The virtual republic : Australia's culture wars of the 1990s
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The virtual republic : Australia's culture wars of the 1990s
Allen & Unwin, 1997
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Culture has become a contested zone. Media attention has thrust into the limelight a host of cultural issues, ranging from political correctness to multiculturalism, postmodernism and a range of Australian writers, such as David Williamson, Helen Garner, Helen Demidenko/Darville, Les Murray and Manning Clark. In this wide-ranging survey of Australian cultural life in the 1990s, McKenzie Wark asks if the various fronts of the culture wars, in literature, higher education and the media, might be connected to each other, and connected also to a wider question of what it means to talk about a possible Australian republic.
Table of Contents
Introducing the virtual republicPART ONE: ROOTS1 When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for the remote control2 Mapping the Antipodes3 The Libertarian line4 A secret history of Sydney postmodernismPART TWO: AERIALS5 The Demidenko effect6 Political correctness and the perils of the pale penis people7 Postmodernism meets the attack of the killer Darwinists!8 The fall of the magic kingdom9 Fair go, PaulinePART THREE: NOTES
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