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Kate Douglas <[log in to unmask]>
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M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture
<http://www.media-culture.org.au>

Published by School of English, Media Studies
and Art History, University of Queensland,
Australia 4072

Edited by Kate Douglas and Felicity Meakins
Feature Writer: Michael Clyne

Announcement of Release: 'SELF'

Me? "I" am everywhere. The 'self' permeates
contemporary culture. Through capitalist
individualism and conservative politics, 'self'
must be considered first above the needs of the
group - "looking after no. 1". In therapeutic,
religious and consumerist discourses of self-
improvement, self-help or self-
actualisation, 'self' is obscured; an entity
which needs to be sought and found, changed or
accommodated, an entity which one needs to
become "in touch with". Within these
permutations "self" carries the assumption of
its own existence, as either a stable,
unchanging entity or as a contextually
sensitive and dynamic identity.

Feature:

Michael Clyne “Saving Us From Them -- The
Discourse of Exclusion on Asylum Seekers”

1. Performances and the Public Self

Sandy Carmago “‘Mind the Gap’: The Multi-
Protagonist Film Genre, Soap Opera, and the
Emotive Blockbuster”

Deidre Heddon  “Performing the Self”

Angel Lin “In “Modernity and the Self:
Explorations of the (Non-) Self-determining
Subject in South Korean TV Dramas”

Andy Miller “What is Real? Where Fact Ends and
Fiction Begins in the Writing of Paul Theroux”

Mark Peterson “Choosing the Wasteland: The
Social Construction of Self as Viewer in the
U.S.”

2. The Self and the Physical

Paula Gardner “The Perpetually Sick Self: The
Cultural Promotion and Self-Management of Mood
Illness”

Nadine Henley “The Healthy vs the Empty Self:
Protective vs Paradoxical Behaviour”

Kerry Kid “Called to Self-Care, or to Efface
Self? Self-interest and Self-splitting in the
Diagnostic Experience of Depression”

Derek Wallace “ ‘Self’ and the Problem of
Consciousness”

3. Representing Selves, Consuming Selves.

Matt Adams “Ambiguity: The Reflexive Self &
Alternatives”

Gabrielle Dean “Portrait of the Self: Victorian
Technologies of Identity Invention”

Lelia Green “Who is Being Helped When We Help
Our Self?”

Simone Pettigrew “Consumption and the Self-
Concept”

Ianto Ware“Conflicting Concepts of Self and The
Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival”

What this collection of articles succeeds in
doing is to demonstrate that the self is
multitudinous and changing, along with the
various stakeholders invested in these selves.
Just as philosophers, social scientists,
behavioural and medical scientists have been
investigating the existence and significance of
individual consciousness, self-perception, self-
promotion and other notions of "the self" for
centuries, the research included in this
feature demonstrates the continuing need to do
so.






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