Turner, Bethaney

Contributions

• Information-Age Guerrillas
  Feature
  After balaclava-clad Zapatistas seized control of a handful of southern Mexican towns on New Year’s Eve, 1993, and soon after became implicated in the first wide-scale use of the Internet in a warlike scenario, it was thought that the age of postmodern Internet warfare had arrived. However, while the centrality of the Internet to the movement’s...Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 8 No. 2 (2005): 'print'
• Taste in the Anthropocene: The Emergence of “Thing-power” in Food Gardens
  Articles
  Taste and Lively Matter in the Anthropocene This paper is concerned with the role of taste in relation to food produced in backyard or community gardens. Taste, as outlined by Bourdieu, is constructed by many factors driven primarily by one’s economic position as well as certain cultural influences. Such arguments tend to work against a naïve reading of the “natural” attributes of...Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 17 No. 1 (2014): taste
• The Right Stuff? The Original Double Jay as Site for Youth Counterculture
  Articles
  On 19 January 1975, Australia’s first youth station 2JJ (Double Jay) launched itself onto the nation’s airwaves with a NASA-style countdown and You Only Like Me ‘Cause I’m Good in Bed by Australian band Skyhooks. Refused airtime by the commercial stations because of its explicit sexual content, this song was a clear signifier of the new...Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 17 No. 6 (2014): counterculture
• Curate
  Editorial
  We live in the “age of curation”, according to Eliot van Buskirk. In this issue of M/C Journal we bring together authors from diverse fields to explore what this ‘age’ looks, sounds and feels like. In so doing, the papers highlight both the ubiquitous and contested nature of curation. In this collection, authors variously...Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 18 No. 4 (2015): curate
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