Published in Overland Issue 208 Spring 2012 · Uncategorized Issue 208 Jeff Sparrow Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Judy Horacek Alison Croggon Rjurik Davidson Features Jonathan Green The end of a world An elegy for the newspaper Alex Mitchell Fatal obsessions Murdoch’s early years Anwyn Crawford Fat, privilege and resistance A response to Jennifer Lee Matt Cornell Outsider porn Adult goes indie Juliana Qian The name and the face CAL-Connections: On not speaking Chinese Malcolm Harris Twitterland Meanland: The radical terrain of social media Rebecca Giggs Imagining women Feminism and nonfiction Michael Green The cooperation A collective response to unemployment Fiction Jennifer Mills − Architecture Davide Angelo − Double tap Jannali Jones − Blancamorphosis Stephanie Convery − Big river Poetry Todd Turner − Clockwork Lawrence Upton − Human Tissue Cassandra Atherton − Bonds Campbell Thomson − Australia is a film about a red dog Tim Thorne – Honesty Paula Green – Picking Grapes Adam Aitken – Old Europe (2) Shari Kocher – Bellbird Gully Michelle Gaddes – The Tap Julie Maclean – without a city wall Graphics Bruce Mutard Paper planes Sam Wallman cover Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, broadcaster and Walkley award-winning journalist. He is a former columnist for Guardian Australia, a former Breakfaster at radio station 3RRR, and a past editor of Overland. His most recent book is a collaboration with Sam Wallman called Twelve Rules for Strife (Scribe). He works at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. More by Jeff Sparrow › 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.
