AustLit

'We live in the age of new catastrophes. An exile's life is about fighting against oppression in the country of birth, gaining knowledge, demanding justice and freedom for all the world's people. Being an exile has taught me the true meaning of commitment, resoluteness and resistance of oppression and injustice.' (Introduction) 
 

'With such a voltage difference, the electrical energy passing through the resistor is transformed into heat. If there is too much potential difference, the resistor can burn out. It's an inefficiency in a circuit. You know how your laptop gets hot? That kind of inefficiency. The more efficient a system becomes, the less resistance there is, the less wasted heat energy. At least in theory. And in yet another cosmos, the State would like its politics to run with this kind of efficiency, without resistance. Power surging through the system untrammelled. But this kind of absolute system is impossible, for all systems have in-built inefficiencies for power to work against: It would not be possible,' Michel Foucault said, 'for power relations to exist without points of insubordination which, by definition, are means of escape'. ' (Introduction)

'Wholesale collapse of Earth's planetary systems that sustain life as we know it is happening unevenly across the world. The poorest populations are already experiencing this. As the basic prerequisites of life — water, food and energy are becoming more contested. Political violence is on the rise. There will be no peace! The scientific evidence for climate and ecological collapse is very strong. However, it has been much too meekly expressed. ' (Introduction)
 

'It's nighttime in the desert, moments before the opening credits of the acclaimed feature documentary In My Blood It Runs. We're in a dusty yard enclosed in cyclone-wire fencing with 10-year-old multi-lingual Arrernte/ Garrwa healer Dujuan Hoosan. He's running joyfully, a firework in one hand. The danger and beauty of marking presence in the darkness with explosive devices is captivating. The hand-held camera tracking his exuberance is enchanted and enchanting. Giggles bubble into the open night.' (Introduction) 
 

'Underfoot is a series of virtual multimedia tours uncovering the secret histories of Footscray. Two old friends, both long-time Footscray residents, bring an intimate lens to local history as they travel through the archives looking for people like them : Queers, migrants, radicals, and artists.' (Introduction)

'Ray Filar writes that sex work is service work, that capitalism dangles money and celebrity as gains one can make in the field of 'erotic professionalism'. This illusory and elusive promise of autonomy, wealth and desirability elides the precarity and complexity of how race, gender, ability, class, and technological advances facilitate disparities in sex workers' experiences and expectations.' (Introduction)