Syria Eats Itself
Countering the logic of the war economy in Syria
Articles by lyndon
Do You Believe In Second Chances?
The Sundance TV series Rectify takes the difficulties of faith, forgiveness and family seriously
From The Hood : Illegal in an Illegal Land
Reading the fine print, except it’s not actually fine at all.
The Complicatist : Hip Hop’s Vanishing Sense of Community
A collective music based on allegiance to the ‘hood now belongs to remote and isolated solo stars
The Complicatist : Frankie Cosmos, and other sounds of whiteness
Some musical journeys in the worlds of white people….
***** Werewolf 57, September 2015 *****
The September 2015 edition of Werewolf
Safety In Numbers
New Zealand’s new export industry : predicting child abuse
Uber Dreaming
How Uber CEO Travis Kalanick drove right over Stephen Colbert, and a few inconvenient truths
Flying With Food Allergies
For those with allergies, air travel can be a real hazard
‘Disruption’ Is For Losers
Its time to retire the corporate world’s favourite buzzword
Panic in Detroit
Why David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows is a teenage sensation.
Coney Island, Baby
Under the pier, down by the sea…
Searching For The White Wail
White hipsters, Art Pepper etc
From The Hood : We Called Him Tortoise, Because He Deports Us
Australia and Other Nonsense
The Complicatist: Bradford Cox of Deerhunter
Stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive
The Complicatist Pt 2: Galesburg, Revisited
Holding aloft a flickering torch for John Darnielle’s older stuff
Pitch Perfect
How Pope Francis is selling the world on the Catholic Church
Climate of Opportunity
An interview with the Greens new co-leader, James Shaw
Secret Justice
How should the secret evidence gathered by security agencies be handled by New Zealand courts?
In The Temple of Paul Rudd
Niceness can be a career option…
At The Crossroads
The Democratic Party (once again) tries to engage with the realities of ordinary Americans
Lawyers Don’t Surf
Point Break : Is there any point to a reboot of one of the greatest action movies of the 1990s?
From the Hood : Where Engels Fears To Tread
History, In A Grain Of Salt
Talent To Burn
Bearing mute witness to America’s Got Talent, and to the urge to compete
The Complicatist : London O’Connor, and others…
Songs of innocence, regret, anxiety, failure and punishing ennui…
***** Werewolf 55, May 2015 *****
The May 2015 Edition of Werewolf
What’s To Commemorate?
The Making of Gallipoli into a Marketable Memory
The Politics of Vaccination
Is the Key government pandering to people who oppose vaccination on principle?
Artificial Intelligence: Real Anxieties?
Is the film Ex Machina – and its depiction of Artificial Intelligence – a sign of a world soon to come?