Protected: Long Paddock for Southerly 81.1: Ireland and Other Islands
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Long Paddock for Southerly 81.1: Ireland and Other Islands
This issue is a Festschrift for Professor Elizabeth McMahon, to honour her service to Southerly as its editor from 2008 to 2022. Alongside her dedication to Southerly, Professor McMahon has also long served the Irish community in Australia in myriad ways. It is fitting then that this issue also focusses on Ireland, engaging with our contemporary understandings of Ireland and Irishness and their entanglements with Australian life. This issue asks, what does it mean to be Irish, or of Irish heritage, or to be interested in Irishness, while living and working in Australia on unceded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
Agreeable book reviewing is a dangerous, vapid “epidemic of niceness”
Words || Jack Cameron Stanton Over the weekend I visited my parent’s house for brunch with the Lebanese side of the family, and in order to cater for political differences I strolled to the service station and purchased The Weekend Australian and Sydney Morning Herald. Over a breakfast of fresh manoush and lahembajin, the Lebs scoffed at two wildly different headlines—‘SCOMO LEADS A NEW GENERATION’ vs ‘MORRISON SNATCHES TOP JOB’ (I’m sure you can guess which is which)—while I slid out the review sections of each paper to examine them. The Weekend Australian offered six pages of substantial book reviews,…
Farewell, Bourdain: why I stopped being a vegetarian
Before I tell you about how Anthony Bourdain made me question my long-standing vegetarianism, I need to get something off my chest.
A world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning: the seduction of augmented reality
Words || Jack Cameron Stanton “It’s possible that our further abandonment of reality for simulation is creating a new degree of integration in which the realness of reality is not only elusive but altogether unattainable.” Already we live in a digital age where competing versions of reality are trying to seduce us. The time for apocalyptic fires to rain from the sky has come and gone, and our world has fused ineluctably with simulations of reality. To write this blog post I interviewed a friend of mine who works at an augmented reality firm in Silicon Valley, who didn’t want…