Published in Overland Issue 221 Summer 2015 · Uncategorized Issue 221 Editorial team REGULARS Editorial Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Stephen Wright Giovanni Tiso Contributors FEATURES Ben Eltham The excellence criterion The future of arts funding Laurie Penny Facebook absolution On corporate policing of identity Eliora Avraham Transgender justice A manifesto Sam Wallman Ain’t no border high enough Crossing Fortress Europe Jessie Webb Reading machines The need to speed-read Sophie Cunningham Gold rush Housing politics in the Mission District Lauren Carroll Harris Are Australian universities creating good artists? Capitalism and the canvas Simon Gennard Simply air vibrating The myths of Master Marconi FICTION 2015 VU Short Story Prize report Barry Lee Thompson First place: Their cruel routines Jennifer Down Runner-up: Alpine Road Genevieve Poetka Runner-up: Faking 2015 Story Wine Prize report Melissa Manning Woodsmoke POETRY joanne Burns breakfast at the end of a financial year john Kinsella Madingley Vanessa Kirkpatrick Night air Cameron Lowe Glow Fuse Kevin gillam ’73 Derek Motion pages Philip Neilsen Noosa Beach Joel Scott Trauerring Jason Walker Tamarisk Deb Westbury Magnetic Poetry Kit – mostly found Editorial team More by Editorial team › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 10 April 202610 April 2026 · open letter Open letter: RMIT staff and students oppose disciplinary action against Gemma Seymour over video opposing links to weapons ties RMIT University Staff and Students Freedom of speech and expression is absolutely vital in academic institutions. Students who engage in activism should not be punished for doing so, and discipline procedures are not there to be abused as a tool of intimidation. We call for the disciplinary process against Gemma to cease immediately. 9 April 202610 April 2026 · CoPower Against the will to engineer: Richard King’s Brave New Wild Ben Brooker The response demanded of us in the twenty-first century must operate at the level of metaphysics as well as the material, addressing our underlying assumptions about the instrumentalisation of nature and what constitutes a meaningful life in the face of technology’s relentless advance. To neglect that deeper terrain is to concede, in advance, the very ground on which our resistance to the machine must stand.
