The Swamp
by Nandi Chinna
suburbs fall away and we forget
our urgent imperatives;
our feet sink into the lake’s edge
giddy with the sky’s reflection…
This issue found its genesis in the Day of Ideas (2015) at the University of Western Australia. As Professor Ted Snell explains in his preface, this marvellously meandering day took as its centre the concept of the flâneur.
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Contents
John Docker
The Flâneur under Water, the Flâneur as Dancing Star: creating a conversation between Walter Benjamin, T.S. Eliot, and Hannah Arendt – a Meditation
Megan Brown
Wander down Bourke Street
Nandi Chinna
Direct Address: The Beeliar Wetlands, a Place of Many Skins
Dr Julian Bolleter, Mackenzie Buck, Sam Sweetman
Going Public: Auditing Perth’s Public Landscapes for Urban Infill
Sherman Young
Flâneur 2.0
Dr Sunil Badami
The Boulevardier of the Information Superhighway: Disconnection and Discovery in the Virtual Global Village
Ross Gibson
Riding with the Mobile Oneiric Combinator
Stuart Highway Rhapsody
Breezeway
Catherin Bull
Scavenging the Suburbs: Auditing Perth for 1 Million Infill Dwellings
Mags Webster
A Review of Tracy Ryan’s ‘Hoard’ and Jan Napier’s ‘Thylacine’
