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Power Publications

A Singular Voice: Essays on Australian art and architecture by Joan Kerr edited by Candice Bruce, Dinah Dysart, Jo Holder

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March 2010, no. 319

Although it is regrettable that A Singular Voice: Essays on Australian art and architecture by Joan Kerr, first proposed in 2003, when Kerr was still alive, has taken so long to appear, it has been worth the wait. The handsomely produced book displays Kerr’s writings to advantage, and the sparing but judicious use of images enhances and reinforces the egalitarian kind of art history that Kerr espoused.

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Prefiguring Cyberculture: An intellectual history edited by Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson, and Alessio Cavallaro

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May 2003, no. 251
Christy Dena reviews 'Prefiguring Cyberculture: An intellectual history' edited by Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson, and Alessio Cavallaro

Many people regard cyberculture as the territory of boffins, sci-fi enthusiasts, and ‘itinerant wanderers’, and inescapably limited to computer technology. However, the term is also applied to a field of research, one that has always been interdisciplinary: traversing philosophy, mathematics, physiology, biology, linguistics, cognitive sciences, physics, and sociology. Prefiguring Cyberculture: An intellectual history exemplifies this cross-disciplinary approach.

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