June 2010
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“I didn’t join the force just to drift aimlessly into the void.”
– The Bed-Sitting Room
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Diaphanisation
Few things are more pressing than the improvement of investigative techniques.
What enzymes & immersion will render transparent the corpus of an enspecimened quotidian? What will stain any no-longer-hidden structures? Its organs? The entrails of the world are blue, bones unbloody red. Filaments that tether everything might be trace-visible & in places bits & meat pieces could be...
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Diptych
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‘It’s disgusting, it’s...
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“(One wonders why, when something is nameless, it is always so much nastier?)”
– Joan Aiken, ‘Foreword’, in The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
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A cruel flaunting
Section 67a of the San Remo Manual of International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea! Of course!
Since the mass murder on the Mavi Marmara, who hasn’t been on tenterhooks to discover what legal justification Israel’s apparatchiks would take? What recherché citation proving uncontroversial uncontroversiality? The San Remo Manual, eh? Your move, rest of world.
But, many of the...
Freshness, originality, creativity
How degraded is the semi-official discourse of les clercs that sanctimonious poltroonery is treated - still - as important intellectual intervention & moral weightiness?
Because the much-garlanded Lion of Conscience comes down - & the regret at being forced to do so is palpable - on the side of thinking that the mass murder of peace activists trying to deliver wheelchairs was bad, bona...
Lessons learned
Not enough dead. Must - and will - do better.