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Nick Irving

Nick Irving

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Dec 19, 2025

Banning protest in NSW has nothing to do with antisemitism, and everything to do with control

New laws to ban assemblies in NSW show that the NSW Government is more interested in the raw exercise of power than in democratic debate.

Nick Irving

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Jun 25, 2024

I have a tiny factory manager in my head

and that’s exactly how the school system wants it

Nick Irving

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Mar 27, 2024

The 25mm problem

Phone photography and tourism

The 25mm problem

Nick Irving

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Dec 20, 2022

“No More Hiroshimas”

The strange politics of memorialising the A-Bomb

“No More Hiroshimas”

Nick Irving

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Jul 13, 2022

Five things survival games need to stop doing

I spent most of lockdown playing survival games with friends. After two years of the most intensive game playing of my life, here’s my…

Five things survival games need to stop doing

Nick Irving

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May 12, 2022

Paywalls and Peer Review

How the Academy does and does not govern truth

Paywalls and Peer Review

Nick Irving

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Mar 26, 2022

Intersectionality and Input

What happens when ideas escape the ivory tower

Intersectionality and Input

Nick Irving

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Nov 3, 2021

We need to Memorialise the Pandemic

The case for a COVID Memorial Day

We need to Memorialise the Pandemic

Nick Irving

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Oct 3, 2021

Evangelion, Anime, and ‘Sexualisation’ as Moral Panic

The grey area between objectifying text and sexualising viewer

Evangelion, Anime, and ‘Sexualisation’ as Moral Panic

Nick Irving

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Mar 31, 2021

“They” will never let you stop working

but who are “they,” exactly?

“They” will never let you stop working

Nick Irving

Nick Irving

PhD in Modern History and government functionary. One-time historian of peace and protest, now researching and writing about work.

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