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the feeling that frames any effort to communicate publicly
the same feeling accompanied my reading of last year’s horne prize winner – a hollow-bodied effervescence where the words take on a mysterious power, as though they hold secrets that a deeper reading would uncover, as though there’s a way of arranging words that is more desirable than any other way, as though there is…
‘The tangible rests precariously upon the untouched and ungrasped’
‘ There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees, is absolutely necessary if one is to go on looking and reflecting at all. – Michel Foucault. Another week ends without submitting a single thing to Supervisor A, and I…
Antiphonal Histories by Julia Byl
Fakir aladi murakkabun ‘ala jahlin f’al-taksir Aladi murakkab ‘ala jahi-liah Your humble servant who is duly conscious of the weakness and limitations of her own knowledge mounted as he is on the stead of his ignorance. – Sejarah Melayu “What could be a more apt description of a young ethnomusicologist, entering the village of a…
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