The eighth paperback Collins English dictionary defines conflict as: [An] opposition between ideas or interests. A struggle or battle. To be incompatible. The Latin root word of conflict is ‘confligere’, or ‘to combat’. While...
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I experienced war, similarly to many of my generational peers through Avatar: The Last Airbender...
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...
Read MoreANTHEMS OF CHANGE What’s in an anthem? If you plugged the word ‘anthem’ into Google, you would perhaps one of the driest definitions I’ve seen yet: “A rousing or uplifting song identified with a particular group, body, or...
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As I’ve been reading more about war, I keep on returning to that question posed in our very first...
Read MoreChange is an inevitable part of human existence, a fundamental component of our history that has so often been bolstered and revolutionised by war and conflict. Like change, conflict and by extension, war, are seemingly...
Read MoreThroughout this course, we have been exposed to various legacies of the violence that has shaped our modern world. We have learnt of the violent nature by which our so-called “modern” nation-states have been...
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2020 strikes again the world reacts to the lynching of George Floyd; Fuel to the flame that’s been...
Read MoreIn Foucault’s pendulum Casaubon and Belbo (our protagonists) move from mocking conspiracy theorists from a relative distance, to creating their own elaborate theory (still all in fun), to falling for it and bringing...
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For the past few weeks, the visibility of the Black Lives Matter movement has increased exponentially, especially as part of the quickly circulating posts on Instagram and Facebook. Chains of names, the familiar squares...
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