Status Updates From The Racial Politics of Aust...

Book 2 - Against Paranoid Nationalism - down. Less tightly focused than the first, but more exploratory for it: reflections on economies of hope, suicide bombing, 'mutual obligations' in social welfare, multicultural aesthetics, etc. Still great.

Finished 'White Nation', the first of three books collected here. It is astonishing. Because although seemingly about multiculturalism in 90s Australia, this is equally a book about the loss of entitlement, and the social pathologies spawned in response. And to read this is to come to recognize those same pathologies now multipling across the globe at breathtaking pace. Portentous doesn't even begin to describe this.