Join Robert Gott (Naked Ambition), Rebecca Giblin (Chokepoint Capitalism), and Paul Biegler (Why Does It Still Hurt?) at this year’s Queenscliffe Literary Festival.
See below for a full list of author events.
Saturday, 20 May
— 2pm: Robert Gott | A Comedy of Modern Mores
Sunday, 21 May
— 11.30am: Rebecca Giblin | Saving Our Culture
— 5.30pm: Paul Biegler | Why Does It Still Hurt?
‘You’re a politician, a public figure. What on earth were you thinking?’
Up-and-coming junior minister Gregory Buchanan has had a portrait painted of himself by the acclaimed artist Sophie White — a painting she intends to enter in this year’s Archibald Prize. Until then, Gregory has hung it in pride of place on his dining-room wall. It’s a life-sized standing portrait, practically photographic in nature. And it’s a nude.
His wife will be home soon and he thinks the painting will be a pleasant surprise. Even more surprising will be an unexpected accumulation of guests: his sardonic mother,…
A call to action for the creative class and labour movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media
Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers) — or both.
In Chokepoint Capitalism, scholar Rebecca Giblin and writer and activist Cory Doctorow argue we’re in a new era of ‘chokepoint capitalism’, with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that…
Chronic pain is the single biggest cause of human suffering. Yet pain that persists for three months or more is often unrelated to any physical injury. So why does it still hurt?
Research over the last few decades shows that many of us — sufferers of chronic pain and health practitioners alike — are victims of a devilish trick of the nervous system. Where we believe that pain has its root in a damaged body, it is the brain that prolongs the hurting long after the body has healed. This leads to hundreds of billions of dollars being spent each year on treatments that sometimes do nothing and sometimes…
Rebecca Giblin
Rebecca Giblin is an ARC Future Fellow and professor at Melbourne Law…
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Paul Biegler
Paul Biegler is a journalist, academic, and former specialist physician…
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Robert Gott
Robert Gott was born in the Queensland town of Maryborough in 1957, and…
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