John Cotter

1 month ago | northwestweekly.com.au | John Cotter

General News OPINION | By JOHN COTTERMount Isa has long been the beating heart of Queensland’s mining sector. It is a powerhouse of economic activity that has supported jobs, businesses, and entire communities across the North West Minerals Province. Yet, as global competition for investment in mining exploration and development intensifies, the need for bold action to secure the future prosperity of this region is vital.

Jan 3, 2025 | nytimes.com | John Cotter

As a critic, Mr. Lodge positioned himself directly between England and continental Europe. He employed structuralism (the play of signs, the role of binary oppositions), post-structuralism (a hunt for hidden complexities and contradictions), formalism (a search for what is unique in works of literature, what's intrinsically "literary," and what's common to all such texts) and empiricism (seeing plainly what's before one's face).

Sep 24, 2024 | verfassungsblog.de | John Cotter

Contrary to cartoonish portrayals of Ursula von der Leyen as a latter-day Caesar, who may be illegitimately presidentialising the Commission, the current Commission President is merely furthering a more centralised vision of the institution that is implicit in the extent of her organisational powers under Article 17(6) TEU.

Jul 7, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Bill Knott |John Cotter

In March 1948, Look magazine sent 19-year-old Stanley Kubrick to Kane County, Illinois, to document Mooseheart, an orphanage 40 miles west of Chicago. Kubrick was sent because he was young and wouldn’t cause much distraction while taking photographs of the children, some of whom were nearly his age.

May 4, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | John Cotter

Cotter first experiences hearing loss in his 30s. “I couldn’t hear the ocean. I couldn’t hear bird calls or traffic,” he reflects. “All I could hear was a roar inside my head.” It’s a sound unlike being underwater; it’s more akin to whistles, pitched tones, “a ringing noise,” and clicks, eventually culminating into something like the rumble of a lawnmower. As he loses his hearing, he also loses music, his love for which is intense, eclectic, and vast.