Dr. Willis’ lecture, to me, demonstrated the ability of almost anything to be a story in some context. The two main examples she covered were the historical narratives that ‘dark tourists’ absorbed through their tourism, and the...
Read MoreDr. Patrick Thomsen’s seminar on knowledge genealogies demonstrated to me how much knowledge can be filtered through the worldviews of those who hold it. Sometimes this will be unavoidable — history can’t change, so...
Read MoreTranslation is a simple process, right? Take a word in one language, change it into the other language, repeat for the whole text. A tried and true method, except… obviously not, please don’t translate things like...
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The Australian outback: unexplored, uninhabited, dangerous. You’re an explorer setting out for the first time across the new frontier.
Read MoreDr. Zizek’s lecture on the history of revolutionary violence made me question some of the ways in which historical conflict is percieved. The killing of George Floyd, and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests have...
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