Issue and Article Titles

issue 16 — Democracy Under Fire: the uses and abuses of democracy in the public sphere

The War on English: An Answer to the Question, What is Postmodernism?

By Niall Lucy & Steve Mickler

Democratic Hospitalities: national borders and the impossibility of the other for democracy

By Elaine Kelly

Democracy of the Civil Dead: The Blind Trade in Citizenship

By Terry Eyssens

Judith Butler, Gender, Radical Democracy: What’s Lacking?

By Julie MacKenzie

Democracy Now! Decolonising US News Media

By Kevin Howley

GetUp! for what? Issues Driven Democracy in a Transforming Public Sphere

By Henk Huijser & Janine Little

“Oriental Despotism” and the Democratisation of Iraq in The Australian

By Benjamin Isakhan

issue 15 — Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the Age of Global Culture

Walter Benjamin on Photography: Towards Elemental Politics

By Mika Elo

Benjamin, Trauma and the Virtual

By Allen Meek

Cybersurgery and Surgical (Dis)embodiment: Technology, Science, Art and the Body

By Julie Doyle

Fossilising the Commodity:  Tactical Engagements with Time, Art and the Virtual in Models by Ricky Swallow

By Marita Bullock

Aura as Productive Loss

By Warwick Mules

The Horror of Disconnection: The Auratic in Technological Malfunction

By Martin Dixon

“Politicizing Art”: Benjamin’s Redemptive Critique of Technology in the Age of Fascism

By Amresh Sinha

Dialectical Film Criticism: Walter Benjamin’s Historiography, Cultural Critique and the Archive

By Catherine Russell

The Dissipating Aura of Cinema

By Kristen Daly

From Flâneur to Web Surfer: Videoblogging, Photo Sharing and Walter Benjamin @ the Web 2.0

By Simon Lindgren

Contemplative Immersion: Benjamin, Adorno & Media Art Criticism

By Daniel Palmer

Tillers of the Soil/Travelling Journeymen: Modes of the Virtual

By A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul

Paradise Regained? The Work of Mediation Technology in an Age of Open Communities

By John Grech

issue 14 — Accidental Environments

Cruel Weather: Natural Disasters and Structural Violence

By Dennis Soron

Machine Breaths: Assembling the Mechanical Ventilator Body

By Bjorn Nansen

Toxic Shock: Gendered Environments and Embodied Knowledge in Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Todd Haynes’s [Safe]

By Rachel Carroll

Calculated Uncertainty: Computers, Chance Encounters, and "Community" in the Work of Cedric Price

By Rowan Wilken

The Accidental Topology of Digital Culture: How the Network Becomes Viral

By Tony Sampson

Accidental Participation in Control, in the Small of Society

By Don Winiecki

issue 13 — Making Badlands

Places            Past            Disappearance

By Ross Gibson

Ghosts in the Landscape

By Phillip Roe

Our place: in-between the primordial and the latter?

By Ashley Holmes

Domestic Imaginings

By Saffron Newey

Ley Lines

By Sharon Thorne

Making Badlands All Over the World: Local Knowledge and Global Power

By Steve Butler

“I wish I was anywhere but here”: “Structure of address” in the badlands

By Constance Ellwood

Badlands at the Bedside: Fact or Fiction

By Wendy Madsen

issue 12 — Rethinking Regionality

f2f 2 url & b ond: space/time and the dissemination of community

By Darren Tofts

‘[Captain Cook):(Re-Births):(Byron Bay]’

By Terry Maybury

The edges of the earth: critical regionalism as an aesthetics of the singular

By Warwick Mules

Regionality and New Media Art

By Grayson Cooke and Dea Morgain

Ghostwriting: The Alkimos and its Ghosts

By Phillip Roe

issue 11 — Edges and Centres: Contemporary Experience and Lifestyle

Luce Irigaray's Sensible Transcendental: Becoming Divine in the Body

By Agnes Bosanquet

Scandinavian Dreams: DIY, Democratisation and IKEA

By Buck Clifford Rosenberg

I've never ever felt like that in my life before ... never ever felt that intense : penetration of the male body as transformative experience

By Terry Evans

Cyberharassment and Online Defamation: a Default Form of Regulations?

By Julie Dare

Drawing on Turner: Liminal engagements between artists, advocates and refugees in regional Western Australia.

By F Tilbury, Y Toussaint and A Davis

issue 10 — Media Communities: Local Voices

Wireless World: Global Perspectives on Community Radio

By Kevin Howley

“A Gang of Leftists with a Website: The Indymedia Movement”

By Jon R. Pike

A Curious Case of American Exceptionalism: Ideology, Policy and Practice in American, Australian and Canadian Community Radio

By Charles Fairchild

A Thumbnail Dipped in Tar …
The resuscitation of a remote rural community newspaper using the Distributed Newsroom model.

