Published in Overland Issue 221 Summer 2015 · Uncategorized Trauerring Joel Scott 25/12/2013 the image is lossy, you shield your face before it burns out a whole in your skin, the day running into trouble, delayed, it thinks itself being deferent – flooded with light – your surfaces take on commodity sheen. the principle of rent. i dam lossing you i am lossy, hand you a morning ring in the trummerlight, it is an eye for you to look thru, and on the other side another eye, you put it down. you look, therefore you are good. some body senses rage and disgust on my face at the selfers paradise and they are right, but I just scribble in, and where the con- tours aren’t is where you are. Joel Scott Joel Scott is a poet and translator from Sydney who now lives in Berlin. He has published the chapbooks DIARY FARM (Vagabond Press, 2014) and BILDVERBOT (cross nougat press, 2017). His translation of volume two of Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance will be published by Duke University Press in 2020. More by Joel Scott › 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 21 February 202521 February 2025 · The university Closing the noose: a dispatch from the front line of decasualisation Matthew Taft Across the board, universities have responded to legislation aimed at rectifying this already grim situation by halting casual hiring, cutting courses, expanding class sizes, and increasing the workloads of permanent staff. This is an unintended consequence of the legislation, yes, but given the nefarious history of the university, from systemic wage theft to bad-faith bargaining, hardly a surprising one. 19 February 2025 · Disability The devaluing of disability support Áine Kelly-Costello and Jonathan Craig Over the past couple of decades, disabled people in much of the Western world have often sought, or agreed to, more individualised funding schemes in order to gain greater “choice and control” over the support we receive. But the autonomy, dignity and flexibility we were promised seems constantly under threat or out of reach, largely because of the perception that allowing us such “luxuries” is too expensive.
