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I opened up my last issue of ABR to see my photograph. It’s there because I was mentioned at a conference at La Trobe as evidence of an ascendant antiintellectualism. I suspect my new reputation as a villain on the black hat side of the Culture Wars has a lot to do with my play, Dead White Males, or, more accurately, the fact that the play proved popular with audiences. Dead White Males satirised the dominant theology of the humanities, variously called postmodernism, post-structuralism, deconstructionism, social constructionism or what you will.
... (read more)The Ghost Names Sing by Dennis Haskell & Album of Domestic Exiles by Andrew Sant
Desirelines: An unusual family memoir by Peter Wherrett and Richard Wherrett
Personal Best edited by Tessa Duder and Peter McFarlane
From Denis Altman
Dear Editor,
I suspect I’m the ‘(male) baby boomer academic who should have known better’ referred to by Delia Falconer in her piece in the Gangland symposium (ABR, November 1997).
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