There’s an urban wasteland walking distance from the Melbourne central business district. No, not Elizabeth Street, but an in-between area of the city – you’ve left the city going north west but haven’t yet reached the suburbs. You drive over it on viaducts, or travel through it on metro train lines. It’s an …

The Maniototo is a region made of plains and mountains in the South Island of New Zealand. As names go, through to the early 1900s the Maniototo used to be known as Central Otago, during which modern day Central Otago (Cromwell, Queenstown, Wanaka, …) was known as The Interior.

A rough map was made in 1852, with …

Normalised language is loose convention across prose, narrative form, formality, and conciseness in text we write. Academic papers, professional writing, advertising, group chats, and workplace chats all have different forms of normalisation. Texts can also be normalised by the way they look – if you see a two-column LaTeX document your mind recognises that it’s an academic paper before you’ve even read a word.

In Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, Alexei Yurchak …

It’s the middle of summer and the golden tussock has overtaken its shorter agricultural cousin. Back down the Manuherikia Valley, bands of green grass run up the sides of the Dunstan Range. Productive Land they call it. Indeed it is, but visually that splash of green is at odds with the golden …