Philament: An Online Journal of the Arts and Culture

Philament: An Online Journal of the Arts and Culture

01: Inaugural Issue

Arts Degree, Please Take One, Hugh Tranter pdf

Which Model? Whose Measure?: Sexuality, Morality and Power in Measure for Measure and Basilicon Doron, Alison O'Harae pdf

You Can Take the Fan Out of the Academic but Should You?: Musings on Methodology

Gwyn Symonds pdf

Benjamin Contra Kant on Experience: Philosophising beyond Philosophy, Phil Quadrio pdf

"Bi contray caryez this knyght": Journeys of Colonisation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Helen Young pdf

A Question of Interpretation, Timotheos Roussos pdf

Words Fail, Love Among the Ruins and Retreats from Reality, Arianne Hartsell pdf

Mushroom Dreams, Hunting Mushrooms at Dawn and What Kind of a Person, Allene Nichols pdf

15 Dawn Pde., Kirril Shields pdf

The Letter, Jane Sloan pdf

Seagulls, Nikita Nankov pdf

02: Blue

Redefining ‘Queer' through Blue Humor: Margaret Cho's Performances of Queer Sexualities Brian Lewis

Feminist Drama: Railing and Redress: A Brief Study of Sarah Daniels's Byrthrite and Caryl Churchill's Top Girls Kate Flaherty

Into the Blue: A short excursion into the semantics of colours Caroline Patey 

Blueprint(s): Rubric for a Deconstructed Age in House of Leaves Martin Brick

Out "of” the blue: a comment on a preposition Garnet Butchart

Death of Blue Nicolette Stasko

In Case of My Death, An Elegy Margi Abraham

Starry Night  Corina K. Cook

Purple Catherine Daly

AntiHoward Poem  Marcel Fernandes

Bomana Marcel Fernandes

A High Lonesome Lovesick Blues Joanna Grant

Gemini Alexander Kendrew

Earth My Blue Pin in Space: An Experiment in Poetics Uli Krahn

Where Lies the Land to Which the Ship Would Go?  Nate Pritts

The Wedding Moon Stone Alifair Skebe

Night Walking Keli Stafford

03: Offbeat

Comments on "A Question of Interpretation" Susannah Macready

An off-beat adaptation: Orlando Timotheos Roussos

  

Fabulating the Australian Desert: Australia's Lost Race Romances, 1890-1908 Melissa Bellanta

Beating Off Teleology: A Defense of Non-Productive Thought Gregory Therel Esplin

The Written Off Beat: the Rewritten Text of William Burroughs' Naked Lunch Stephen Sheehan

An On & Off Beat: Kerouac's Beat Etymologies Bent Sørensen 

The Off-"Beat” Rhythms of Self-Expression in the Typography and Verse 

of Ntozake Shange Frank Fury

XVIII Karen Archer

swallowing Brooke M. Campbell

Love, Again  Brooke M. Campbell

Upon Completing "The Wreck of the Deutschland," Gerard Manley Hopkins Pauses Joanna Grant

A Gesamtkunstwerk for My Brother Joanna Grant

'no one can be quite as good a poet as you are...' Samar Habib

'I'm sorry don't turn around...'  Samar Habib

The Push Chris Harris

when evening drops Uli Krahn

gulgong, italy Uli Krahn

Ambrosia  Mark Mahemoff

Canvas  Kitty Nard

Armageddon

Allene Rasmussen Nichols

04: Untitles

From Comparative Literature to Cultural Studies… Anne Chalard-Fillaudeau

Manual Metaphysics: Philosophy and Theatre  Daniel Johnston

Wagner, D'Angelo and A Song I Wrote Greg Levine

[untitled] Alison O'Harae

Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body by Iain Borden Sam Spurr 

Les Wicks, Stories of the feet - tripped into landscape - Helen Young

Poetry Beyond the Page: a stroll through noticing Jayne Fenton Keane

Intense Flows: Flashmobbing, Rush Capital and the Swarming of Space Thomas Marchbank

What's in a Name? Or, Vile Bodies Revisited: Evelyn Waugh, Bright Young Things and a Hero in Search of a Plot Denise O'Dea

Benevolence and the Management of Stake: On Being ‘Good White People' Damien Riggs

Curves: A play in one act George Potter

05: Ornament

When Perfection Comes…  Troy Appling

Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake Kate Flaherty

Simon Cavenough's Escape Plan Kirsten Seale

A Man’s ‘True Face’: Concealing/Revealing Masculinities in Novels by Alan Duff and Witi Ihimaera Timotheos Roussos

Mimesis to Mockery: Chinoiserie Ornament in the Social Space of Eighteenth-Century France Phoebe Scott

The Objects of Memory: Collecting Eternal Sunshine Frederika Shulman

Selling his Story: The Peritextual Enhancement of O.J. Simpson's Defence Fundraising Memoir Marise Williams

