bLOGOS/HA HA: August 2010

31 August 2010

Conceptual Landscape

As the counting continues, the Independents are courted by the Big Two.

Meanwhile, the serious young reader below has put aside
L' AMUSANT in favour of LA POLITIQUE.

"I find this section much funnier", she says.

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25 August 2010

Five days after the Australian Federal Election and still no government. It appears we may have a Hung Parliament. (Curious phrase : hang > suspend > suspense) Some seats are yet to be declared. Counting continues.

What is known is that there are at least 3 or 4 Independents elected to the House of Representatives and the so-called Balance of Power is likely to be with them. (Last night, in a dream, a character declared: "Power is organised chaos".)

After the widely criticised puppetry of the two major parties and the Presidential-style performances of their lead players, along with the almost total disappearance of the others, this present indeterminacy comes as a breeze of unexpected possibility.

Cherchez le candidat (Find the candidate)

The Electoral Officer hasn't seen him.
The voters can't find him.
Can you?

( click image to enlarge )

Hang on, what's this?!

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HOW TO VOTE

The result of Saturday's federal election remains undetermined. As the vote counting continues, the two major parties have similar seat numbers and there are a handful of independents who are yet to decide how they will use their power.

"I do think here is a moment where we can explore the edges, and explore outside the box."

23 August 2010

New masks for old

The voting is done, the result is unclear.

21 August 2010

You live your life as if it's real

Over recent posts this blog has focused on the centrality of (reference to) reality in the 2010 Australian Federal electoral campaign. Today we vote.

Raimong Gaita wrote the following in this morning's AGE :

Before setting off to cast our votes we listen to some Leonard Cohen :

18 August 2010

that vision thing

.
Experience the big picture
may be the new
motto for the
National Gallery of Australia
see here

But that's not the view
when it comes to
Australian political vision

No time for big pictures
is the headline to Shaun Carney's article
in today's THE AGE.
read article here

Below
is that article's accompanying illustration
by Andrew Dyson

16 August 2010

Speech Bubble : I am the real thing!

"Real people don't need to say that they are real."

5 August 2010. Former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, referring to Julia Gillard's auto-re-production as "the real Julia".

Yes, but...

No matter what language you use, whether you translate or transliterate, YHWH's name means "I am that I am" and it directly points to His real name, which is the same in all languages.

from : YHWH True Name of our Creator ( here )

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Yahweh : Linguistic roots and meaning
The name is generally linked to a form of the Semitic word-stem HWY, conveying the idea of "being". (Semitic word-stems are groups of consonants around which vowels are arranged to form nouns and verbs). The verb "to be" plus the name of El, the chief god in the pantheon, could give rise to the forms yahweh-el ("He is El", "He shows himself as El") or the reverse, El-yawheh (El who shows himself) - the latter, but not the former, is found occasionally in the bible.[18] In Exodus [3:19] God himself, asked by Moses for his name, replies: "I am that I am...Say (to the Israelites), 'I Am has sent me to you'."[Exod. 3:13-16] A similar statement recurs throughout Leviticus, where God states with each law, "I am Yahweh." But despite looking back to the same verbal root HWY, these passages are essentially theological: they are intended not to explain the origin or meaning of the name, but to convey the image of a powerful God who will stay with and strengthen Israel.

Etienne Gilson equates YHWH with the verb "to be".

from Wikipedia : Yahweh ( here )

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Popeye : [singing]

I yam what I yam and I yam what I yam that I yam
And I got a lotta muscle and I only gots one eye
And I'll never hurt nobodys and I'll never tell a lie
Top to me bottom and me bottom to me top
That's the way it is 'til the day that I drop, what am I?
I yam what I yam.

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14 August 2010

REAL WORDS

There's an Australian Federal Election on and its propaganda, reporting and analysis are dominating the main media. All this as
I keep returning to consider this scenario.

Who would have imagined that REALITY would figure at the heart of a national election? Maybe in an ancient Athenian election, but in Australia 2010?

Of the two major parties vying for the peoples' endorsement, one (The Liberals, lead by Tony Abbott) presents itself as a would-be government of REAL ACTION. (motto 1. Stand up for Australia. Stand up for real action. motto 2. SUPPORT REAL ACTION). REALLY (sic) they just mean ACTION : the example they promote is WE WILL TURN THE BOATS (of asylum seekers) BACK.
Vote One : John Wayne for Australia 2010

The other major, Labor, is lead by Australia's first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. She has attained this position not via a general election but through an extraordinary internal party coup. She is seeking both a mandate for her party and to legitimate her own historical leadership position. When the first few weeks of Labor's formal election campaign went disastrously awry, Gillard declared she would now run her own campaign (not only did she gain Labor leadership through her conspiracy with "Labor's faceless men", as her opposition represents it, but now she was admitting to be the puppet of campaign strategists). She said she would now be, and we would now see, THE REAL JULIA.