Graphology Materialism 34: reportage
Public submissions concerning Hancock Iron Ore’s
amended application for the rights to use a helipad
built into the roof of their new headquarters
on Ord Street are open until the end of the month.
It’s now proposed that the chopper will track Thomas Street,
edging Kaarta Koomba which the imperial powers
call Kings Park, and that it (according to the applicants)
won’t sound much louder than a kitchen appliance —
part of a promo package aiming to get Perth City
counsellors onside. A previous Lord Mayor
‘emceed a private event’ for Gina Rinehart,
far-right poetaster of colonialism and mining.
That fact is potentially incidental to the issue
at hand, but an aviation-fuel stench hangs
over the process. At present, the billionaire
is hosting Pauline Hanson at a resort in Sicily,
just after the far-right leader spoke to a far-right
British podcaster and lamented the passing
of the White Australia Policy. Contemporary
materialists are at pains to distance
philosophical materialism from rampant
consumerist materialist values. They insist
that everything that is relates to the occupation
of space — directly or indirectly. If pitted against
religious mysticism, then ‘the material’ must be a ‘radical’
departure. Likely, they don’t understand how certain
mining entrepreneurs in Australia work materialism
through settlerism to suit a consumerist agenda.
How they differentiate between spirituality
by identity and creed, the value placed on
God’s relationship to an amenable historiography?
When down in the city, we stay near where the Bell 429
helicopter hopes — intends — to land, settle, take off. Those blades
will so easily slaughter words, lines, stanzas from the ecology
of thought, and interrupt patterns of wildlife
just managing to hang on despite the city’s pressure.
Oh, and ‘Sturt desert pea’ shades will waver over windows,
themselves chopped by shadow while filtering the sun.
John Kinsella
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