Boots the Lucky Cat Michael Internicola

Marginal Ornaments Take Over! Kit Kellen

the limbs of desire are many Uli Krahn

talisman Timotheos Roussos

the colours of my flag (if i had one) Timotheos Roussos

you always Lydia Saleh-Rofail

eleven years Helen Young

06: Retrospective

Double or Nothing: The Uncanny State of Post-9.11 America Gregory T. Esplin

The Cucuzza Phenomenon Devin Harner

In Retrospect: Writing and Reading Oryx and Crake Amanda Cole

Remembering Absence: The Autobiography and Apostacy of Herbert Spencer Alexis Harley

  

Jose Plecnik and the Ethics of Forgetting Benjamin Morris

"As If They Thought She Were Deaf or Dumb": The Reproduction of Dominant Discourses in Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter Karsten H. Piep

Visit Joanna Grant

Name Thief Sarah Miller

Hills, South Truro Benjamin Morris

The Ante Benjamin Morris

I Remember Halloween Martin Rogers

three decades later Timotheos Roussos

Jade Succulent Deborah Staines

For Your Leaving Deborah Staines

07: XXX

Making it All Up:The Sex-Event as Pornobiography Roozbeh Araghi
 

"Somehow it's About All of Us": Black Medea's White Taboo 

A Semiotics of Einsturzende Neubauten's "X" 

The XXX Test Glen Fuller 

Deterrorialisations of Desire: Transgressive Sexuality as Filipino Anti-Imperialist Resistance in Jessice Hagedorn's Dogeaters Rahul K. Gairola

Marking Gender: Women and Tattoos Heather Neville 

Caught 'n 'e Frame?: Queer Embodiment Under Heteropatriarchy Damien Riggs

Asuka and the Floating City Cassandra Atherton 

Megan Sally Breen  

  

Shall These Bones Live? Lainie Jones 

As We Were Saying Rowan Wilken 

Kiss Kiss Kiss Lachlan Brown 

The Algebra of Reality and A Tidewater Tale Caleb Puckett

Waitemata Harbour

Neil Ramsey 

08: Model

‘So Many Speaking Pictures’: Model Characters in Shakespeare’s England
Nick Blackburn
 

Crafting Time: Ricky Swallow’s Recent Models

Marita Bullock

‘Life’s a Movie in Which She’s the Star’: Situating and Surveying the Camgirl

Kate Mason

Nocturne

Lachlan Brown

Equine head in the Nicholson collection

Bonny Cassidy 

Alice fell down a hole – Part I and Part II

Eu Jin Chua

Representing time

Miranda Heckenberg 

  

Where’s my Model? An Essay about Drawing and Copying the World

Uli Krahn

Just Act Natural: Models, Mannequins and Muses? Part I

Margaret Mayhew

Temple of Colours

Madhu Rai 

Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China (Exhibition review)

Phoebe Scott

Formed by Forgetting: Reading The Smoking Book

Jane Sloan 

The Travel Poem
James Stuart

09: Liminal

‘So Many Speaking Pictures’: Model Characters in Shakespeare’s England
Nick Blackburn
 

Crafting Time: Ricky Swallow’s Recent Models

Marita Bullock

‘Life’s a Movie in Which She’s the Star’: Situating and Surveying the Camgirl

Kate Mason

Nocturne

Lachlan Brown

Equine head in the Nicholson collection

Bonny Cassidy

Alice fell down a hole – Part I and Part II

Eu Jin Chua

Representing time

Miranda Heckenberg 

Where’s my Model? An Essay about Drawing and Copying the World

Uli Krahn

Just Act Natural: Models, Mannequins and Muses? Part I

Margaret Mayhew

Temple of Colours

Madhu Rai 

Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China (Exhibition review)

Phoebe Scott

Formed by Forgetting: Reading The Smoking Book

Jane Sloan 

The Travel Poem
James Stuart

10: Surveillance

From "Bump" to "Baby": Gazing at the Foetus in 4D

Meredith Nash

Morality and Legality in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Trilogy

Phoebe Poon

Presenting the Open Mic: Contemporary Poetry Readings Under and Beyond Academic Surveillance

Rachel Zitomer

City of Shadows

Matthew Allen

7Signs

Lachlan Brown 

The Stopover

Bonny Cassidy

Footfalls

Miranda Heckenberg and Robin Dixon

Modes of Observance

Uli Krahn

The Smell of Good Luck

Meg Mundell

Your eyes are everywhere

Dove Rengger-Thorpe

Palms of Your Hands
Beverley Southcott

11: Bound

Bound and Gagged: The Performance of Tradition in the Adversarial Criminal Jury Trial

Kate Leader

The Signifying Bind: Sigmund Freud and the Suspicion of the Unknown

Hamish McDougall

The Codex Unbound: The (Failed?) Promise of the Hypertext Novel

Julian Pinder

A discussion of Meredith Nash's From "Bump" to "Baby": Gazing at the Foetus in 4D (Philament 10).
 

