Georg Forster, Nicholas Thomas, and Oliver Berghof, A Voyage Around the World (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000).
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “Interview: Forced Closures,” L’Internationale, June 26, 2015 →.
Ibid.
Angela Mitropoulos, Contract and Contagion (New York: Minor Compositions, 2012), 92.
The entire sorry chronicle of Meston’s tour—which ended in his abandoning around Melbourne the group that he had taken from various north Queensland peoples—is catalogued in the extensively illustrated publication Wild Australia: Meston’s Wild Australia Show 1892–1893, eds. Michael Aird, Mandana Mapar, and Paul Memmott (Southport: Keeaira Press, 2015).
Fabian’s term for this is a “denial of coevalness,” or the denial of being together in time, by which the ethnographic Other is regarded as static and unchanging, and thus available to be studied. Johannes Fabian, Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002).
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011), 36.
Élisée Reclus, 1871.
McKenzie Wark, “The Vectoralist Class,” in “Supercommunity,” special issue, e-flux journal 65 (May 2015) →; and Wark, “The Vectoralist Class, Part II,” e-flux journal 70 (February 2016) →. Rosalind C. Morris, “Accidental Histories, Post-Historical Practice?: Re-reading Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance in the Actuarial Age,” Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 83, no. 3 (Summer 2010): 581–624. Lorraine Daston et al., How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013).
Johann Heinrich von Thünen, cited in David Harvey, “The Spatial Fix: Hegel, von Thünen and Marx,” Antipode, vol. 14, no. 3 (1981): 3.
Ibid.
“Secret Instructions to Lieutenant Cook July 30, 1768,” Museum of Australian Democracy →.
Denise Ferreira da Silva, The Racial Event: That Which Happens Without Time, forthcoming 2016.
For the influence of Australian 2006 workfare platforms such as the “Mutual Obligation Initiative” and “Welfare to Work” on UK policy, see S. Wright, G. Marston, and C. McDonald, “The Role of Non-Profit Organisations in the Mixed Economy of Welfare-to-Work in the UK and Australia,” Social Policy & Administration, vol. 45, no. 3 (2011): 299–318. Layering this with 2006 legislation anticipating the Northern Territory intervention with the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act 2006 (ALRAA) summarized as “the principal objectives of this Bill are to improve access to Aboriginal land for development, especially mining,” see Rebecca Stringer, “A Nightmare of the Neocolonial Kind: Politics of Suffering in Howard’s Northern Territory Intervention,” Borderlands, vol. 6, no. 2 (2007) →.
For a report on the Lampedusa “hotspot” current at the time of writing, see G. Garelli and M. Tazzioli, “The EU hotspot approach at Lampedusa,” Open Democracy, February 26, 2016 →.
Unimin Australia Limited v State of Queensland (2010) QCA 169. Supreme Court of Queensland transcript →.
This essay was composed within the framework of the art commissioning and research project Frontier Imaginaries and the forthcoming launch exhibition “No Longer at Ease” at the Institute of Modern Art (May 14—July 9) and “The Life of Lines” at the QUT Art Museum (May 14–August 14). Thanks are made to Denise Ferreira da Silva’s supervisory X-ray specs; to Anjalika Sagar in first drawing attention to Don’t Touch the White Woman and the gentrification of the soul; to Michael Aird in reading the economies of frontier photography; and to Rachel O’Reilly for early pointers toward and beyond the Marxian horizon.