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.
Rebecca Hill is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne. She is the author of The Interval: Relation and Becoming in Irigaray, Aristotle and Bergson (Fordham, 2012) and the co-editor of Philosophies of Difference: Nature, Racism and Sexuate Difference (Routledge, 2018). Her research engages with the concepts of difference, time, place and sexual difference in decolonial theory, Australian Indigenous philosophy, continental philosophy, feminist theory and queer theory. She is a founding convenor of the Melbourne-based Philosophies of Difference (PoD seminars).
