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Some thoughts.
'To let suffering speak' | Overland's co-editor
@jonathandunk
responds to some of the criticism we have received for our solidarity with Palestine.
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my girlfriend and I saw you from across the bar and we really dig your vibe
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No-one’s coming for anyone you delusional narcissists. You colluded to silence people you disagreed with. Your own words were leaked, that’s it.
And to get to her, you need to get through us. That will not be easy.
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christ i'm bored of lo-fi mumblecore daddy's amex realist autofiction: I was in a certain place where I bought certain things, I pondered the state of the world and my place in it but limply because I'm unlikeable & invested in the idea that my unlikeability is interesting.
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we didn't do it and it's antisemitic to say we did and if we did it's their fault and they deserved it anyway
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This is a brazen attempt to intimidate the Indigenous literary community on the basis of a single entirely innocuous festival panel. Are you utterly without principle
@Melbchief
?
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There seems to be another WhatsApp group targeting Overland by entering false signatures on one of our petitions and then formulaically complaining about it. You moronic ghouls will always have to live with the fact that this is what you were doing right now.
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All this pious gentle bullshit about your feelings now that people are saying uncomfortable things about you, not a word about thousands of dead children, your words are fucking meaningless.
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Thanks for the solidarity everyone, but let’s not stoop to their level. Evelyn and I don’t want any reprisals against anyone. The situation is Gaza not a bunch of self-involved fools.
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Your mates facing consequences: the primary theme of Kafka’s great work
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You didn't reach out for comment, you asked for Laura's name to be removed from the petition and we complied. Had you done so we would have stressed that amplifying a known source of disinformation like the
@AustralianJA
is at best journalistically irresponsible.
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It's almost as though appointing a bunch of rapacious mining executives to university councils was a shithouse idea
Australia’s academic union is demanding a federal parliamentary inquiry into “wage theft” at universities, as the tally of underpayments approaches A$400 million (£210 million)
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'died while being arrested' or in otherwise fucking obvious terms 'was murdered by police'
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I've spent time at a bunch of student camps in Melbourne; I've witnessed a handful of pissed off middle-aged morons draped in Australian flags and MAGA hats and a multitude of Jewish students proudly involved and embraced in protest. Reject the bullshit.
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@PhillipAdams_1
With all due Phillip, the emphasis the plus61j piece places on individual sentiments in the face of the scale of the escalating horrors in Gaza is simply grotesque. We agree with António Guterres, the context of Hamas is a historical fact, not a moral one.
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Basically cops shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the mentally unwell, or trans folk, or blak ppl or the poor or
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the australian poetry voice is a suburban dad checking a half remembered shopping list
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Yes the hypocrisy is vile and blatant- not so long ago I ate a cake Ramona Koval made with her in her own house- but the point is that these absurd narcissistic arguments can somehow be made while children like Hind are brutally murdered.
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thrilled to be taking on the editorship of
@OverlandJournal
with
@evelynaraluen
later this year, very keen to work with you all!
Gosh we are excited to bring you this important Overland update!
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thinking of launching 'Dark Literary Criticism' which will involve many of the concepts of ordinary literary criticism applied very badly
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I’m delighted to be helping launch
@evelynaraluen
’s book tomorrow. I’m biased, but I know this book intimately, and for the critical horse I rode in on it will change how this country is written.
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This tweet is the lofty summit of Australian literature
Woke up to more missed calls from a private number. You know it's just gonna be Mike Whitney off his nut claiming a new season of Who Dares Wins is coming. Last time we spoke I said if his shadow darkens my doorstep again I'll put my hand in an Ovaltine tin and use it like a mace
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@Melbchief
'Keep your mouth shut about thousands of murdered children or risk losing our nakedly transactional support'— even at the purely strategic level, what a clumsy, thuggish manoeuvre. The veil is fraying at the seams.
