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Jason Goroncy
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gubba | musician | academic

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Some New Publications: Attention, Theology, and the Poetics of Presence

Hary Nankin, Platanus luna, 2002. Eight toned gelatin silver shadowgram films paired in four sandwiches each inside a Mylar envelope. Film pairs are 19 x 71 cm, 10 x 72 cm, 19 x 71 cm and 23 x 71 cm respectively. Arrangement…
Some New Publications: Attention, Theology, and the Poetics of Presence
Hary Nankin, Platanus luna, 2002. Eight toned gelatin silver shadowgram films paired in four sandwiches each inside a Mylar envelope. Film pairs are 19 x 71 cm, 10 x 72 cm, 19 x 71 cm and 23 x 71 cm respectively. Arrangement variable. Unique objects. I'm pleased to share four recent pieces that have found their way into print in recent months, each exploring different facets of what it means to pay attention—to art, to theology, to culture, and to the world after certainty has departed.
jasongoroncy.com
Some New Publications: Attention, Theology, and the Poetics of Presence

Hary Nankin, Platanus luna, 2002. Eight toned gelatin silver shadowgram films paired in four sandwiches each inside a Mylar envelope. Film pairs are 19 x 71 cm, 10 x 72 cm, 19 x 71 cm and 23 x 71 cm respectively. Arrangement…
Some New Publications: Attention, Theology, and the Poetics of Presence
Hary Nankin, Platanus luna, 2002. Eight toned gelatin silver shadowgram films paired in four sandwiches each inside a Mylar envelope. Film pairs are 19 x 71 cm, 10 x 72 cm, 19 x 71 cm and 23 x 71 cm respectively. Arrangement variable. Unique objects. I'm pleased to share four recent pieces that have found their way into print in recent months, each exploring different facets of what it means to pay attention—to art, to theology, to culture, and to the world after certainty has departed.
jasongoroncy.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 AM
On #teaching: “While critical thinking is an important skill, what teachers teach … is enthusiasm and a love of #learning. The great teachers are the lovers of learning. What they teach, above all, is the experience of discovery.” – @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social medium.com/amor-mundi/o...
On Teaching
by Roger Berkowitz
medium.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Thrilled to have been invited to review Paul Mitchell’s latest book, *High Spirits*. #poetry

You can read my review here:

textjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/1465...
TEXT Reviews October 2025 | Published in TEXT
By Jen Webb, Susan Fealy & 14 more. We review books by Hecq, Beveridge, Kirkpatrick, Vanderslice, Walker, Shepherdson, Long and Hayward, Saunders and Blackwood, Hanscombe, Foulcher, Kelen, Fagan, Salo...
textjournal.scholasticahq.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
‘merica
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“Creating is about experimentation, about finding new methods & mediums. ... Creating is also abt failure & slowly closing th gap between intention & ability. There are no lessons 2 be learned from outsourcing that process.” – Myke Bartlett

#creativity #art #ai

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When my kids wrote a song using AI, all I could think was: you missed the fun part | Myke Bartlett
The arrival of AI is a chance to remind kids that the joy of creativity is not in what you made, but in the process of making it
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“In the occupied West Bank, settler terrorism is nothing but a tool by the government to pursue de-facto annexation.” – Ofer Cassif

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the eyes of the world are on Gaza, Israeli settlers in the West Bank still behave with impunity | Ofer Cassif
As the harvest season begins, attacks on Palestinian farmers and their land are spiralling. The words of peace following the Gaza ceasefire ring hollow, says Knesset member Ofer Cassif
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Thinking of all Jewish people on this solemn day. Towards shalom.
October 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Because I'm opposed to #genocide, because we need our government to sanction #Israel, establish a two-way arms embargo, and advocate for UN peacekeepers, and because my faith calls me to hope, I recently participated in the creation of this simple video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4wV...

