nullius  with your girls at Artspace on repeat or submit a film to Kino Sydney!

Stars Wars actor John Boyega is in the studio, Video artists Soda Jerk explain the controversy surrounding their work Terror Nullius, and an interview with rising Australian filmmaker Kitty Green.

Stars Wars actor John Boyega is in the studio, Video artists Soda Jerk explain the controversy surrounding their work Terror Nullius, and an interview with rising Australian filmmaker Kitty Green.

Soda_Jerk are the duo behind Terror Nullius, screening at the SFF. As two of Australia’s leading video artists they talk about their pastiche style, queerdom in video art, their undeniable love of Australian cinema, and hauntology in movies.

Where we fight about the many, many, many films we’ve seen at the Sydney Film Festival and what you should see with 2SER Producer Stephen Hill

In this week’s podcast we take in 'Terror Nullius', the controversial Australiana art film by Soda Jerk (3:13). Then we watch SBS On Demand’s buddy dramedy series 'Homecoming Queens' (17:35). And finally, we gently pat ourselves with discursive serums and crèmes as we exfoliate the meanings of skincare (30:20).

Mary Magdalene, Terror Nullius and The Endless were discussed. With Cerise Howard, Emma Westwood, Lisa Kovacevic and Sally Christie.

The March episode of the Senses of Cinema podcast has Mark, Eloise and third chair Craig Martin discussing Alex Garland's latest film Annihilation. Eloise then gets an exclusive interview with Soda_Jerk, who speak with her about their latest film Terror Nullius, and then Eloise, Craig and Mark talk through the debate over Netflix's decision to release selected films on their streaming service rather than favouring global theatrical exhibition. And of course we end this episode with the best things we discovered in the month of March.

This week we spoke with writer, photographer, musician, pun aficionado, podcaster and occasional filmmaker Liz Duck-Chong on disarming sexism in the arts, the contraceptive pill and more. Plus, funding has been pulled from Soda_Jerk's film Terror Nullius, critiquing "radical critique of Australian masculinity, refugee policy and our treatment of the Indigenous Australians". The Ian Potter Cultural Trust pulled their funding of the film on the eve of its premiere at ACMI. And, in what is hoping to look like the beginning of the end for new HIV transmissions in Australia, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) will be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme from April 1st this year. Thoughts That Count: Following Cynthia Nixon's announcement that she will challenge Governer Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary election, as Oprah's potential presidential campaign, we asked you: celebrities as politicians - Y/N? Is it a win for feminism?

Star Wars actor John Boyega is in the studio talking about his new film. A controversial new video work called Terror Nullius. Friday Night Lights creator is back with a brand new high school drama, and we meet Location Scouts on the set of a BBC drama.

Star Wars actor John Boyega is in the studio talking about his new film. A controversial new video work called Terror Nullius. Friday Night Lights creator is back with a brand new high school drama, and we meet Location Scouts on the set of a BBC drama.