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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Theserialeavesdropper Has Logged on : Toward an Aural Equivalent of the Gaze
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'Four teen girls behind me on the bus are discussing how they'd like to die. Usually, on my commute, I'd be partaking of a true crime podcast, in which hosts tell stories of women whose agency has been stolen for all time. These chicks, though, speak with total conviction when agreeing that, if they absolutely 'had' to die, crashing a red Lamborghini would be the primo way to go. Millennial Thelma and Louise, you make my heart soar. I keep listening - it's hard to not to - and reliving that adolescent capacity to be aspirational, cynical and palpably earnest, all at once. When you're dying to be heard, and no one's listening. Of all the conversations I've overheard in my life, this is fast becoming a favourite.'  (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon The Lifted Brow no. 41 March 2019 15883747 2019 periodical issue

    'In 2006, a shopping centre in Queensland’s Hervey Bay agreed to de-install a controversial anti-loitering device on the basis of unlawful discrimination and direct physical harm. Installed in 1996 at the recommendation of local police, the ‘Mosquito’ emits a continuous tone at a frequency of 17.4 kHz in order to deter antisocial youth. &e device’s efficacy depended on the fact that our ability to hear high frequencies rapidly deteriorates with age. Arguments both for and against this device pivot on the way it deliberately manipulates auditory perception to target a specific, presumably undesirable, demographic. What we heard as teenagers—what we were capable of hearing—is very different to what we’re hearing now.' (Editorial introduction)

         2019     pg. 27-33
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