Re-Embodying the Sonographic Experience

Shane Denson

Response to Shane Denson

Meredith Nash

On the Occasion of My First Erotic Piercing
Joanna Grant
 

Playing by the Rules
Alan Pejkovic

Three Poems
Elizabeth Kate Switaj

12: Habits & Habitat
 

The Language of Postmodern Space
Russell Daylight 

Piero Bigongiari's Search for Strength along the Arno Valley
Theodore Ell

Mella Jaarsma: Wearing Shelter and Security Miriam Kelly

The Worldly and the Otherworldly: On the 'Utopianism' of Deleuze's Thought
David Lane
 

Memory of West
Stuart Cooke
This poem is a personal reflection on the Australian landscape through the lens of the modern city.
  

Riots in Rotten Hulls, Fortescue Bay, Tasmania
Stuart Cooke
 

While Camping at Fortescue Bay, Tasmania

Stuart Cooke

Techno-Habitats and Media Habits: Reflections on Contemporary Children's Television
Shane Denson

Routine Vigil for a Songbird
Theodore Ell

Translations of Three Selections from Rogo
Theodore Ell
 

Rear Envelope Extension 1, 2 and 3
Garry Jones
 

On Habitually Learning from Trees, Fire & Other Issues Related to Art & Survival
Uli Krahn
 

Nouvelles Mythologies and the Bicycle: Barthes in the Age of Mythological Reproduction
Will Noonan

Can the Subaltern Shave? A Primer of Philo-Follicular Thought
Timothy Roberts

Review of the Liquid Cities Conference
Sarah Saeed

Going
John Turner

Listmaking and other Daily Distractions
Cece Wheeler

'I Know, but Cannot Share It': Landscape and the Emigrant
Jessica White

13: Hauntings

‘An Entangled Kind of Haunting’: Judith Wright and Uncanny Australia
Toby Davidson

‘My Other Conscience’: Epistolary Selves in Henry Mackenzie’s Julia de Roubigné
Tim Hanna

The Sins of Settlement: Confession and the Postcolonial Cartwright
Jessica Langston

Haunted Subjects: Fragments of the ‘Sexual Mosaic’ in James Ellroy’s Los Angeles

Joshua Meyer

William Wyler’s Uncanny Creation: The Fantôme Fatale in The Letter
Ana Salzberg

(In)Visible
Michelle Cahill

Childhood
Michelle Cahill

Gothic Fiction Double Feature

Emma Cole

Happy Talk
L. S. Dickens

Post
Josh Dubrau

Roses Josh Dubrau and Mark Havryliv Poem available to download as .wmv (2.2MB) or QuickTime (2.8MB) 

Beyond the Horizon
Matthew Glen

Our Debt to Vulcan
Allan McCay

Richard Feynman meets Albert Einstein for tea

Martin Mantle

14: Sense & Sensation

Making Sense: Convergence in Crime Narratives
Jo Chipperfield
 

The Racial Fault-Lines of Postcolonizing Sensation: Vivian Alvarez Solon and the Modality of the Quasi-Prior
Elaine Laforteza

Narrative Vistas: Subversive Voice-over in Terrence Malick

James McLeod

'Steam of Consciousness': Technology and Sensation in Dickens’ Railway Sketches
Alf Seegert

jar
Gabrielle Lorraine Fletcher

A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama
Mark O'Flynn

Tea Time In Limbo

Mark O'Flynn

The Yellow Sarong
Adrienne Sallay

Poems to Great Affairs
Jessica L. Wilkinson

15: Absence

Hol(e)y Statues: Some Reflections on Holes, Emptiness and Longing in the Work of Two Australian émigré sculptors of the Fifties
Jane Eckett

The Idea(l) of White British Benevolence: "Breaking the Chains" and the 2007 Bicentennial of Abolition
Sasha L. Johnston

Why Do Extinctions Matter? Mourning the Loss of Indigenous Flora in the Southwest of Western Australia
John C. Ryan

A Posthumous Visit by Virginia Woolf
Ann Brown

Death as Presence: Bill Viola's Ocean Without a Shore
Justine Grace

Emotions, Chaos and Commotion: A Family Narrative 

Megan Orcholski

you are known by the company you keep
John C. Ryan

Posy
Jessica L. Wilkinson

The Other Seven-Eighths of the Iceberg: Peering Beneath the Surface of Ernest Hemingway's Six-Word Story
Daniel Wood

16: Borders, Regions, Worlds

Billy Pilgrim's Motion Sickness: Chronesthesia and Duration in Slaughterhouse-Five
J.A. Martino
 

What's Missing in this Picture?: The 'Middle Parts of Fortune' in Australian War Literature
Clare Rhoden

Nemo's Abyss: The Deferral of Undecidability
David Prescott-Steed

Katoomba Incantation
John Ryan

The Patrimony
Eleni Pavlides

Glow in the Dark Stars
Angelina Mirabito

Crossing the Time Vortex: Retrospective on Doctor Who (new series; 2005-2010)
Phoebe Poon

The Art of Fashion Writing
Andre Rangiah

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