#Gaza
Churches & Clergy video 2025
YouTube video by Palestine Israel Ecumenical Network (PIEN)
www.youtube.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Omer Bartov on #Gaza #genocide and Israel’s history of occupation.

www.aljazeera.com/video/upfron...
Omer Bartov on Gaza genocide and Israel’s history of occupation
Marc Lamont Hill speaks with Omer Bartov about how Israel’s war in Gaza became genocide.
www.aljazeera.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“We shouldn’t be surprised if, very soon, there are no more democracies, or very few. #Democracy wasn’t a thing for a long time. … We’re now in a situation where India, Russia, the United States and China are not democratic countries.”

Jason Stanley on #fascism

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
A US fascism expert’s warning to Australia: ‘You guys are probably next’
The US’s slide towards authoritarianism is part of a global trend, says professor and fascism expert Jason Stanley. And distant Australia, far from being immune, is uniquely vulnerable
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Reposted by Jason Goroncy
To my friends experiencing newfound conviction about speaking up against political violence: Excellent, let's keep going. This is Rev. David Black, a Presbyterian minister, being attacked by cowards in masks while protesting political violence against immigrants in Chicago over the weekend.
September 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
September 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Gaza #Solidarity #Concert

Please join the #Jewish Council for a night of fundraising and music in solidarity with the people of #Gaza and all #Palestinians in their struggles.

#Melbourne

tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event...
Gaza Solidarity Concert
Solidarity Fundraiser - Concert for Gaza PLAYING TIMES:  SHOW RUNS FROM 7PM 'TIL 8:30PM  Please join the Jewish Council for a night of fundraising and music in solidarity with the people of Gaza and...
tickets.cornerhotel.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Reposted by Jason Goroncy
Today's final approval of the North West Shelf is a climate, economic, and energy security disaster.

Australia Institute analysis shows the 45-year expansion is equivalent to building 12 new coal power stations.

@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
September 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM
An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of #Meanjin

openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

@savemeanjin.bsky.social @mupublishing.bsky.social
An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin
openletter.earth
September 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"Of course it struggled to be viable – it’s a literary magazine. ... The point is their cultural value."

– Ben Walter, on the MUP's axing of #Meanjin on "purely financial grounds."

In 2025, MUP paid three managers $438,544.

#literature

www.theguardian.com/books/commen...
The end of Meanjin after 85 years is as sad as it is infuriating | Ben Walter
MUP says it is ‘no longer viable’ to make the literary magazine – but almost none of them are financially viable. That’s not their purpose or value
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The ‘flower inside the fire’. – Ahmed Muin Abu Amsha on making #music in #gaza

youtu.be/MtodtEKmYSE?...
Meet the Gaza music teacher behind viral drone song | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
youtu.be
September 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
18,430 kids. We will speak their names.

#gazavigil #melbourne
September 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
‘Defining #dingoes as a distinct species/subspecies wd allow gov’ts 2 differentiate them from domestic #dogs in laws, policies & conservation programs, & align western science w/ First Nations knowledge’. – KM Cairns, B Smith, @euanritchie.bsky.social & T Newsome

theconversation.com/dingoes-are-...
Dingoes are not domestic dogs – new evidence shows these native canines are on their own evolutionary path
New research suggests dingoes are distinct enough to have their own scientific name. If this is accepted, it will have far-reaching consequences
theconversation.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“Forests of Eucalyptus regnans – one of the tallest tree species in the world – lose about 9% of their #trees for every degree of warming.”

#forests #climatechange

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Victoria’s mountain ash forests could lose a quarter of ‘giant’ trees as temperatures rise
Eucalyptus regnans – which regularly reach 60 to 80m tall – lose about 9% of their trees for every degree of warming, research finds
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“It’s like being asked to train up your own replacement – for free.” – @patrickstokes.com on #GenAI and #artists

www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...
AI and artists: will anyone care when human creativity is usurped?
Perhaps the scariest thing about AI and artists isn’t that it will do creators out of their jobs but that no-one will care.
www.artshub.com.au
August 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I am grateful to have contributed to this collection of essays, edited by @dnewheiser.bsky.social & Lexi Eikelboom, which explores the spiritual significance of art practice. The book is now available via Open Access with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
www.bloomsburycollections.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM