November 3, 2009 – 12:23 pm
In Smoke in the Room, three characters end up in a share house in Sydney. Katie works on instinct and is weighted by an overwhelming empathy. Adam, an American, is grieving and needs to save money to get home. Graeme, an aid worker, has rid himself of possessions and simplified his existence. In this novel, [...]
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Posted in Interviews + Profiles, Reviews + Analyses
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Also tagged acting out, Australian authors, Australian fiction, bleak novels, contempoarary fiction, Depression, Distraction, Emily Maguire, emotional, empathy, Gen X, Gen Y, Graham Green, grief, honesty, interview, isolation, loneliness, loss, philosophy, self-harm, Smoke in the Room, suicide, Sydney, truth, Western Sydney
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October 25, 2009 – 10:53 am
This piece is a mash-up of an undergrad essay from a couple of years ago, plus present thoughts, imaginings and speculation on the narrative of self in a virtual environment.
Storytelling is as old as humanity. The human has always actively projected him/herself into realms of fantasy (through song, art, drama, writing). Modernity advanced the visual aspect of [...]
By LiteraryMinded
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Posted in Commentary, Self-indulgence
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Also tagged avatar, Baudrillard, blogging, capitalism, commercialism, communication, computer, cyberpunk, cyberspace, De Certeau, dehumanisation, deterritorialisation, excorporation, formation of self and narratives, Foucault, heterotopia, hyperreal, internet, modernity, narrative, online, phatasmagorical, po-mo, postmoder, postmodernism, postmodernity, rhizome, simulacra, space, storytelling, subversive, technology, time, utopia
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October 18, 2009 – 1:39 pm
After Ruby J Murray’s On Writing in the World: Ten Things About Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2009.
1. Flying over the top end – veiny, crater-filled land, mercury lakes and billabongs. The corny sea creature carpet at Darwin airport where there’s a smoking area and men in matching shirts drinking VB. Realising in the past [...]
By LiteraryMinded
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Posted in Commentary
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Also tagged Bali, colonialism, discovery, global, learning, Lloyd Jones, queer, suka duka, travel, Ubud, Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2009, UWRF, world issues, writers festivals
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August 23, 2009 – 9:56 am
‘I just blogged’ I said to my friends when I ran into them, flustered, between sessions. Chris Flynn looked at me and said ‘that sounds dirty’, like ‘I just did a blog’, ‘I just dropped one’ and other variations. And now, the word blog is RUINED for me.
But I was enlightened by two things: Chris [...]
By LiteraryMinded
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Posted in Commentary
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Also tagged balance, Billy Idol, Brigid Delaney, China Mieville, death of religion, dystopia, fantastic fiction, futuristic, genre fiction, hyperreality, Jack Dann, John Carroll, literal video versions, Margo Lanagan, old people, Overland, Overland 196, Rjurik Davidson, sci-fi, secular society, the city, utopia
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October 10, 2008 – 9:44 pm
Company, Max Barry, Scribe, 9781921215643, 2008 (pb Australia)
Jones joins Zephyr as an enthusiastic employee, without even knowing what the company does. This doesn’t seem to be an odd thing at Zephyr, where Jones’ coworkers in the Training Sales department just accept that Zephyr is a ‘holdings’ company, and get on with their menial, perpetual tasks [...]
Avatar: a mash-up
This piece is a mash-up of an undergrad essay from a couple of years ago, plus present thoughts, imaginings and speculation on the narrative of self in a virtual environment.
Storytelling is as old as humanity. The human has always actively projected him/herself into realms of fantasy (through song, art, drama, writing). Modernity advanced the visual aspect of [...]