Art
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Claire Birkenshaw “Well it ain’t written in the papers, but its written on the walls” (Matt Johnson, 1986). In the hands of the military, the stencil graphic is utilised as a means to communicate no-nonsense graphical edicts to direct, control, and corral compliance. When used by those with power, the stencil graphic facilitates a visual…
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Claire Birkenshaw In his book, Imperial Nostalgia, historian Peter Mitchell (2021, p.3) powerfully reminds us that: “The violence of the past is ongoing in the present; not only structurally, in that it is built into the foundations of the society in which we live, but in more subtle, more constitutive ways: in the words we…
Altered States of Academia 