Reading
How does Australian author David Ireland’s last novel, The World Repair Video Game read as a literary exploration of ecofascism and, perhaps, the most powerful we have in Australian (and world?) literature. This blog outlines the contours of my most recent article that traces that argument, just published in Environment and Planning E.
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China used trade protection and cheap wages & grabbed industry from the leading industrial power exactly the same as the US did with Britain.
Ah, childhood! I remember it fondly and often. Getting grass stains on my knees, eating fruit roll-ups, and most importantly, not being burdened by constantly reminiscing about my childhood.
Life was so simple then. No responsibilities, no cares, no memories of fifteen to twenty-five years earlier to warp into the romantic if misguided belief that things used to be better than they are now. I miss it so: the absence of anything to miss!
So much about the world has changed. Namely, enough time has elapsed for me to become aware that the world has changed—and is, indeed, always changing. Things just aren’t the way they used to be, because nothing can move through time and remain exactly the same. Also, “the way things used to be” involved me not perpetually thinking about whether things are the way they used to be or not.