‘This Magazine is for Airing Personal Complaints’ (1983)
In my own city I am but a consumer. I work hard at my designated task, which is to document a personal history of my purchases and stock-take carefully for…
VOLA X (Introduction)
In 1983, a long way before Leos Carax fixed on Herman Melville’s novel Pierre ou les ambiguïtés (as he knew it) for a film and TV project, I considered writing…
Poetics of Pop: The Titles of Things (1982)
Introduction: I commissioned this text as part of a thirty-minute audiovisual piece titled Poetics of Pop, presented at the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre on 6 October 1982: a combination…
The Canonisation of Junk (1982)
The motivations for this article originally had their genesis in a knee-jerk reaction to the barrage of bad rock journalism that is continuing to pick up momentum here in Melbourne.…
Caught … Sunless and The State of Things (1984)
Beyond six rivers and three mountain ranges rises Zora, a city that no one, having seen it, can forget. But not because, like other memorable cities, it leaves an unusual…