Meanjin Vol 83, No 4

Meanjin Quarterly

• Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9780522880601
• Topic: Literature
• Index: Literature

The power of the artist has never been more crucial to our future — nor more imperilled. When mercenary technologies are deployed against writers, cultural practice is reduced to consumption, human creativity to generative 'artificial intelligence', and new work to 'content'. 'Literature and art, poetry and drama do not spring into being at the word of command, ' wrote Founding Editor Clem Christesen in our very first editorial. 'Their life is a continuous process of growing within itself, and its suppression is death.' Since 1940, Meanjin has proudly championed the work of writers and artists. Every editor has taken an uncompromising stand on the public value of this work, and Meanjin 83.4 Summer 2024 is no different. We move through Ambelin Kwaymullina's knowledge systems. Find Ben Walter's remote. Sit down with Gerald Murnane. Greet new life with Leni Shilton. Reimagine George Williams's university. Impose a new inconvenience on Ella Mittas. Throw down Nicholas Pickard's gauntlet. Ask Rose Harriman's powerful question. Our reading begins with Joe Geia's Carumba Institute Meanjin Oration: Uncle shows us that while culture evolves across millennia, it's how we respect it today that counts — because it's artists who keep the voice alive.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Sing for the Black: From the Act to Treaty
• Editorial
• Culture is not ‘publicly available content’
• A university, not a corporation
• The art of play
• A white horse biting the sky
• Severine sees
• Hazard lights
• Et in Arcadia Ego
• The Maze
• Who’s afraid of the ABC, apart from the ABC itself?
• The tent village at Musgrave Park
• Smooth fade
• Scandal
• Seven snakes
• Where’s the remote?
• Tales from the Crip/The power to keep the stars apart
• A landscape of inconvenience
• A donor story
• Gerald Murnane
• Indigenous Futurisms and AI
• Poetry
• Australia in three books
• The voyage out
• The Autobiopornographer
• Touch my body
• How novel is the Novel Prize?
• Country centred metaphors/rockets
• Returning Home Again
• @ClanC #overflow
• Unbraiding seeds of home
• Dialogue
• Your heart sir
• Self-portrait as Mourning Cuttlefish
• queen mother coloniser
• Night birth
• This is a true story