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		<title>On violence against Indian students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The following is something I wrote some time ago, as a comment on the then-prominent issue of violence against Indian students in Australia, and specifically in response to the various strategies deployed to play down the quantity of this violence, and to undermine any suggestions that racism, or race in any sense, was a significant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2009/11/11/on-violence-against-indian-students/</link>
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		<title>as good as a holiday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	So I walked out saying I was getting a pack of cigarettes and just never came back.

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		<link>http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2009/06/26/as-good-as-a-holiday/</link>
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		<title>surrealpolitik</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	&#8220;The streets surrounding the university and across the city were largely quiet and empty on Thursday. Many workers in this Egyptian capital on the Nile had been told to stay home. The sidewalks were closed to ordinary people but lined by hundreds of soldiers – some dressed in black, others in white – who had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2009/06/14/surrealpolitik/</link>
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		<title>a note on terrorism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	If I am not mistaken the term &#8220;terror&#8221; became current in political terminology during the French Revolution. The revolutionaries began cutting off heads with the guillotine in order to instil fear. Thenceforward the word &#8220;terror&#8221; came to define the acts of revolutionaries or counter-revolutionaries, of fighters for freedom and oppressors. It all depends on who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2009/05/23/a-note-on-terrorism/</link>
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		<title>things so obvious they disappear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The Australian legal system is founded upon torture. The threat and sometimes reality of suffering is deliberately used to generate fast confessions, guilty pleas, uncontested convictions. The practice is so routine, and those affected so marginalized if not despised, that it isn&#8217;t recognised for what it is, often even by those affected. In any parallel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2009/04/22/things-so-obvious-they-disappear/</link>
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		<title>a birthday is a narrative convention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	As part of Sarah&#8217;s birthday, as an expression of love, my love for her that is, I wrote her a tiny short story, which was going to be called &#8220;Provisional Title&#8221; until I changed my mind. That&#8217;s not a joke. By giving a story I give up intellectual property rights, of course, or anyway I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2009/04/12/a-birthday-is-a-narrative-convention/</link>
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		<title>the banal horror of topicality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Toward a culture-industrial politics of spirit; or, the worst crap I&#8217;ve written for a long time&#8230;
In recent days I have been working, once again, on some fiction, primarily the stalled novel I began some time ago, provisionally labeled &#8216;authorities&#8217;. And I&#8217;ve been having discussions with Sarah about the results, most recently about a section of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2008/09/24/the-banal-horror-of-topicality/</link>
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		<title>performative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	To reassure the few people who care that I haven&#8217;t given up on this blog, and for a few other reasons, I thought I would write a few notes.
	Keithie said the word &#8220;silly&#8221; a couple of days ago. It is as yet unclear how much she understands the concept. If she does start to use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2008/06/10/nothing/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;empire, inland&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	anger mis-management
Over the last few weeks I had been quietly amassing notes for a blogpost provisionally entitled &#8216;empire, inland&#8217;. By last night I had two and a half thousand-odd words, some entire paragraphs but many of them just sketchy outlines of arguments or even just fragments, individual sentences, even phrases or subtitles I thought clever. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2008/01/07/empire-inland/</link>
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		<title>communist headache</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I&#8217;ve had the strangest headache/migraine for the last twenty or so hours. For much of it I&#8217;ve wanted to scream maybe three seconds out of every fifteen, and it hasn&#8217;t gone away for more than forty-fove minutes at a time, except, I suppose, after I finally managed to get a few hours of sleep. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2007/12/24/communist-headache/</link>
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