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Why do you want to make things?
Graffiti artists are known to feel more certain about their identity after creating work; they become more receptive to other perspectives, activities and opportunities. They’re not as worried that these other behaviours will obscure their identity – an identity that is now stable and enduring
Prismatic perspectives
Click here to listen to Editor Ashley Hay read her introduction ‘Prismatic perspectives’. IN 1816, DAVID Brewster, a Scottish mathematician and physicist, invented a...
Simulated learning
IN GILLES DELEUZE’S ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control’, the philosopher compares a discipline society in which one is...
Remaking universities
CAN WE GRIEVE not for a person but for an institution? Should we be angry over possibilities destroyed, young...
what did you want to be when you grew up?
dad, did you ever want to live in a treehouse with a monkey butler? wear a helmet made of...
Schooled
TOWARDS THE END of Educated, her harrowing memoir of an Idaho childhood with Mormon survivalist parents, Tara Westover concludes:...
Following the song
Click here to listen to Lisa Fuller read ‘Following the song’. Western knowledge is increasingly problematic because of its dominance over other...
The reading revolution
WHEN BOB FITZGERALD, Chief Inspector of Blacktown Police Area Command, was in Year 4, he stole a book from...
Double
ALL THE ROADS in this part of town are bitumen, so Odette’s piece-of-shit Toyota does fine, even in the...
Holding the baby
Where I live, what I earn and my level of education: these will all influence not only my decision to have a baby but the experiences that baby will then have. These four factors – education, geography, wealth and birth rate – loop around one another in infinite iterations. People in regional and remote Australia have more children younger; they also have lower levels of educational attainment.
Compulsory wellbeing
SUCH GREAT PAY and all those holidays. Plus you only work from nine ’til three…is often the response a...
By design
I WAS TREMBLING. Not because I was about to do something risky or scary – quite the opposite. This...
