AustCyber promised to professionalise cybersecurity, took public money, and delivered nothing. Now, the same actors return under a new banner, asking for more. This essay exposes the disavowed failure, the absence of accountability, and the quiet repackaging of a still-unproven idea.
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In this essay, I analyze selected texts on professionalisation to expose the power structures they sustain. My intent is twofold: to invite those shaping these bodies to reflect on how their language may silence or sideline others - and to equip those who feel excluded with a sharper lens to see how language itself can become a quiet instrument of control.
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A critical reading, Žižek suggests, works like a short circuit—by connecting unlikely texts or ideas, especially pairing major works with marginal or disavowed ones, it shocks us into seeing what the original text disavows or cannot articulate. This method doesn’t reduce meaning but reveals its hidden assumptions and ideological blind spots.
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Nothing says “we’re here to help small businesses” quite like charging $95 to read the rules - and threatening to sue if you share them. This is the story of how one closed standard gave birth to an open-source revolt that refuses to play by its rules.
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In Emancipation After Hegel, Todd McGowan refutes Ayn Rand’s use of the Law of Identity as the foundational axiom underpinning her political defense of laissez-faire capitalism.
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