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In Being in the Colonies: Singapore, Western Australia & Tasmania philosopher Dr Rohan Price follows the ontological fortunes of three British possessions throughout key moments in their history.
The formula applied across the empire is simple. Violence = freedom and convenience. Prevailing in convenience = Being. Proportional violence = operating within Fate and retaining Being. Excessive violence = a fall from Fate and a loss of Being. Resistance challenges convenience and can transform into Being, too.
To resist is great but to hold Being is Divine! Well, as close as we can get to divinity...
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16 episodes
since Aug. 11, 2026
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This episodes seeks Legality through the exceptions, exonerations and justifications in the body count and naming of the massacres in Singapore.
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We continue our exploration of ethical considerations of the Sook Ching massacre after the fall of Singapore in 1942.
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This work contains a formula for history: Being = Convenience within the Bounds of Fate The historical record centres not on Fate (the risk of losing Being by exceeding in order to and indulging in because I can). It is concerned, rather, with Legality and what behaviour it can explain or exonerate…
This is a short episode used to answer a basic but crucial question. Also, an opportunity to see if I can podcast from my phone. At least in Manila, if not Bicol?
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The experiences of a group of doctors who survived the Sook Ching massacre in Singapore (1942) are used to explore the difference between existing and Being in conditions of enemy occupation. Caught somewhere in the middle, were doctors survivors, resisters or Being-holders? Sartre is given descri…
The fall of Singapore occasioned the death of 5, 000-6, 000 Chinese civilian men who were shot by the Japanese Imperial Army in the Sook Ching massacre to prevent ongoing resistance in the former British colonial island state as Japanese forces surged southward. The question raised here: did the su…
This episode gets to grips with the rudiments of Being in the colonies: contest, convenience, and Fate in white settler and Indigenous experiences in WA. Amor Fati is rejected and the illusion of free will within a determinist schema is given further explanation.
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This shortish episode ponders how God belief and God-talk formed part of the free will and determinist explanations of Being in the Colonies.
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This episode begins with a brief recap of theories of Being. It then proceeds to an example drawn from the turn of the century cattle theft policing of the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
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The specifically colonial conditions as a backdrop to Being won by convenience. The post-colonial wash-up of old battles for Being. Camus and his renunciation of violence as a driver of history. The empirical claim of Being won through competition.
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