Overland 254 is the first in a set of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. This issue also launches a new design and format by Common Room Editions, inspired by Overland’s trove of radical literature spanning from 1954 to today. Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange consider the asymmetrical responses to two events: the wearing of keffiyehs by three cast members during the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, and, on the same day in the US, the shooting of three Palestinian men wearing keffiyehs. Jeff Sparrow uncovers the Sydney Herald’s legacy of Terra Nullius, and Daniel Lopez writes on Marx, Meredith and the festival as an inversion of modern life.
Jim Andrews has been publishing vispo.com since 1996. He is a poet-programmer. Vispo.com houses intermedial, interactive, programmed poetry of many types and media as well as considerable theoretical writing about language and media. He lives in Vancouver Canada where he currently teaches web and mobile design, motion graphics, and JavaScript programming at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
