Mike Griffiths

Solidarity to Macquarie University friends, colleagues and students rallying against job cuts that damage staff and student wellbeing and the fabric of the university. 12.00 in the central courtyard. Get along if you can!

Roland Barthes declared the ‘death of the author’, but postcolonial critics have begged to differ Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or revolutionary as it seemed.

I wrote, for the Conversation an article in their Cultural Thouchstones series which is as much on Roland Barthes as on his anticolonial reception. I'm interested in all of your thoughts.
Publication day
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Great thanks to James Ley, Editor at the convo.
theconversation.com/roland-barth...

Breaking the blockade: What will it take to end starvation in Gaza? Join Chris Sidoti and Scientia Associate Professor Jessica Whyte for a webinar to discuss the current situation on the ground in Gaza and their thoughts on a path forward.

www.humanrights.unsw.edu.au/events/break...

How to understand Beef Spureme and the idiocracy today.

In 2025 it is now the Arab (and the Persian), transnationally who is imagined to be the threat to domestic middle class economic prosperity in the first World.

I don't want to get too highfalutin but Sartre on antisemitism ironically pointed to this exact phenomenon. For the antisemite in, say 1937, the Jewish subject was imagined to be a threat to national, especially middle class prosperity.

I love how financial news reports the assault on Gaza or Israeli violence in Lebanon and Iran etcetera as just some kind of variable in the stock market or impacting oil prices. It's sickening in its inability to see a suffering face. It's the cost of living, my dears.

The end of reality - The Shot Our establishment has asked us to believe that up is down, and that might is right. That this slaughter is ok. They are lying to you.

Here's @omarsakr.bsky.social, making his debut on The Shot. "The end of reality"

Gaza: UN warns of ‘weaponised hunger’ and growing death toll amid food chaos The top UN humanitarian official in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has issued a stark warning over the deepening crisis in Gaza, where civilians are being killed daily while trying to access food,...

More than 400 people in Gaza have now been killed trying to reach food at sites run by the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’. “The attempt to survive is being met with a death sentence,” says Jonathan Whittall, UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA).
news.un.org/en/story/202...

Indigenous man dies in police custody in Alice Springs An Indigenous man has died after being restrained by police in custody in Mparntwe/Alice Springs.The man, who Guardian Australia has identified as a 24-year-old Aboriginal male from the town, died on ...

nit.com.au/27-05-2025/1...

How common is Israel’s use of human shields in Gaza and the West Bank? Army under pressure to provide answers amid growing evidence that orders to use Palestinians as ‘fodder’ come from top.

While human shields as a discourse is often imputed to the other side, Israel has been demonstrably guilty of this act on more than one occasion:

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

'Palestinians must be heard': Bluesky urged to review 'punitive' policies towards Gaza content Social media users say Gaza accounts and pro-Palestinian voices are disproportionately 'censored' by the platform

Bluesky is not the good place. So, we should pressure the devs/mods to do better. www.middleeasteye.net/trending/blu...

Hello, I'm Mohammed from Gaza. I'm 19 years old. We're in a difficult situation to live in the shadow of the war. Please donate and publish
and my situation is very bad. Can you help me with some money because I really need money and my situation is very bad

chuffed.org/project/moha...

I will DM you, Mohammed. I hope I can help with any funds. for relief of hunger. at this terrible time.

Our conference at the University of Wollongong is entering its second day. We are exploring the theme of literary realism in the context of the First Nations concept of Country. Here are some images from the first day.

The Prime Minister is lying to your face about selling weapons for Israel’s genocide - The Shot The hairs Albanese is splitting are on the heads of murdered Palestinians. Australia is contributing to Israel's genocide of Palestine.

theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

none of us are real academics (I just play one on TV)

I liked yours the best :-D

Realism on Country
22–23rd May 2025
University of Wollongong
Research Hub 19.2072B

Co-sponsored by ASAL

Free!

AUHE Research Seminars Cara Linley “Is What’s Mine Really Mine? Re-Imagining Resource Ownership and Control in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction” Download video Ellie Crookes “Havelock North: A Medieval To…

url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/0BgiC2xMkk...

Last year I presented in this online series from the Australian University Heads of English. A45 minute long talk plus some discussion.

Topic was: "'An Appetite to Begin: Intention, Politics and
(Post)Structuralism in Edward Said’s Critical Writing,"

Point: AI has to be used better and to prepare students for a changing world through having them respond to AI produced work.
Counterpoint: AI wrecks thinking and writing.
if we only have students do assignments predicated on point 1 we don't prepare students to drive poesis, but to drive mimesis.

Public universities require some form of institutional neutrality. They cannot survive as partisan institutions.

But there's no way for universities to achieve neutrality if one party is flatly anti-intellectual, nativist, and fascism-curious. They cannot be neutral in relation to that.

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@anthroprofhage.bsky.social @alicektg.bsky.social @johnattridge.bsky.social @wombatscholar.bsky.social

I'll email you the ebook!

@alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social curious for your read on this.

@jessicawhyte.bsky.social curious for your read. I can send you a copy.

the insane views are laughably awful! But they have no chance in this seat. So let the craziness implode (though I'm aware toxic views spread).

This arrived in the mail. I mean to remain chuffed!

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...