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Victims and Vixens
Recurrent gendered tropes in Helen Garner’s ‘non-fiction’ In this article, I draw out the parallels between Helen Garner’s highly contentious The First Stone (1995) and her most recent work, Joe Cinque’s Consolation (2004). At the narrative core of both these works of ‘non-fiction’ are women, constructed as manipulative and destructive, who are charged with annihilating [...]
Masquerading as Subversion?
On 31 October each year, the population of Derry takes to the streets to celebrate Halloween in a way that seems difficult to reconcile with its ‘troubled’ history. This paper examines Halloween in Derry in the contexts of Irish folk customs and social history, and suggests that the possibility of carnival is not only a [...]
In the Statedness of Denmark
Itzik Basman.Futility as Tragedy: an Interpretation of Hamlet. (2004) Mr. Basman’s study of Hamlet certainly does not hurry one to happy reflections on our current situation, where many of us, like Barnardo and Francisco in the play’s first scene, are now standing on the battlements playing lookout. Of course, the object of our watch, the [...]
Issue Intro: Disastrologies by Frederick Young
To the memory of Jacques Derrida “More than other writers, Marx wrote in the conjuncture.” The Philosophy of Marx, Etienne Balibar “Disastrologes”-would be the title, do you like it? I think it suits us well. One day you were walking in front of me without knowing me, without looking at me. I fell on you. [...]
Location – Translation – Movement: Alphonso Lingis
Trust Alphonso Lingis, University of Minnesota Press, 2004 “The body is inserted in the materialist field of the eternal, it leads the eternal itself…in the form of a praxis of time. In the first place, the corporeal reflection is thus an ontological immersion that activates the eternal through its opening on the edge of being, [...]
Time To Go Away: On The Beauty of Mark Eitzel Rev
The late, great Joe Strummer once penned a song (“Diggin’ the New,” from 1999′s Rock Art and the X-Ray Style) celebrating the emergence of new sexual identities, admitting that he was a bit slow to catch on to the changes that were taking place around him. “Oh, took me a long time to get it,” [...]
More Than Many?
Paolo Virno, A Grammar of the Multitude, trans. Isabella Bertoletti, James Cascaito, Andrea Casson (New York: Semiotext(e), 2004). Paolo Virno’s A Grammar of the Multitude was published in 2004, at the same time that Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire appeared. While both Virno and Negri come [...]
Brendan McCall
Giving in the Face of Disaster What does it mean to give? For me, the answer is fairly simple. This Christmas, I bought my brother a number of 80′s television shows that have been released on DVD. I know for a fact that he loves all the shows, so my gift was greatly appreciated. In the [...]
Ali Gray
Ali Gray Questioning the Lines Every cloud has a silver lining. That being said, I need to warn that sometimes I resort to clichés. I’m not trying to be redundant, I promise you that. It’s just that when I try to be creative, especially with something large scale, I start comparing incredibly mundane objects to [...]
Self Portraits