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1. Ronbo says:

   January 19, 2014 at 02:11

   “A leading Australian poet, editor and scholar, Dr Minter’s expertise is concentrated in Indigenous literatures and their interpolations of Australian and transnational modernisms and countermodernisms. His work proposes critical and theoretical affiliations between Indigenous literatures and western cultural formations such as marxism, surrealism, psychoanalysis, economics , ecology, and law. He is particularly interested in comparative and interdisciplinary studies of interactions between Indigenous poetics and cultures of avant-garde experimentalism, the visual arts, cinema, music, resistance politics and ecopoetics…’ ”

   What a beautiful line of bullshit

   This is good for a million dollar grant for Harvard
2. mawm says:

   January 19, 2014 at 05:30

   I doubt the “Dr” Minter (is he any relation?) has the necessary personal computing power to put such a load of horse manure together as the words all exceed 2 syllables. It must have been done by a PR man.
   • The Gantt Guy says:

     January 19, 2014 at 06:25

     Or a random word generator programme!
3. dondiego says:

   January 19, 2014 at 06:43

   Stunning. In a sane world gross wasters like Dr M wouldn’t be putting their hands up saying “Look at me!”
   That’s something I’ve noticed about (esp rabid) lefties: They need the whole world to know how much cleverer they are than you.

   Perhaps the bog admin could indulge him: after five minutes of digging for fishing bait grubs with some indij he’d learn all there is to know about affiliations between “cultural formations such as marxism, surrealism, psychoanalysis, economics , ecology, and law.”

   A whack around the ears with a shovel for not pulling ones weight could work wonders here.
   • KG says:

     January 19, 2014 at 07:09

     A whack around the ears with the edge of a shovel would be positively therapeutic…
     • Seneca III says:

       January 20, 2014 at 04:00

       Yes, quite, and the implosion that such a blow would initiate would, I suspect, be quite impressive
4. KG says:

   January 19, 2014 at 07:11

   “..after five minutes of digging for fishing bait grubs with some indij he’d learn all there is to know about affiliations between “cultural formations such as marxism, surrealism, psychoanalysis, economics , ecology, and law.”..’
   and drinking VB.
5. KG says:

   January 19, 2014 at 07:22

   And describing him(self?) as a “leading Australian poet” is interesting.
   How was that decided? By a poll? Book sales, perhaps?
   Nah….by the acclaim of this creature’s troughing fellow academics and their fellow-travellers (and I use that term deliberately) of course.
6. Mathew says:

   January 19, 2014 at 07:36

   Yeah i’m thinking that surrealism and avant-garde experimentalism would be the most hotly debated topics around the camp fire. I’m sure plenty of half cooked goannas have been kicked over in the arguments.
   • KG says:

     January 19, 2014 at 07:40

     
7. Darin says:

   January 19, 2014 at 10:26

   “Absolutely. I’ve known a number of traditional Aborigines very well, and those are just the kinds of things they ponder while sitting around the campfire, grilling their goannas”

   On the otherhand maybe they do and that’s why they spent the last 10,000 odd years walking bare foot and eating goannas.Just not enough time left in the day to design the wheel or internal combustion engines,or aircraft
8. Wombat says:

   January 19, 2014 at 12:36

   Run through google translator from “dickhead” to “english” it seems to read:
   “Dr Minter’s teaching and research interests are in Australian Aboriginal Literature and Australian Literature wankey wank wank wank wank wank (etc)…”

   Still, it seems like there’s an obvious formula for success here. I’m going to become a professor of and advocate for the (INSERT WORTHLESS HOBBY HERE) of the (INSERT PITIED MINORITY HERE) and study the and their interpolations of Australian and transnational modernisms and countermodernisms. My work proposes critical and theoretical affiliations between (INSERT PITIED MINORITY HERE) and western cultural formations such as marxism, surrealism, psychoanalysis, economics , ecology, and law. I will be particularly interested in comparative and interdisciplinary studies of interactions between (INSERT PITIED MINORITY HERE) poetics and cultures of avant-garde experimentalism, the visual arts, cinema, music, resistance politics and ecopoetics…

   So where’s my tenure and my six figure salary?
   • MvL says:

     January 19, 2014 at 12:43

     Ahhhh….But have you mastered the
     Head Tilt.
     • KG says:

       January 19, 2014 at 14:03

       Oh no..not the dreaded tilt!
       • Oswald Bastable says:

         January 19, 2014 at 15:47

         I thought that was about clearing your snorkel!
         • KG says:

           January 19, 2014 at 18:37

           Lefty don’t snorkel.
   • KG says:

     January 19, 2014 at 15:56

     Ah, but what about your politics, Wombat? Right Wing Death Beasts don’t get to suck on the public tit, y’know.
     To become an academic wanker, repeat after me:
     The Future is the Collective. The Collective is the Consensus. The Consensus is The Truth. Therefore the Collective is the Truth.
     • Wombat says:

       January 19, 2014 at 18:33

       http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120116090657/terminator/images/5/51/No_fate_but_whatever.jpg
       • KG says:

         January 19, 2014 at 18:36

         
     • john says:

       January 20, 2014 at 07:00

       Ahh, Grasshopper
9. Oswald Bastable says:

   January 19, 2014 at 12:52

   http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/60/6068/OXID100Z/posters/glen-baxter-my-work-addresses-the-core-issues-at-the-interface-of-gender-politics-and-new-yorker-cartoon.jpg
   • KG says:

     January 19, 2014 at 14:02

     Perfect, Os!
10. Ronbo says:

    January 19, 2014 at 23:33

    KG said,

    “The Future is the Collective. The Collective is the Consensus. The Consensus is The Truth. Therefore the Collective is the Truth.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4rBDUJTnNU

    See you at the two minute hate, Comrade
11. The Gantt Guy says:

    January 20, 2014 at 04:39

    The timing couldn’t be more perfect. I’m re-reading Camp of the Saints in honour of Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison, and I just read the following passage:

    “Which is doubtless why there was no lack of clever folk, willing, from the start, to spread endless layers of verbal cream, spurting thick and unctuous from the udders of their minds. The obliging bovines of contemporary Western thought, tails all aquiver, acquiesced with delight to the daily milking, especially since, for the moment, there was no cause to think that a serious problem was actually at hand.”
    • KG says:

      January 20, 2014 at 06:31

      I found that book very disturbing, Gantt. The description of a civilization marching inexorably towards suicide is all too vivid and plausible.
      • john says:

        January 20, 2014 at 07:05

        Yeah, all that thick spurting protein is a worry…
12. Soi Dog says:

    January 20, 2014 at 08:08

    Just tell me that some one made all that up as some kind of a left wing Aboriginal sick joke so I can sleep at night for more than an hour at a time and not wake up screaming; nearly as good as the descriptor “Aboriginal nation”.
    • KG says:

      January 20, 2014 at 13:49

      S. Dog, there’s no way to break this gently….the clown exists and is sucking up tax dollars as we speak.
      • Darin says:

        January 20, 2014 at 14:44

        All these commies on the teet,if there was only some way to poison the milk?
        • Wombat says:

          January 20, 2014 at 16:24

          The cows have got to stop turning up for work and stampede instead