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Public Cruelty

Political and cultural essays on state violence, cowardice, spectacle, language, and the machinery of harm. The private and public are not separate territories. Power enters the room. Language launders violence. Spectacle teaches people where not to look. These essays follow cruelty from the home to the state and back again.

Democracy Dies When We Are Silent

A view from outside America as democratic language begins to rot.

The Night Before the End

A global scream against the speed of atrocity.

Pauline Hanson: A Symptom, Not the Disease

Despair, grievance, and the political uses of abandonment.

ICE, ICE ANGUS

Imported cruelty, political theatre, and the work of keeping the lights on.

From Dust to Dust

Human ego, annihilation, and consciousness under threat.

Data Centres Can Dream

Artificial intelligence, language, slop, and the insult of small imagination.