CONTENTS

Editorial
Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke

Essays

US Cultural Studies: Oxymoron? - MARCUS BREEN
Adventures in Malley Country: Concerning Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake - ROSS CHAMBERS
Caviar and Friendship: Sensational Trials and the Reinvention of Public Space - NICOLA EVANS
Ethics, Morality and the Formation of Cultural Studies Intellectuals - GARY WICKHAM

Desecration

Introduction - PETER READ and DEBORAH ROSE
The Witness in Contempt: Reflections on Overfamiliarity, Pain and Desecration  - MARIA TUMARKIN
'Desecration' in a Place of Refuge - DIANA GLAZEBROOK
And the Dead Remain Behind - PETER READ
The Rain Keeps Falling - DEBORAH ROSE

New Writing

The Maternal Heroine - JANE MESSER
Provenance: A Fall, a Leap - JANE MESSER
Chedi Gong - ANDREW LEGGETT
The Telling Room - SARAH HOLLAND-BATT
Elephant - LUKE BEESLEY
The Pleating of History: Weaving the Threads of Nationhood - MARTIN BALL

Provocations

Making Culture Bloom - IAIN MCCALMAN
Introductory Notes on an Ecology of Practices - ISABELLE STENGERS

Reviews

BRETT FARMER on Ordinary Television
SUSAN LUCKMAN on Nudity
SARA WILLS on Refuge Australia
PAUL WILLIAMS on Love Saves the Day
FIONA GILES on Solitary Sex
ALAN MCKEE on Remote Control
KEN GELDER on Haunted Earth