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'the Gaza encampments stand out not because they’re intimidating but because they provide a rare space of community in a soulless corporate environment... they emphasise the ostentatious inclusivity that conservatives loathe.'
“In Australia, the attack on Gaza engendered one of the broadest social movements in decades, perhaps ever — and its diversity has broken the conservative brain.”
@Jeff_Sparrow
on what makes the Palestine solidarity movement such a unique threat to power.
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Poetry is writing about birds. Fiction is writing about dogs. Creative nonfiction can be about birds or dogs, which is why it can’t be trusted.
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—I met a *stranger* for *sex* on the *internet* because I read someone who read Bret Easton Ellis and I am *atomised*
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there is definitely an essay in the sheer scale of performed economic disingenuity in my generation of Sydney writers: Ashfield isn't Blacktown and both your parents are well-known barristers champ.
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it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to essays which start with the Fisher/Jameson/ Žižek quote about it being easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism
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currently editing an amazing essay by a rigger who worked on the west gate bridge (keep an eye out). We all know this already; but it's a pretty sharp demonstration of the rigid kinds of class distinction involved in who gets to be literary.
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Why doesn’t the large girlfriend simply kill and eat the smaller?
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Yeah man, many words have complicated histories, it'd be great if Israel stopped bombing civilians though is my point.
Speaking of words - as Jonathan edits a literary journal he ought now something about etymology - instead of lashing out at Kos, perhaps reflect on how the elements of the left have adopted the slur “zio”, coined by none other than David Duke to refer to Jews.
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you either die a queer theorist and writer of overdetermined novels or you live long enough to see yourself become management
Is this the most cursed piece of writing to come out of an Australian university in 2021??
A dean citing Butler and Ricœur to accuse protesters of an “insinuatingly gendered recourse” to her first name.
(via
@mathew_abbott
on FB)
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my mother explaining my friends: they drink all night and argue about books no one reads.
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Fuck off usyd trying to guilt alumni into paying for the refugee language program which you deliberately defunded- perhaps if you divested from one or two arms or fossil fuel interests you might find a bit of extra cash lying around
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it's important to gently wake your partner with a cup of tea and some interesting facts about the historical etymology of the peregrine falcon
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@thebooksdesk
I once nervously asked Coetzee whether he was enjoying a conference devoted entirely to his life and work.
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I always love working with Elias, but this essay is a thing of haunting beauty.
In our first featured essay sponsored by
@Co_Power_
for the year,
@elias_greig
uses the form of the memoir to reflect on housing, settlement and history. We guarantee that this one will stay with you.
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you have no politics, and lack the conviction of your own pathologies
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What particularly troubles you about a Palestinian PhD candidate?
DOES SYDNEY UNIVERSITY HAVE AN AGENDA?
Promo video for astrophysics presented with both kefiyah AND "Palestine" necklace.
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Best hope you've secured the WhatsApp better this time around.
Seems like Overland is a source of 'disinformation' by spreading a petition that the supposed signatory claims not to have signed.
How many of the names are fake?
Is the whole petition fake?
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We're not trying to make anyone feel 'unsafe', but seriously are you guys reading the same headlines we are; because right now safety is a wide fucking spectrum.
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no time to explain but does melb uni have any crypts, catacombs, things of that nature
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'aware that I was in most meaningful senses history's victor I was abstractly sad about climate change somewhere'
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Things that have aged well.
If Russian leadership would rather not be accused of committing war crimes, they should stop bombing hospitals.
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The only deducible conclusion is that hitherto or ostensibly reasonable and humane people are indifferent to Palestinian life.
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My god she’s actually fucking doing this
Let me guess, you’re somehow the victim of your own decision to collude against the careers of people you disagree with.
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garage sale off hope street if anyone needs eight copies of infinite jest
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I humbly announce that after much prayer I've accepted the position of Editor-in-chief at Quadrant. The wintry Untergang of the west cannot be forestalled but we shall shamble towards our quietus with dignity my dwindling brethren.