By Chris Capel and John Cokley

Community radio in post-apartheid South Africa: The case of Bush Radio in Cape Town

By Tanja Bosch

Transforming Communities: Community Journalism in Africa

By Robert C. Moore and Tamara L. Gillis

Grassroots media practices in Greece: a sociological approach

By Pantelis Vatikiotis

Is anybody reading this? Indymedia and internet traffic reports

By Andy Opel and Rich Templin

issue 9 — Independent Articles 2005

Conflicting Imaginary Places in a Local Environmental Dispute

By Elizabeth Eddy

issue 8 — Regions of Sexuality

Paedophilia and the Misrecognition of Desire

By Steven Angelides

The Measure of 'Sexual Dysfunction': A Plea for Theoretical Limitlessness

By Lisa Downing

Locating Third Sexes

By M. Morgan Holmes

Being-Exposed: 'The Poetics of Sex' and Other Matters of Tact

By Nikki Sullivan

issue 7 — New Media Technologies

News Connections: Regional newspapers and the Web

By Jacqui Ewart

Weblogs, warblogs, the public sphere, and bubbles

By Garry Thompson

What's Happening? Mobile Communication Technology and the Surveillance Function of News

By Collette Snowden

New Media Technologies and the Making of the New Global Reporter

By Geoff Craig

The Backyard Blitz Syndrome: the emerging student culture in Australian Higher Education

By Judith Langridge

The Technology, Aesthetic and Cultural Politics of a Collaborative, Transnational Music Recording Project: Veiga, Veiga and the Itinerant Overdubs

By Denis Crowdy and Karl Neuenfeldt

issue 6 — Gender In Asia

"A Mirror For Men?" Idealised Depictions of White Men and Gay Men in Japanese Women's Media

By Mark McLelland

Asian women artists: A local and global perspective

By Andrea Ash

On the Forest Fringes?: Environmentalism, Left Politics and Feminism in Japan

By Mike Danaher

Gendered Spaces: Women in Burmese Society

By Than Than Nwe

issue 5 — Regional Landscapes

Selling the Suburbs: Nature, Landscape, Adverts, Community

By Dennis Wood

Wildflowers and Other Landscapes

By Stephanie Green

Sublime Futures: eco-art and the return of the real in Peter Dombrovskis, John Wolseley and Andy Goldsworthy

By Ian McLean

Urban Exposures

By Panizza Allmark

Rocks in Their Heads: The “Landscape and You” Experience

By George Karpathakis

China’s Mother River Scolds Her Young: Modernization and the National Landscape

By Jane Sayers

issue 4 — Independent Articles 2002

Community radio, radicalism and the grassroots: Discussing the politics of contemporary Australian community

By Susan Forde, Michael Meadows and Kerrie Foxwell

issue 3 — Cultural Memory

Rumble in the Jungle

By Steven Quinn

Keeping it (Hyper)real

By Amanda Evans

We're one short for the crossing: Abbey Road and popular memory

By Tara Brabazon

Cinema on Cinema: Self-reflexive Memories in Recent Italian History Films

By Tiziana Ferrero-Regis

Eyes Wide Shut: Tom, Nicole, Stardom and Visual Memory

By Jeannette Delamoir

The Postmodern Prometheus: Collective experience and the carnivalesque

By Leanne McRae

Why is this night different from all other nights?

By Felicity Newman

issue 2 — Fleeing The City

Sea Change: Re-Inventing Rural and Regional Australia

By Peter Murphy

A Place At the Coast: Internal Migration and the Shift to the Coastal-countryside

By Johanna Kijas

Where Green Turns to Gold: Strip Cultivation and the Gold Coast Hinterland

By Grahame Griffin

Mapping the Rainbow Region: Fields of belonging and Sites of Confluence

By Baden Offord

Fleeing the City Within: a Mental Health Perspective

By Diana Sweeney & David A Pollard

Memories and idylls: Urban Reflections on Lost Places and Inner Landscapes

By Jane Mulcock and Yann Toussaint

Rural Lines of Flight: Telecommunications and Post-Metro Dreaming

By Gerard Goggin

Migration, Music and Social Relations on the NSW Far North Coast

By Chris Gibson

Music Making in the Village of Nimbin

By Michael Hannan

Dropping in, Not out: the Evolution of the Alternative Press in Byron Shire 1970-2001

By Fiona Martin & Rhonda Ellis

issue 1 — Queensland Regional Imaginary

Birch Carroll and Coyle and the Regional Picture Palace: A case study

By Denis Cryle, Betty Cosgrove & Ray Boyle

Identity Through Sound and Image: This is Australia?

By Jim Douglas

Capturing the Heart of the Region: How Regional Media Define a Community

By Jacqui Ewart

Learning to be a Nurse: The Culture of Training in a Regional Queensland Hospital, 1930–1950

By Wendy Madsen

Imagining Colonial Space in Regional Queensland: Film and Governance

By Warwick Mules

The Transformative Effects of CDs on the Australian Folk Festival Scene

By Karl Neuenfeldt