Ways of BeingAnthony Macris reviews two books that afford an intimate glimpse into the formation of two intellectuals, George Kouvaros and Nikos Papastergiadis. In their stories, Macris sees the pathos and prodigiousness of the changes wrought by modernity.Anthony Macris17 Feb. 2025
Conflicts of InterestWhere are the boundaries of a subculture? Who decides? In his review of Cher Tan’s book of essays Peripathetic, Max Easton addresses the conflicts and convergences of interest that make up life and culture outside, or indeed under, the mainstream....Max Easton17 Feb. 2025
Prosthetic DesirerDrawing on the work of Andrea Long Chu and Jacques Lacan, Luara Karlson-Carp argues that the allure of AI consists not so much in a fantasy of limitless satisfaction as in a dream of abdicating desire for and in an increasingly dislocated world.Luara Karlson-Carp13 Dec. 2024
GHOSTED!John Mateer reviews Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson’s ambitious attempt to re-write Australian art history from a transnational perspective, illuminating the conceptual and categorial dilemmas that have beset the discipline since its inception.John Mateer12 Dec. 2024
‘So far in blood’Reviewing Nicholas Jose’s The Idealist, Patrick Mullins chronicles Australia’s inglorious involvement in East Timor, highlighting the importance of fiction in extricating a true history from the convenient obfuscations of national mythology.Patrick Mullins3 Mar. 2025
The Age Demanded My Fellow CriticsJustin Clemens reviews the critic Ryan Ruby’s ‘poem containing a history of poetry’, holding the work up against its literary precedents as well as its own claims to formal and conceptual novelty. Is the critic’s wit to advantage dressed in verse?...Justin Clemens28 Feb. 2025
Ways of BeingAnthony Macris reviews two books that afford an intimate glimpse into the formation of two intellectuals, George Kouvaros and Nikos Papastergiadis. In their stories, Macris sees the pathos and prodigiousness of the changes wrought by modernity.Anthony Macris17 Feb. 2025
Conflicts of InterestWhere are the boundaries of a subculture? Who decides? In his review of Cher Tan’s book of essays Peripathetic, Max Easton addresses the conflicts and convergences of interest that make up life and culture outside, or indeed under, the mainstream....Max Easton17 Feb. 2025
In Search of Logged TimeFrom photography to web 2.0, Mahika Dhar surveys the ethical and existential risks of entrusting our memories to technology. As digital platforms make the leap from storing to fabricating our pasts, will we even remember what we have lost?Mahika Dhar28 Feb. 2025
The Architecture of PlayDrawing on their experiences in Utp’s ALWAYS: Call and Response residency, Lux Eterna and Travis de Vries reflect on the nexus between games, ritual, and creative exchange, as well as the role of artists and artmaking in the contemporary polis.Lux Eterna, Travis De Vries24 Feb. 2025
Prosthetic DesirerDrawing on the work of Andrea Long Chu and Jacques Lacan, Luara Karlson-Carp argues that the allure of AI consists not so much in a fantasy of limitless satisfaction as in a dream of abdicating desire for and in an increasingly dislocated world.Luara Karlson-Carp13 Dec. 2024
Welcome to the Word FactoryWhy are university managers excited about AI? Detailing the industrial and intellectual conditions of AI’s uptake, Andrew Dean argues that the disavowal of aesthetic judgement has helped pave the way for the acceptance of natural language as data....Andrew Dean3 Dec. 2024
Settling ScoresIn the wake of the women’s World Cup, Ruth McHugh-Dillon speaks to Ellen van Neerven about playing sport on Indigenous land and the challenges – of classification and acknowledgement – laid down by their latest book, Personal Score.Ruth McHugh-Dillon, Ellen van Neerven28 Aug. 2023
Unveiling through artCigdem Aydemir is a Sydney-based contemporary artist whose work primarily engages with the topic of veiling and the way in which Muslim women are commonly depicted and perceived in Australian society.Kobra Sayyadi28 May. 2023
Murnane's Signposts‘Does telling literature to get fucked mean you are articulating a new understanding of what literature is and what it can do vis-à-vis its apparent opposite, which might be something like “life”?’Joseph Steinberg27 Nov. 2022
Sumud: A Conversation with Paula AboodEvery project is a valuable project. My first questions are always, ‘What do you need?’ ‘What do you want?’, ‘What do you need me to do?’Roanna Gonsalves16 Oct. 2022
