Piers Kelly
pierskelly.bsky.social
Piers Kelly
@pierskelly.bsky.social
Linguistic anthropologist at the University of New England, Armidale, and the Australian Museum, Sydney.

Graphic codes in Australia, Southeast Asia, West Africa.

Researcher at the Australian Message Stick Project
https://messagesticks.com.au/
This is next-level masks-off insanity. I really hope you’re doing ok! Love and solidarity to trans folks in the US and everywhere
September 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Wait, what? Don't all the studies point to *boomers* being more likely to fall for misinformation?

I'm all for civic education but it seems the kids are alright
July 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
(Even Stanner's ahistorical fallacy is kinda defensible. He confuses a shared value of social equilibrium, or 'abidingness', with actual historical stasis. The Native Title era has a been a good corrective to that view.)
July 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
It's also a nice counter-point to essentialising discourses of incommensurability when it comes to Aboriginal communities.
These representations are weirdly appealing to activists, per Spivak, but all too often they end up reproducing exoticising colonial stereotypes in the guise of 'truthtelling'.
July 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
He is genuinely awed by the Dreaming, and expresses this awe with humility and poetic subtlety.

He certainly understood his assumed reader in his deliberate use of Western metaphors and idioms to clarify an otherwise head-spinning concept. Namely, the 'everywhen' (Tjukurrpa, Alcheringa etc).
July 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
If you set aside the structuralist fallacy that Australian Aboriginal societies are somehow ahistorical, it remains an excellent example of cultural translation.
July 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Thanks!
May 25, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Amazing. How do you do those little leafy outlines, so that they retain a perfect shape as the loaf is expanding
?
May 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Good morning! Also rising early these days, perfect time to write
May 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
As much as Windschuttle was a loser, a fanatic and a racist, those qualities are found in people all around us and it's absurd to 'debate' them.

I think what's WAY more urgent is to throw light on the process by which these personalities are laundered into respectability. /end
April 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
But at critical moments they get elevated by powerful morons, and they can cause extraordinary damage. 2/
April 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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hello moudhy sorry to interrupt but did you see the cuneiform nail art

www.instagram.com/share/BAJktv...
April 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM