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Legal Rupture, Legal Order: Three Stories of Australian Riots

Tilly Houghton was a friend to many at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS) and demos journal, and worked on and contributed to this issue of demos journal. We have been gi...

Tilly Houghton

Innocence Commodified: The Figure of the Child in Neoliberal Capitalism

Innocence is an important cultural marker. As I and others have written elsewhere, it holds powerful significatory value as a contested and complicated sign which entangles richly ...

Anastasia Kanjere

Give Me Beauty or Give Me Death: Understanding Trump’s Nostalgia Through La La Land and Jackie

This is the text of a talk given in Canberra on 15 February 2017 for a ‘Philosophy in the Pub’ event at Smith’s Alternative . The brief for tonight’s event was to talk about philos...

Justine Poon

The Doll Lady of Wisconsin

On the first anniversary of my mother’s passing, a letter was forwarded to me from the Holocaust Centre. My mother had been prominent in Holocaust Education. A woman in Wisconsin w...

S. Nadja Zajdman

The Apocalypse is Easy: Limitations of our Climate Change Imaginings

In a 2005 article for The Guardian , Robert Macfarlane lamented the lack of a cultural response to climate change, asking: ‘where are the novels, the plays, the poems, the songs...

Claire Gardner