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20 Years on from Gangland, We’ve Still a Youth Culture in Crisis
2017
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essay
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , August 2017; -
Young People, the Media and Gangland 20 Years on
2017
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essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 15 March 2017; 'In 1997, Mark Davis published Gangland: Cultural elites and the new generationalism. The book analysed some of the ways in which “young people” were being misrepresented and/or underrepresented in Australian media and intellectual circles circa the 1990s.' -
Two Decades After Gangland, the Precariat Is Ageing and Cultural Scapegoating Thrives
2017
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essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 16 March 2017;'In the second of our articles examining the influential book Gangland 20 years on, its author Mark Davis reflects on the cultural landscape today.
“Has anything changed?” Two decades after I published my book Gangland: Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism, about the domination of the “generation of ‘68” in Australian cultural life, I still get asked that question.'
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Introduction
2010
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— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 201 2010; (p. 42) -
The New ‘Coterie’ : Writing, Community and Collective
2010
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criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue 2010; 'In Gangland: Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism (1997) Mark Davis outlined the increasing nepotism of the Australian literary establishment along generational lines. Post-Gangland, 'coterie' has become a dirty word, even as the literary becomes more and more of a niche market. Yet, literary coteries have been with us prior to the British early modern era and through to (and beyond) Anglo-American modernism. It seems ironic to dispense with ideas of coterie at a time when changing modes of communication and publication are producing both fragmentation and possibilities for new literary communities, exceeding the endist (and endless) rhetoric of decline. If, as Perry argues, 'the notion of coterie production offers a useful way to think about the kinds of networks that provided the social occasions for a great deal of literary production' (108) in the court culture of the Renaissance, might productive parallels be drawn with contemporary literary production in the era of social networking? I'm particularly interested in how coterie, community and collective are operating for younger writers post-Gangland, beyond the ubiquitous 'emerging writers' moniker. In what ways does 'insider trading' continue to play a vital part in communities of writing and reading, considering the dissolving boundaries between writing, reading, publishing, networking and socialising?' (Author's abstract)
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A `Generational' Front
1997
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review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 October 1997; (p. C10)
— Review of Gangland : Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism 1999 single work criticism -
Baby Boomers Leave Behind an Empty Wake
1997
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review
— Appears in: The Age , 17 September 1997; (p. A15)
— Review of Gangland : Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism 1999 single work criticism -
Curse of the Old Farts
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 September 1997; (p. 8) Creme de la Phlegm : Unforgettable Australian Reviews 2006; (p. 306-310)
— Review of Gangland : Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism 1999 single work criticism -
Far-Fetched and Fallacious
1997
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review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 October 1997; (p. rev 28)
— Review of Gangland : Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism 1999 single work criticism -
Gang Warfare
1997
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review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 195 1997; (p. 7-8)
— Review of Gangland : Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism 1999 single work criticism -
Ganging Up
Paul Best
(interviewer),
1998
single work
interview
— Appears in: AQ : Journal of Contemporary Analysis , January-February vol. 70 no. 1 1998; (p. 8-13) Davis discusses his rationale for writing Gangland : Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism and the critical response to the book by Australian commentators. -
Cyberspace and Oz Lit : Mark Davis, McKenzie Wark and the Re-Alignment of Australian Literature
2002
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criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Winter vol. 15 no. 2 2002; (p. 17-36) Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature 2002; (p. 17-36) Ruth Brown argues that 'the globalised milieu in which any literature must now be read is so vastly different from anything that has gone before that it requires a complete re-think of what constitutes a "national" literature' (18). After analysing the arguments of Davis and Wark, she looks at the role of Australian studies offshore in this rethinking, both in terms of celebrity and commodity culture and in critical reflection. -
The New ‘Coterie’ : Writing, Community and Collective
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue 2010; 'In Gangland: Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism (1997) Mark Davis outlined the increasing nepotism of the Australian literary establishment along generational lines. Post-Gangland, 'coterie' has become a dirty word, even as the literary becomes more and more of a niche market. Yet, literary coteries have been with us prior to the British early modern era and through to (and beyond) Anglo-American modernism. It seems ironic to dispense with ideas of coterie at a time when changing modes of communication and publication are producing both fragmentation and possibilities for new literary communities, exceeding the endist (and endless) rhetoric of decline. If, as Perry argues, 'the notion of coterie production offers a useful way to think about the kinds of networks that provided the social occasions for a great deal of literary production' (108) in the court culture of the Renaissance, might productive parallels be drawn with contemporary literary production in the era of social networking? I'm particularly interested in how coterie, community and collective are operating for younger writers post-Gangland, beyond the ubiquitous 'emerging writers' moniker. In what ways does 'insider trading' continue to play a vital part in communities of writing and reading, considering the dissolving boundaries between writing, reading, publishing, networking and socialising?' (Author's abstract) -
Introduction
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 201 2010; (p. 42) -
A Changing of the Literary Guard
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 November 1997; (p. 11-12)
Subjects:
- The First Stone : Some Questions About Sex and Power 1995 single work prose
- The Hand that Signed the Paper 1994 single work novel
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