Commentary examining neoliberalism, economic inequality, and the political forces shaping modern New Zealand society.
Comrades, to celebrate May Day on Sunday, The Daily Blog is hosting drinks and nibbles at Ika at 6pm. All our bloggers, political whanau and you our dear readers are invited along to mix, mingle and plot political coups.
The 5 Star Comedy Preview + Comedy Gala are the perfect shows to watch so that you get a feel for a comedian. If you can’t stand 5 minutes of them, then locked in for a 1 hour show will be a death wish. It’s not that any of the comedians these days are god awful, it’s just that there is so much very brilliant work out there that you don’t want to waste time on a show where you get 5 belly laughs when others are offering 50.
Associate Professor Nick Dyer-Witheford is giving a public talk titled “Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex”.
We are witness to scholarly disciplines in a sophisticated and generous performance in Fabricate, by Caitlin Davey, Cushla Roughan, Lydia Connolly-Hiatt, Rodney Tyrelland and Reece Adams. Using innovation to plug gaps in the budget and delving into a collective visual history, it soothes, and it transfers, in its dealings with surfaces.
Helen’s colonial mentality of a straight-forward and uncontested notion of European supremacy is a typically white New Zealand combination of studied ignorance and hypocrisy. The plucky little nation, the Pacific nation.
Ali Mau hosts Table Talk Tuesday 26 April – Cannabis: Beyond Prohibition
If you have never been to a comedy festival, this is the one to try.
Darren Watson, the genius behind the greatest satire this country has ever birthed is back in court next month to face the Electoral Commission’s appeal of the PLanet Key HC ruling. In the meantime, here is his new song…
WHITE/OTHER is an exploration of identity. It blows apart the re-presentation of Asianness and attempts to fix it back together in a sticky, overflowing mess.