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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">As part of the MFCO Seminar Series 2025, we are thrilled to be joined by Dr Sean McMorrow, Zooming in from Melbourne next Tuesday 15<sup>th</sup>
April at 3pm (1pm AEST). Come join us in Burns 4 or via Zoom link to hear Sean’s fascinating talk.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The Perplexing Life and Afterlife of Arthur Desmond</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">This seminar emerges from an accidental archival digression to trace the mysterious life of Arthur Desmond. Perhaps one of the few to have taken the pipeline from labour organiser,
libertarian socialist, and Māori rights advocate, to anarchist, poet, and political agitator, turned Nietzschean white supremacist, racial primitivist and anarcho-individualist. At all times an ardent anticapitalist and steadfast racist. A ‘friend’ of Te Kooti,
Banjo Patterson and the freethinker radicals of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>fin de siècle</i> Chicago, his story is one that spans Aotearoa, the federating colony of Australia, and underbelly of the USA. He is still largely an unknown figure
despite the significance of his subterranean cultural influence in the 20th Century: posthumously, he was a major influence on Anton LaVey (Church of Satan) and the US white supremacist movement. His influence has not yet been given full due owing to the fact
that his major screed, ‘Might is Right’, was published under the pseudonym of ‘Ragnar Redbeard’. This seminar outlines his story through what could be considered his media and publishing history, and I will explore the significance of his appropriation now
through the shifting modes of ideological and technological publishing networks.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Sean McMorrow</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> teaches in the department of Media & Communications, University of Melbourne.
He is editor of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy</i>, and author of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Power to Assume Form: Cornelius Castoriadis and Regimes of Historicity</i> (Lexington
Books, 2023) and co-edited volume<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Marcel Gauchet and the Crisis of Democratic Politics</i> (Routledge, 2022).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Media, Film & Communication | Pāpāho, Whitiāhua, Pārokoroko<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Latest publications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Overell, R. (2024). ‘<i>Don’t Worry Darling</i>: The anxious question of what women want after #MeToo’.
<i>Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society</i> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Millar, I., Nicholls, B., Overell, R., & Tutt, D. (2023). Power and politics in Adam Curtis'
<i>Can't get you out of my head</i>: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.),
<i><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223"><span style="color:#0563C1;font-style:normal">Psychoanalysis and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed</span></a></i>.
(pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Overell, R. (2022).
<a href="https://lackorg.com/2022/08/26/methodological-masturbation/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Methodological Masturbation</span></a>.
<i>LACK: punctual musings</i>. 26<sup>th</sup> August.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">mfco-staff-bounces@lists.otago.ac.nz <mfco-staff-bounces@lists.otago.ac.nz> on behalf of Rachel Billington <rachel.billington@otago.ac.nz><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 8 April 2025 at 10:35</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">AM<br>
<b>To: </b>MFCO Staff <mfco-staff@lists.otago.ac.nz>, mfco-postgrads@list.otago.ac.nz <mfco-postgrads@list.otago.ac.nz>, Nicola Firth <nicola.firth@otago.ac.nz>, Sean McMorrow <sean.mcmorrow@unimelb.edu.au><br>
<b>Subject: </b>MFCO Seminar Series: Sean McMorrow (Melbourne) Tuesday 15th April 3pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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