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Meanjin 84.2 Winter 2025 is out today!
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"In Elon, incel or incel-adjacent members of the manosphere who live lonely lives without prospects finally get to imagine that they have political leaders: powerful people they can admire and aspire to be."
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Mind-numbing sleep-woking Lucy Hamilton
The word 'woke' is tiresome. More though, it's a cliché that terminates our ability to debate. In Australian civic discourse, and internationally, the word is used to demarcate lines of battle. In 2025, Australian politicians are hoping it can turn a motley coalition of voters into the government's base. Woke emerged as a concept in US Black culture in the 1920s to signal people who were aware of how the system trapped them in disadvantage. Later, progressives borrowed (stole?) the label to celebrate that awareness more broadly, with regard to varied subjects like human rights for minorities, women, workers and refugees. By 2020. the term had becom Embrace Australia's finest writers: subscribe to Meanjin
Excited to announce another essay in @meanjin.bsky.social , and this time I’m right up the front.
People across the spectrum get worked up about “woke”. On the Right, they’ve invented an inchoate enemy that can serve any need. Centre & Left can deride it as trivial or corrosive. #Meanjin
I’ve got a long essay on AI slop and fascism and the rest in the new @meanjin.bsky.social
Wrote it back in Jan but the core stupidity of this grifting industry has not changed. Check it out!
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We are launching Winter 2025 on 25 June!
At Readings Carlton, with Claire G. Coleman, Sophie Finlay, Thirangie Jayatilake, and a special conversation with Ouyang Yu and Cher Tan.
This one is not to miss.
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“A Coalition senator… let a fundamental truth drop.
‘Cognitive science indicates a thing called the illusory truth effect—that if you say it often enough, people will start to believe it’…”
‘Dutton: A catalogue of falsehoods’ by @danielhurst.bsky.social meanjin.com.au/essays/dutto...
“For young people today, buying a home without help or inheritance has become something of a Sisyphean task (it is worth noting I fall into the latter camp)…”
‘Thou shalt not covet thy prime minister’s property’ by @rachelwithers.bsky.social meanjin.com.au/essays/thou-...
Timely weekend reading from our latest edition, Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025—
“It fell to the current Australian Parliament to consider new laws to meet new problems, even while the world was changing around us…”
‘The Gambling Evil’ by Andrew Lemon meanjin.com.au/essays/the-g...
and Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn reviews Batmanians by Sammy Oravec:
'Guided by star signs and SSRIs, Oravec’s dreamy, shambolic prose merges individual narratives into a collective hallucination.'
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New reviews on the Meanjin Daily!
First, @dionkagan.bsky.social reviews Time Together by Luke Horton @lukehorton.bsky.social / @scribepub.bsky.social.
'Holidays are rarely an escape from trouble and relational tension, but more often magnify them.'
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We are launching on Wurundjeri country on 26 March!
FEAT. @rachelwithers.bsky.social, Suma Narayan, @lucysussex.bsky.social, @jessielilley.bsky.social and Raeden Richardson!
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Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025!
Energy and life and the body. Disappointment and passion and pride. The inexorable labour of working toward the just.
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The work of desire, the work of identity, the work of standing still. The work of giving life, the work of telling truth, the work of making a home.
This season, Meanjin’s writers are calling us to account.
Meanjin 84.1 Autumn 2025 is out on 19 March.
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Tom Doig is the winner of the 2024 Hilary McPhee Award for his essay ‘Ten years on from Hazelwood: last decade’s second-worst disaster’, published in Meanjin 83.1 Autumn 2024.
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What a year for Australian literature!
In the latest for Meanjin Daily, a selection of Meanjin writers shared their favourite books of 2024.
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