81.1 Autumn 2022

Published 16 March 2022

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In a profound and personal essay, Lucia Osborne-Crowley writes on learning to embrace anger as a multi-faceted emotion. Anger can be an act of caring, anger can be a force for personal power, and inter-personal good; anger, she says, ‘can sit alongside love and hope and connection rather than being their opposite.’

Guy Rundle studies the rise of the Knowledge Class, the laptop tapping workers at the core of the west’s new economy, and details the challenge — and opportunity — this growing group poses for traditional progressive politics.

Na’ama Carlin found her first pregnancy challenging, a minefield of existential and practical complication. Then she was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer.

Author Alice Pung writes on the vexed politics of ‘diversity’ in the Australian publishing industry. Futurist Mark Pesce is anxious about the social implications of the Facebook ‘metaverse’, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Critic and curator Chris McAuliffe looks at the hidden and very complicated history of the Australian flag. El Gibbs writes on the hidden pandemic: of living with both covid and disability.

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Lucia Osborne-Crowley