Screenshot of Meta's marketing blurb for their AI agent, Manus. Australia uses Manus Island as a detention centre for asylum seekers.
Oh dear, Meta's clever marketing team hasn't thought through the name of their "go-to AI agent" for Australian customers! 🙄 #Manus #ManusIsland #AIhasn't
Screenshot of a journal article. Title: “Spirits of Resistance”: A Politics of Feeling in Behrouz Boochani’s Prison Writing. Author: Rebecca Hill, RMIT. Abstract: This article engages with Behrouz Boochani’s prison writing, especially his autobiographical novel No Friend but the Mountains and his poetic manifesto, “A Letter from Manus Island”. Boochani wrote these works while he was incarcerated in Australian immigration detention on Manus, a tropical island in an archipelago in the far north of Papua New Guinea. His writing is widely acclaimed for its meticulous description and analysis of the ongoing atrocities of the Australian immigration detention regime. I argue that his work should also be read as a sustained thinking of collective practices of freedom. The practices of freedom that Boochani articulates emerge in the generation of “profound relations” of feeling between the people, animals, plants, oceans and winds of Manus. These relations of feeling resist the system of control, coercion and violence that undergird Manus Prison. For Boochani, the system of control at the prison is a microcosm of what he calls Manus Prison Theory. His thinking of freedom is a thinking with the feelings and forces of Manus, and his writing is traced with the places that he wrote in.
Introducing the papers in 49.4:
Hill examines the more-than human elements of Behrouz #Boochani's prison writing as an important part of his "practices of freedom".
#OzStudies #immigration #ManusIsland #OpenAccess
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Next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar Claire Loughnan explores #digitalhumanities #criminology & #memorial with Against Erasure, a 3D model of #ManusIsland Detention Centre, preserving collective knowledge of a controversial chapter in AU immigration history
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#Paladin #ManusIsland
#NACC
#PeterDutton #LNP
#Dickson #QLDpol
#DicksonDecides
#AUSVotes2025
#AUSpol 🦘
Australia's continuing abuse of asylum seekers is its eternal shame and a bottomless moral sinkhole. #Australia #auspol #refugees #asylumskeers #Nauru #ManusIsland #gulag #prison www.theguardian.com/world/2016/a...
Moral crossroads??? Australia left that behind decades ago, with both major political parties in agreement on the torment of asylum seekers. #Australia #auspol #refugees #asylumskeers #Nauru #ManusIsland #gulag #prison www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Award winning political cartoonist & activist Ali Dorani (A.K.A. "Mr Eaten Fish) spent years in Aus's harsh offshore prison on #ManusIsland. Now free in Stavanger, Norway in this interview with Roqe he tells his story. Well worth a listen! youtu.be/fouszH-6rs4 . #AmnestyManusNauru
'..to secure the backing of high-ranking PNG officials to enable it to run offshore processing on #ManusIsland.'
'after the company won #HomeAffairs contracts ultimately worth more than $500 million over four years to run offshore processing on Papua New Guinea’s #ManusIsland up to 2019.'
#Paladin #auspol
#DuttonFail
#Australia's Uniquely Harsh Asylum Seeker Policy - How Did It Come to This? #manusIsland #humanRights #refugees www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2017/1... via @abcreligion
#EvacuateNow #ManusIsland #AsylumSeekers @TurnbullMalcolm
Confirmation yet another #refugee has died on #ManusIsland, likely suicide. Absolutely preventable #AUS #humanRights www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/pm/manus-...
MPs are craven milksops desperate for your approval. Call them about #ManusIsland! #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/0...
#ManusIsland #asylumSeekers digging to find water as stand-off continues. #AUS #humanRights www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-02/manus-is... via @abcnews
#AUS #Lawyers Alliance backs report of “unacceptable lack of accountability & transparency” on #Nauru & #ManusIsland...
Email #Ferrovial to stop profiting from torture and abuse on #ManusIsland & #Nauru. #refugees #AUS #humanRights www.amnesty.org.au/act-now/ref-821-nauru-fe...
It's not normal or ok for all of us, just too many Australians, though 😞. #humanRights #manusisland www.theage.com.au/comment/i-dont-understan... via @theage
Gunfire, #refugees beaten on #ManusIsland. #humanRights #PNG #AUS www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/apr/...
MT @marshallcartoon: A fish added by an @procartoonists member - #AddAFish for #EatenFish #manusisland 🐠🍴
Australia to close controversial #ManusIsland detention centre, but adamant about keeping #asylumseekers out.
#ManusIsland detainees launch #HighCourt bid to be moved to #Australia. #humanRights #refugees www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-04/manus-is...
Animated #Film: Voices from #ManusIsland, where #AUS detains #AsylumSeekers. #humanRights #refugees www.theatlantic.com/video/index/477525/nowhe...
#ManusIsland #refugees likely to be relocated to #ChristmasIsland & #Nauru. #AUS #humanRights http://gu.com/p/4ty2m/stw
#PNG court finds #Australia's detention of #asylumSeekers on #ManusIsland is illegal. #humanRights www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/politic... via @smh
#PNG's Supreme Court rules detention of #asylumSeekers on #ManusIsland is illegal. #humanRights www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-26/png-cour... via @@abcnews
#ManusIsland #asylumSeeker writes to #UN in bid to access #healthcare. #humanRights #refugees #australia http://gu.com/p/42nde/tw
#Australian senator calls PM #Abbott on his heartless policies. #Auspol #ManusIsland #mining #homophobia #greens #NBN greensmps.org.au/content/speeches-parliam...
"Unprovoked aggression should have no place in our world" - quite right @TonyAbbottMHR it really shouldn't #ManusIsland
