Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 One Hundred Years of Sumbiotude : Resisting the Extinction of Emotions
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'I am a child of the Anthropocene, born in 1953. I have lived in a period of history also known as the 'Great Acceleration'. The speed and scale of material change since 1953 is breathtaking, so much so that I sometimes feel I am a passive observer of this change, not a participant. I struggle to contemplate it all, bogged down within a form of magical realism where the uncanny, fantastic, disruptive and improbable weave in and out of what once was predictable phenology, the patterns and rhythms of life.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Griffith Review Getting On no. 68 April 2020 19074872 2020 periodical issue 'In a world where seventy is the new fifty, old age isn’t what it used to be. As the proportion of older Australians continues to rise, the lived experience of everyone, be they in care or looking after an aged relative, will be intertwined intimately with the phenomenon of longer lives. But longevity brings with it urgent issues: postponement of retirement, the question of financing extended life, how to forge a society that can accommodate the needs of a majority older population with the dynamism of the young.' (Publication summary) 2020 pg. 159-168
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