207 Winter 2012 Buy this issue Human rights versus human freedom; priorities for the women's movement; politics of steampunk; the case for fat activism and much, much more. Issue Contents Features The Arab Revolutions reloaded Toufic Haddad Republican Democrats Louis Proyect Bookshops, ebooks and the future of the novel John Weldon, Jo Case and Malcolm Neil 'Intervene, I said' Jessica Whyte Porn and the misogyny emergency Gail Dines and Sharon Smith Non-market socialism today Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman Leftist constructs Diana M Pho A big fat fight Jennifer Lee Waiting on the Arriaga-Ixtepec Matthew Clayfield Fiction Holiday in little Saigon Stephen Pham The dolphin Sarah Schmidt Of rivers and blood Luke Johnson Poetry Published by Global Supermarket Pty Ltd Sebastian Gurciullo To Nina Pam Brown poem a William Druce ‘Clouds fall like snow on the sky’s clear rocks’1 Sam Langer Step by Step Patrick Jones Corydalis Mark O'Flynn Your Bath Fiona Yardley Maximum Security Fiona Hile Wireless David Prater Islands Andy Quan Also Starring … Alan Wearne Starvation Box Blues Joe Dolce Editorial Editorial Jeff Sparrow Debate Porn and the misogyny emergency Gail Dines and Sharon Smith Browse the issue: Features Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Politics The Arab Revolutions reloaded Toufic Haddad By now, it is the stuff of legend: Muhammad Bouazizi, fed up with police harassment and poverty, douses himself in kerosene and sets himself alight in front of the local municipality. And so it began, more than one year ago in the ruin of a Tunisian backwater called Sidi Bouzid. Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Politics Republican Democrats Louis Proyect Obama has little incentive to follow Roosevelt’s example, in light of the major differences between the Great Depression and the Great Recession. The working class no longer has the leverage it had in the 1930s when the US was still heavily invested in manufacturing. Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Reading Bookshops, ebooks and the future of the novel John Weldon, Jo Case and Malcolm Neil Overland in conversation with industry insiders Jo Case, John Weldon and Malcolm Neil. Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Politics 'Intervene, I said' Jessica Whyte In March last year, only days after NATO’s military intervention in Libya, the French ‘New Philosopher’ Bernard-Henri Lévy held a reception for Libyan insurgents at the Hôtel Rafael in Paris. Among the guests was Bernard Kouchner, the founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), who played a major role in popularising the so-called ‘right to intervene’ on humanitarian grounds. Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Activism Porn and the misogyny emergency Gail Dines and Sharon Smith Without doubt, the porn question has, since the 1970s, been the most controversial and divisive issue in the women’s movement. Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Politics Non-market socialism today Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman Earth Overshoot Day marks the point when human activities use more resources than nature is capable of regenerating each year, an imbalance well established by the end of last century, creating a gap that has increased most years since. If we use models devised by the UK’s New Economics Foundation (NEF) and the Global Footprint Network, Earth Overshoot Day in 2011 fell on 27 September. Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Culture Leftist constructs Diana M Pho In 1987, when KW Jeter penned a simple letter describing his books to Locus magazine, his words were prophetic: ‘Personally, I think Victorian fantasies are going to be the next big thing, as long as we can come up with a fitting collective … Something based on the appropriate technology of that era; like “steampunks,” perhaps’. Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Activism A big fat fight Jennifer Lee If I listed all the insults, I’d fill a page. I note them here to show that fat prejudice is rife in Australia. Sometimes it is women who look over their glasses and direct their eyes up and down my body in shops where they don’t stock anything over size fourteen. Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Culture Waiting on the Arriaga-Ixtepec Matthew Clayfield What they are waiting for is el tren, the now infamous freight service that takes them to Ixtepec, Oaxaca, and on into the cartel-controlled state of Veracruz. There, many are beaten, sexually assaulted, robbed, extorted, kidnapped or killed – and there are few, if any, lucky ones. Fiction Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Holiday in little Saigon Stephen Pham Walking around Cabramatta today, you could be forgiven for not believing its history. Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · The dolphin Sarah Schmidt The day before Eleanor died she had spent the afternoon drinking cocktails with her friends. Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Of rivers and blood Luke Johnson At night-time, the river sounds like a dozen lanes of blackest highway bitumen. Poetry Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Published by Global Supermarket Pty Ltd Sebastian Gurciullo choose from chicken or beef these delicious soups are jam-packed with chunky pieces of vegetables and meat offered in a convenient ring-pull can microwave and serve Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · To Nina Pam Brown once upon a time Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · poem a William Druce somebody is flinching by the mobile florist, getting lynched with fatigue and crumbed tobacco Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · ‘Clouds fall like snow on the sky’s clear rocks’1 Sam Langer one way is for the temperature to fall this happens on clear, calm summer nights. a cloudy sky acts Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Step by Step Patrick Jones when populationS swell and get sucked into cities we rely on resources Trucked from somewhere else and indoing so forfE it the ecological intelligence that our unsPecialised ancestors kept so close Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Corydalis Mark O'Flynn He tells me the summer grass is worth more than gold. The seed in the worm’s mouth Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Your Bath Fiona Yardley Your bath is generous, impersonal, whitely curved, bloated with self-importance and scummed with a delicate rim of grime. Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Maximum Security Fiona Hile Photocopied peaches taste sour in the afterthought of extricated blue. The relationship manager’s understudy Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Wireless David Prater The tower was locked (its future being chained to the mast like a breeze crossed with water from the past tense (that immense wall of sound’s collage (its anagram eye, loveless Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Islands Andy Quan I am sleeping tonight side by side with my mother on spring and feather, matching queen-sized mattresses, in the adjoining room my brother and his family. Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Also Starring … Alan Wearne Ben Kingsley as David Malouf Nicole Kidman as Alison Croggon Anthony Quinn as PiO Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Starvation Box Blues Joe Dolce When I got myself this Starvation Box my daddy told me son you’re bound to lose you ain’t never gonna make no money playing that guitar Editorial Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Editorial Jeff Sparrow After the huge vote for the neo-fascist National Front, the philosopher Alain Badiou excoriated the French intelligentsia for their complicity with the new anti-Muslim racism. ‘As always,’ he wrote, ‘the idea – no matter how criminal – precedes power, which in turn shapes the opinion that it needs. The intellectual – no matter how appalling – precedes the minister, who constructs her followers.’ Debate Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Activism Porn and the misogyny emergency Gail Dines and Sharon Smith Without doubt, the porn question has, since the 1970s, been the most controversial and divisive issue in the women’s movement. Previous Issue 206 Autumn 2012 Next Issue Issue 207.5: Winter fiction
