Southerly 79.3: The Way We Live Now (Special Digital Edition)

Description

Southerly 79.3

Special Open Access Digital Edition

The Way We Live Now is a special issue of Southerly edited by Melissa Hardie and Kate Lilley. In the spirit of Lauren Berlant, this issue tracks “the unfolding activity of the contemporary moment”: “a stretch of time in which one moves around with a sense that the world is at once intensely present and enigmatic, such that the activity of living demands both a wandering absorptive awareness and a hypervigilance that collects material that might help to clarify things” (Berlant, Cruel Optimism 4). The diverse work offered here, in Southerly’s first online-only issue, gathers “Australian” writing produced in many different places and circumstances. Heterogenous and singular in its contents, the layered contiguity of digital publication optimistically promotes the lateral and multitemporal formation of the commons, true to the big ambitions and longevity of this venerable “little magazine.” Our contributors dwell in and on the permeability of extreme and ordinary states, temporal confusion and disturbance, bringing genre to bear on forms of technological, linguistic, and psychical mediation, exposing Berlantian “impasse” in myriad ways. We are grateful to Create NSW for a grant to pay contributors at a particularly disastrous time for arts funding. Most of all, we are grateful to the brilliant contributors who have entrusted us with their work. We loved putting this issue together. We hope our readers love it too.

This special edition is entirely open access and free. You may read it online, download and, if you wish, print and share it. Going through the checkout process will enable you to download the entire print-ready PDF at no cost. If you prefer to browse and dip in and out, follow the links below.

*Lauren Berlant. Cruel Optimism. Duke University Press, 2011.

Contents

INTRODUCTION: Melissa Hardie and Kate Lilley

CONTENTS (Click for a printable PDF of the Contents pages, otherwise follow the links below to go direct to an item)

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

COVER: Catherine Vidler: Lost Matchstick Sonnet 16 (2021), Photograph, 14 cm x 16 cm

*Digital Edition, please note:

This item is the FREE digital edition of Southerly, a PDF file suitable for screen reading or home/office printing (3MB).

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