Book Review: No, it Can’t! Reading Peter Murphy
Peter Murphy, Stranger Cities. Australian Creation and the Ambidextrous Mind, A Profile of Portal Modernity (Brill, 2023)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Photography – Empty Desire Lines: Cape Town under Lockdown
by Alex Oelofse
Cape Town is a city of astonishing beauty and contradiction. It is tough, beautiful, relaxed and edgy in different proportions. The god’s eye view by drone of this austere beauty leaves us wondering, in awe, of how life goes on the ground, and when it might return to its own version of normal.
Photo essay – watching the crown: tangible uncertainty
by Sian Supski
This photo essay was written in the first lockdown in Melbourne, March to June 2020. We are now in the second lockdown. This time the vibe is different, and not easy to explain. The city feels more lonely. We look out our windows at the deserted streets, the empty gallery, the quiet bar and save for the construction noise next door and the passing sirens, it is eerily quiet.
Issue 121, April 2014
Big city blues Table of Contents April 2014; 121 (1) Introduction: Big city blues Trevor Hogan and Julian Potter Abstract: The advent of the ‘mega’ or world city seems inseparable from the ambivalent and transient experience of modernity – the ideals of liberty, individuality, property, accelerating progress, and, for many, the realities of immobility,…
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