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y separately published work icon Philament no. 26 November 2020 20842780 2020 periodical issue 'This twenty-sixth issue of Philament is based on a conference held at the University of Sydney in 2019. With the theme “Bodies of Work,” the event brought together interdisciplinary research exploring how the body shapes our mind, interactions with others, and the creation of self and art. The breadth and depth of the speakers’ different perspectives compelled the conference organisers—Vivien Nara, Ruby Kilroy, and me—to facilitate a broader forum for these discussions. With that goal in mind, this special issue of Philament was born.' (Isabell Wentworth, Editorial introduction) 
y separately published work icon Philament no. 25 September 2019 18044308 2019 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Philament vol. 24 no. 2 December 2018 15409486 2018 periodical issue

'The circus is back in town. Senate Estimates hearings on Thursday 25 October, 2018, revealed that Simon Birmingham, in his term as Minister for Education, personally vetoed over $4 million worth of public funding reserved for competitively tendered research projects. These projects had been recommended for funding approval by the Australian Research Council (ARC) after progressing through one of the most rigorous peer review processes in the world. In keeping with previous statistics, the approval rate for applications in the 2017–18 funding period was below 20%.5 The ministerial rejection of these grants was not made public until the Senate Estimates session in question, and the ARC representatives present for Senate Estimates—Chief Executive Officer Sue Thomas and Executive General Officer Leanne Harvey—repeatedly stated that the “minister is the decision-maker,” and that they were never provided with any reasons for his decision to decline the funding.6 Two factors are particularly disheartening in this whole affair: firstly, each vetoed project was within the already chronically underfunded field of the humanities, with no other fields of research being similarly impacted; secondly, these rejections were largely targeted at early-career researchers, with the termination of three Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (totalling $1,057,828) and two Future Fellowships (totalling $1,691,116). Liberal Senator James Paterson immediately leapt to the defence of his government’s decision: “I just want to take the opportunity for placing on the record my appreciation to [the minister] for his careful stewardship of taxpayer dollars.”' (Editorial introduction)

y separately published work icon Philament New Waves : Twenty-First-Century Feminisms no. 23 Blythe Worthy (editor), Chris Rudge (editor), 2017 12930313 2017 periodical issue

WITH this special volume of Philament, edited by Blythe Worthy and myself, the journal moves into a new stage of its life. For our last published volume, number 22, “Precarity,” we decided to print a small number of physical copies, largely to satisfy our own curiosities about the cost of the printing process, but also to see whether the aesthetic value of these digital pages, lovingly typeset as they are, would carry over to the parchment. Happy with the results of our experiment, we have decided that we shall this time print a few more copies than the last time, an opportunity made possible thanks to Blythe Worthy’s strong advocacy of the journal and the resultant support we have received from the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC).' (Chris Rudge : Editorial Note)

y separately published work icon Philament Precarity no. 22 December 2016 10648450 2016 periodical issue

'This issue of Philament, our twenty-second, embraces a range of poets, as well as writers, essayists, and reviewers. Adam Hulbert’s study of Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock draws attention to the many sonic figurations in Lindsay’s novel, offering a fresh reading of the precarious fates of the protagonists in this “preeminent antipodean weird tale.” Blythe Worthy’s study of Rachel Kushner’s 2013 novel The Flamethrowers offers a timely problematisation of contemporary identity politics, illuminating new ways in which the novel “exposes feminism’s distinctive markings of precarity.” And Aleksandr Andreas Wansbrough’s essay on Lars von Trier’s Melancholia allows us to see the film’s prologue as an example of avant-garde video art. Critics will have already perceived the way in which Melancholia allegorises Earth’s cosmic precarity, revealing this planet’s vulnerability in a universe filled with other celestial bodies, all of them potential collision threats. However, Wansbrough’s essay also shows us how von Trier’s film makes genre and aesthetic categories equally precarious—elements ever threatening to collide. The issue’s short stories—Angelina Koseva’s “The Red Room” and Sian Pain’s “Wildcat”—offer intensive glimpses at precarious milieux in the contemporary cityscape, while varied works of poetry, by Philip Porter, Mona Zahra Attamimi, and Dimitra Harvey, chart their slightly more abstract courses toward this issue’s theme. As always, it is hoped that this issue encourages more scholarship on its theme, and prompts postgraduates in particular to submit to Philament’s future issues.' (From : Facing Precarity)

y separately published work icon Philament Terror Australis no. 21 February 2016 9310636 2016 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Philament no. 20 February 2015 8324286 2015 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Philament Surface/Depth no. 19 2014 7352377 2014 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Philament : Borders, Regions, Worlds Borders, Regions, Worlds no. 16 August 2010 Z1720390 2010 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Philament : Absence no. 15 December 2009 Z1654177 2009 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Philament : Sense and Sensation no. 14 August 2009 Z1628015 2009 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Philament Hauntings no. 13 December 2008 Z1562417 2008 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Philament Habits & Habitat no. 12 June 2008 Z1562232 2008 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Philament Bound no. 11 December 2007 Z1540128 2007 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Philament Surveillance no. 10 June 2007 Z1527530 2007 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Philament no. 9 December 2006 Z1341572 2006 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Philament Model no. 8 June 2006 Z1318847 2006 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Philament no. 7 December 2005 Z1246185 2005 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Philament no. 6 July 2005 Z1246162 2005 periodical issue
y separately published work icon Philament Ornament no. 5 December - January 2004-2005 Z1179027 2004-2005 periodical issue
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