January 2011
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The opening of MONA in Hobart, 21 January. Excessive, spectacular, gothic – a new kind of museum for Australia – a museum with the stamp of its maker on every wall.
“For the issue that concerns us is not who has the power to tell the story –...”
– Jonathan Lear, Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
Summer – a time to read indeed. The best thing I read was Jonathan Lear’s Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (2006). It is a wonderful book – a moving work of philosophical anthropology.