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Pig Iron Bob Menzies once personally intervened to deny funding to
@OverlandJournal
, just in case you needed another reason to subscribe.
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Thank you all so much for your donations to
@Overland
, your extraordinary generosity and solidarity will support the voices, the arguments that are silenced elsewhere.
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'Something vaguely abject happened, and then I thought that i should think or feel something vaguely interesting about it, but I didn't, but I did think or feel something vaguely interesting about my inability to think or feel somethint vaguely intere—'
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Travel— there's always travel because there's always mobility because there's always money— can only be savoured listlessly
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Children dying in their thousands, and this is how you choose to respond? How do you sleep at night?
“Former ALP Minister Barry Jones has described an open letter by literary journal
@OverlandJournal
, of which he is official patron, as “appalling” over its inflammatory language and distorted claims about Israel and Gaza.
The letter accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza, describes
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who the fuck wrote this
Never seen an article so brutally expose the deep-seated biases of a media organisation before in my entire life. Absolutely epic self-own by the ABC.
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the elites won't tell you this but poetry is entirely about wide margins
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but Jon if you give everyone extensions you're not being fair to the students who have more money and less problems
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this form is the exaltation of my generation's bourgeois, but we're all so fucking private school pickme'd that even our triumphs need to be couched in mealy public sorrow
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My short fiction has been variously described as 'miserable,' 'a bad idea, generally,' and '—what the fuck man'
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Actually my preferred method of self care is avoiding vacuous bullshit
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‘Our official position is that poetry is a powerful art form’ must be one of the stupider things said on the subject
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Mate if I were you I wouldn't be discussing questions of authenticity in public; but then I'm capable of shame.
Seems like Overland is a source of 'disinformation' by spreading a petition that the supposed signatory claims not to have signed.
How many of the names are fake?
Is the whole petition fake?
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The ability certain kinds of settler writers posses - to follow their own narcissistic priorities in writing place, luxuriate in self pity when criticised by black writers, and then replicate the entire process in their next work - is almost structurally impressive.
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you know you have nothing to say but insist on having something to say about it
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Here you can read something from the students themselves, in stead of the vacuous bullshit being written about them.
"We reject passivity, cynicism, pessimism and lethargy. We replace them with hope, determination and civil disobedience."
Overland is proud to publish this joint statement from 11 Palestine student solidarity encampments across Australia.
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everyone knows it's fucking great to have a middle class job and do drugs on the weekend steve. An honest complacency at least stands the chance of being well-written.
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Certain people have clearly underestimated the moral force of reality
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Are you the Jonathan Dunk who wrote the paper ‘fuck off and die you parasitic pseudo-publisher I swear to fucking god if I have to read another one of these fucking emails I’ll fucking’?
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You bloviating fools prevaricating over semantics while bombs are dropped on children disgust me. Your infantile need to have always been already absolved of the war-crimes you're going to commit anyway is a contemptible bad faith that will neither be forgotten nor forgiven you.
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‘Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.’
The scenes from the explosion at a Gaza City hospital are deeply distressing. It is clear there has been a devastating loss of life.
Our thoughts are with those killed, those injured and their loved ones.
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The rare Australian politician capable of honesty.
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the genre would be farcical if it weren't so insidiously consequent
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the way that stupid fucking Smith essay pretended to discover its own fatuity as tho it stood in any doubt
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This is tonight— a necessary event for anyone involved in teaching black writing
Tonight!
@EvelynAraluen
discusses her 2022
@TheStellaPrize
-winning collection Dropbear with Jeanine Leane.
🎟️ Book a Pay What You Can ticket at
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The discussion of literary style under-emphasises the fact that writers are pallid cave-dwelling creatures cursed by cruel gods to confect the lives of others IMHO
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Literary Melbourne suiting up for half a champagne flute before rushing home to check on their various amphibians
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