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Issue 8
Summer 2007
Art & Lies I
Society; Politics; History & Performance

Issue 8

Art & Lies I

Society; Politics; History & Performance

The School of Lies

Paul Monaghan
University of Melbourne
"There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false." Harold Pinter

Deception, Loss and Modernity in Fiji

John O’Carroll
Charles Sturt University
In his poem, ‘The Loneliness of Islands’, Satendra Nandan writes of a ‘yearning, this longing/for a place that is/ no more’ (2006: 74). He writes not so much of the post-coup Fijian landscape, though he does that too. Rather, he writes of a world that has, quite simply, vanished.

Fabric(-ation)s Beyond Measure

The History of the Lie of Innocence

Rod Le Cudennec
Deakin University
This paper is concerned with the history of the lie of innocence, its use in contemporary political dialogue and its representation in literature throughout the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.

Manning Clark: Writing history to understand the world we live in

Samantha Young
Deakin University
Manning Clark’s A History of Australia excluded Aborigines and women from history, yet by privileging narrative, aesthetics and philosophy in his writing, by blurring of the line between fact and fiction, art and lies, Clark’s methodology was prophetic.

Multiculturalism/ Impersonation/ Globalization

Michael Meehan
Deakin University
Culture on the run. Cultures migrating. Migrating across cultures. This paper offers another way of approaching the problem. The argument is a relatively simple one. Simple in theory; highly complex in practice.

Theatre and Philosophy: The lies in Plato’s closet

Paul Monaghan
University of Melbourne
The relationship between theatre and philosophy has certainly been a problematic one. As Martin Puchner notes, on the one hand, ‘despite its tendency towards the material, the theatre has … fascinated a discipline that shuns immediate physicality’.

Manoeuvring Light: utopian urbanity and its ecological cost

Geoff Berry
Monash University
Across the widely divergent and complex histories of settlement civilizations, few symbols could be said to carry as consistent a charge as the figure of light.

Lies We Live

The Last Economist: Adam Smith and the transvaluation of values (cyber capitalism in DeLillo’s Comospolis)

Scott Rawlings
Deakin University
In The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche argues that a shift occurred in Greek culture and thought from a tension between what he called the Dionysian and the Apollonian to one between the Dionysian and the Socratic.

The Lie of the Ground: Aesthetics and Australian Football

Stephen Alomes
Deakin University
In the early 1900s, the England Test cricket captain C. B. Fry was touring Australia. A talented sporting all-rounder he had already equalled the world-record for the long jump, been an England soccer international, a senior rugby player and had received a first class honours degree in classics at O

Aporia Australis: Lies and Responsibility

Grayson Cooke
Central Queensland University
As something of a prefatory move, I would like to begin with the proposition that Australia is a particularly appropriate place around which to structure a discussion of the lie, because in some way Australia was founded on a lie, and lives the reverberations of this lie daily.

Lies and Liars Uncovered

Perverse Performances by Skilful Liars: Shakespeare’s Iago and Mamet’s Billy and Mike

John Jacobs
Deakin University
Imagine there is a knock on the door of your office at the University. You call out ‘Come in’ and a student enters. She has a problem that she wants you, the lecturer, to help her with.

Re-inscribing the Historic Film Frame

Dirk de Bruyn
Deakin University
In this paper I am interpreting the theme of ‘lies’ through the fractal-ed prism of trauma, in the sense that the overwhelming immediacy of a traumatic experience is no lie but is REAL.

Documentary Deception

Ian Gaskell
University of the South Pacific
As truth is to lies, so fact is to fiction, at least in the world of documentary. It is a dubious assertion, but as Wilde would say, perfectly phrased.

Genre Lies

Documentary Facts and Lies

Simon Wilmot
Deakin University
I am sitting to the side of the meeting room of the Wunthulpu Cultural Centre in Coen on Cape York. The room has been turned into the Federal Court of Australia through an arrangement of the worn, community-centre furniture and a large banner displaying the Australian Coat of Arms.

‘Stop telling me stories’ (she said)

Stephen Goddard
Deakin University
I remember when I was young, an advertising billboard poster proudly proclaimed: Coke Adds Life. An anti-advertising group were always at the ready to delete a D and graffiti a cross over the F to create the more believable slogan: Coke Ads Lie.

Melancholy Secrets: Rosa Praed’s Encrypted Father

Jennifer Rutherford
University of Melbourne
In their classic study of melancholy Torok and Abraham(1994) argue that melancholy is occasioned not by the loss of an object of love, but by the secret this loss entails.

Pseudologia Phantastica: Performance, Discursive Lies and Critical Fictions

Barry Laing
Victoria University
Hello. My name is Peter Foster, I am from Queensland, and I am here to help. I’d like to acknowledge my ‘subject position’ as a white, Australian, male ... and shall we say, a ‘confidence man’?

Few in today’s world still believe in the idea of a singular, monolithic ‘Truth’ such as has dominated Western belief systems for so long.

We are also acutely aware of the ‘tapestry of lies’ of all kinds that surround us every day, seemingly allied with the experience of modernity, the expression of loss and dislocation in art, and contemporary philosophical, historical, and political perspectives.

Lies in art, lies in culture, lies in politics: this is the tapestry that the essays in this issue of Double Dialogues seek to unpick … but also at times to weave.

 

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