Mandy Martin, Puritjarra 2, 2005. For further information on MANDY MARTIN, refer here: http://www.mandy-martin.com/
If there are diverse kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing place, then we need to learn to value the different ways each of us sees a single place that is significant, but differently so, for each perspective.
adrift on a sea of information at a time when the world's night is a destitute time. In the age of the world's night, the abyss of the world must be endured.
--Adelaide is home. Relaxation is Victor Harbor. I'm a frustrated photographer who has lost his way in life.I have trouble coping in the technological mode of being of our complex digital world.
An example from the Liberal Party of Australia under its current leader Tony Abbott:
Note those red arrows pointing to Australia. They are very graphic. They refer back to the red invasion of the1950s. It is a complete re-run (arrows thrusting towards Australia and all) of the yellow/red peril ads the DLP used to run in the 1950s and 1960s. Only in the 21st century it is the Muslims, not aggressive communism, who are threatening to invade Australia and undermine its national sovereignty.
Of course, the reality is that 'Muslims' refers not to Mongols, but to asylum seekers from Afghanistan fleeing civil war in which Australia is involved as part of the NATO force fighting the Taliban. Asylum seekers are equated with an invading force (and terrorists) and so we have the politics of fear based on mass deception.
The implication of this visual rhetoric is that the Labor government could not be trusted to protect Australia's borders.
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