New Philosopher Magazine #27 Family

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Womankind Magazine #21: A New Era For Women

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Issue #21 ‘Denmark’ has arrived. It was a shock to walk past an old dream the other day, slumped against the footpath, dirty, scratched, and somewhat more diminutive than in my recollections. In my youth, this (now rusting) blue lump of metal was my symbol for grown-up success – it was the car that I’d drive to my dream job as a successful career woman. But always out of reach financially, this car remained a dream for years, before being long forgotten as other dreams parked in its view. Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard was never fooled by shiny pieces of metal. If you could wish for one thing in your life, what would it be? For Kierkegaard, it wasn’t wealth, power, or even fame, since such pleasures fade over time, and ultimately disappoint, much like my dream car. In her work titled Interiors, Danish photographer Trine Søndergaard photographs a renaissance castle uninhabited for 50 years. For Søndergaard, the starkness of the rooms – devoid of people, decoration or alterations for half a century – was oddly captivating. The rooms existed in a state of waiting, of ‘what next?’ For Kierkegaard, too, it was this state that the philosopher dreamed of. “Pleasure disappoints, possibility never,” he declared. “If I were to wish for anything,” it would be for the “passionate sense of the potential”. By paring back, and making space, we welcome possibility. By clearing space in our lives, we make way for the new. Antonia Case, Editor-in-Chief, Womankind magazine ...Show more

Womankind #19 Flamingo

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Telling someone to “grow up” is often taken badly. No one likes to be told that they’re acting like a child. But to ‘grow up’ is part of the constantly evolving human condi- tion. We always should be, in a sense, growing up. Psychologists prefer to call it gaining ‘personal authority’, which means taki ng charge of your self, your health, your behaviour, your destiny. So rather than relying on the consent or approval of others, or waiting for other people to reveal a pathway forward, you instead understand that the choices you make are your responsibility. You are the gatekeeper to your own life. For some, this feeling of ultimate freedom over the course of one’s destiny can feel too overwhelming; it’s easier to re- sign yourself to a fate that’s ultimately in another’s hands. Much like a child patiently waits for dinner, or for permission to play outside, you continue to wait for that signal from others, which may or may not ever arrive. Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre argues that most people never accept this gaping responsibility over the course of their lives, but instead will blame society, religion, luck, parents, and so on when things go wrong. But to do so, argues the philosopher, is to live in “bad faith”. We must, he believes, accept that we have the freedom to choose and direct the course of our lives. To do so is to gain ‘personal authority’, or what’s commonly referred to as ‘growing up’. Antonia Case, Editor-in-Chief, Womankind magazine ...Show more

Womankind Feb-April 2020

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The Lifted Brow #34 by COONEY SAM

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Issue 34 includes: cover art by Prudence Flint. Nonfiction from Rebecca Harkins-Cross, Jana Perković, Hayley Singer, Nick Taras, Peter Polites, Susana Moreira Marques, Simona Castricum, Anushka Jasraj, Bastian Fox Phelan, Alice Robinson, Richard M Hanson, Nicole McKenzie, Michael Dulaney, Chloë Reeson, Stephen Pham, Anne Boyer, Caren Beilin, and Elizabeth Flux. Fiction by Shaun Prescott, Ben Walter, and Houyem Ferchichi (translated by Znaidi Ali). Poetry by Hayan Charara, Patricia Smith, and Winnie Dunn. A conversation between Hayan Charara and Patricia Smith; a conversation between Bruce Pascoe and Kim Mahood. Comics and artwork from Charline Bataille, Ella Sanderson, Merv Heers, Steve Tierney, Loveis Wise, Grace Rosario Perkins, Jini Maxwell, Eaten Fish, Safdar Ahmed, A. Murray, Rachel Ang, Johdi Zutt, Lizzie Nagy, Jo Waite, Tommi Parrish, Tara Booth, Anna Di Mezza, Jose Quintanar, Mickey Zacchilli, Rafferty Amor, David Cragg, Felix Decombat, and Michael Hawkins. And, as always, Benjamin Law and his mum Jenny's sex and relationships advice column. ...Show more

Paris Review Issue 203 (Winter 2012) by Lorin Stein

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The "Paris Review" is a groundbreaking publication bringing together fiction, poetry and prose from great writers all over the world. Its legendary interview series alone represents the single most important body of work that celebrates writing about writing. Publishing quarterly, each issue is a tribut e to the possibilities of the written word and under Lorin Stein's canny editorial leadership it looks set to continue and expand on what it has achieved in its illustrious life to date. ...Show more

The Monthly July 2014

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Womankind Magazine #20: Western Yogi's in India by Antonia CASE (ed.)

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New Philosopher #22: Living in End Times

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Quarterly Essay 54: Dragon's Tail: The Lucky Country after the China Boom by Andrew Charlton

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In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton explores the supercharged rise of China and considers Australia's future as the Chinese dragon stirs and shifts. China's rise has been perhaps the most significant economic event in two centuries, occurring 100 times more quickly and on a scale 1000 times larger than Br itain's Industrial Revolution. Since 2000, Australia has been an essential part of this transformation, providing the raw materials to feed China's frantic manufacture of steel vertebrae for everything from cars and trucks to railways, apartments and office towers. China's appetite for resources has made us richer than ever before, but it has also drained the competitiveness from many parts of our economy, leaving us vulnerable. In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton shows that China's growth model is now reaching its limit, and the world's most populous economy faces a challenging transition. Whether China crashes, or crashes through, this will have dramatic implications for Australia, slowing the demand for our resources and forcing us to reassess the foundations of our wealth. Charlton looks at ways to revitalise the Australian economy and secure our prosperity in a changing world. "Understanding China's growth model helps explain why australia has done so well in the twenty-first century. But it also explains why, at the same time, our economic anxiety is reaching a zenith: why holden is leaving, why the budget is in such an apparent quagmire, why house prices are soaring, why the dollar is so volatile. China's growth has brought us a windfall, but it is a precarious sort of prosperity." - Andrew Charlton, Dragon's Tail ...Show more

Monthly Magazine Dec-Jan 2013

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WOMANKIND #17 Aug-Oct 18

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What’s inside: News from nowhere How to live a life How the west tamed the unicorn Letters from Glasgow Mary, Queen of Scots My life as a bookseller Learning to love your shadow Nature talk The magic of hand weaving A stitch in time Settled in Shetland Destined to change What lies beneath Naturally so The therapy of walking View from my window Womankind’s cooking challenge A history of the unicorn The massacre of Glencoe Photographers’ Award XV Winners Homeward bound ...Show more