Short story, written 2019 and originally published in 2021 by the Joao Roque Literary Journal as a shortlisted entry for the international Asia Pacific Writers & Translators (APWT) prize. It was simultaneously a co-winner of the inaugural Griffith Review Emerging Writer’s Award for 2021, but due to the just prior publication was disqualified for that award, though it had been de-published. It is now published here freely, without prize:
A short article on the social-political receptions of the ‘Assange case’, especially among Western liberal democracies and that of Australia in particular, and what they mean for the future of robust relations between the exercise of human rights and national sovereignty. Published in Overland Journal (online), June 26th, 2023: https://overland.org.au/2023/06/five-questions-about-assange/
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“A Buddhist perspective on the ethics of violence” – ABC Radio National Philosopher’s Zone interview
A half-hour interview with political theorist Dimitri Vouros on the theme of Buddhist philosophy, ethics, and lethal violence. With thanks to producer David Rutledge of The Philosopher’s Zone, and the AAP (Australasian Association of Philosophy) for sponsoring the programme.
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Poem in Westerly Magazine 67.2: https://westerlymag.com.au/issues/67-2/
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Short interview with Counterpoint program host Amanda Vanstone on killing and Buddhism, in Myanmar, and in state-sanctioned warfare (December 5th): https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/counterpoint/counterpoint/14110658
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An article-essay for AEON Journal, in response to some popular and academic discourse on the theme of Buddhism and killing. Published online October 31st, 2022: https://aeon.co/essays/if-killing-is-antithetical-to-buddhism-how-can-they-do-it
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Short story published in Westerly Magazine 67.1 (July 2022): https://westerlymag.com.au/digital_archives/westerly-67-1/
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Short article on the contemporary relations and state of play between technoscience, the state, and the person as technobiotic consumer and political-economic subject, broadly construed, and in a broadly post-Heideggerian register:
https://www.academia.edu/81495430/Technoscience_and_the_Colonisation_of_Value
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Interview published on the Ploughshares Journal blog (January 27, 2022) with American poet Ravi Shankar on his memoir “Correctional” – https://blog.pshares.org/my-hope-is-this-book-is-not-simply-a-literary-artefact-and-that-it-is-used-for-more-than-my-own-personal-redemption-an-interview-with-ravi-shankar/?fbclid=IwAR3SP4Vr0dwh38bLGw-DlZPVP2wOXKMV4DmI28vfg7XNGv6tQy8xgx3-7Z8
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