This issue goes to print on the cusp of a darkening world… Overland 255 is the second issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. In this issue, Samuel J Cox interviews Kim Scott on his works True Country (1993) and Benang (1995) in ‘Writing from the South’. Elsewhere, Juliet Scott interrogates ‘The Australian Media’s problem with Palestine’ and Sam Ryan looks back at Overland and the state of arts funding in Australia from 1973 to 1975. This issue also features poetry from Yeena Kirkbright, DJ Huppatz, Debbie Lim, among others, and short fiction from Lauren Collee, Madeline Byrne and Jordan Smith.
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).
