Ancient & modern : time, culture and indigenous philosophy / Stephen Muecke.

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Publicado: Sydney : UNSW, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Sect. 1. Time
  • 1. 'Once I knew how the world worked'
  • 2. When, or where, did modern Australian culture begin?
  • 3. Why I am not a historian
  • 4. The return to place
  • 5. History's poison blanket
  • 6. Performing life
  • 7. Morning coffee with Clarrie
  • 8. Devastation
  • Sect. 2. Country
  • 1. How do you get Alice Springs?
  • 2. '...a burly salt water woman of about my own age'
  • 3. Towards the centre
  • 4. 'OK if we camp here again?'
  • 5. Landscape and country
  • 6. Back to Rottnest
  • 7. A character called '62 Pontiac Parisienne'
  • 8. A space for ethics
  • Sect. 3. Technology
  • 1. 'He thinks, he desires'
  • 2. Indigenous capitalism
  • 3. Travelling the subterranean river of blood
  • 4. Life, abundant life
  • 5. Boxer deconstructionist
  • 6. Indigenous modernities
  • 7. The religion of technology
  • 8. 'I don't think they invented the wheel' : new right assimilationism
  • Sect. 4. Philosophy
  • 1. Philosophy of the other continent
  • 2. Philosophical magic
  • 3. Nomads
  • 4. Secret English
  • 5. Language as singular or general
  • 6. Feelings of power
  • 7. The other continent
  • 8. Philosophy from afar.