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The book gathers together a variety of papers which represent the sweep of interests and practices of the media team at RMIT University. The staff are diverse researchers and media makers, engaged with a wide variety of media and mediums and interested in making connections between media practices.
This project, a book, began at a research retreat where, as a group of researchers, the Media team were responding to a research probe titled ‘Media Is…’. The retreat produced several artefacts as outcomes, including this research portal, and some of the papers appearing in this book were developed as part of the retreat.
The papers in this book pose questions such as 'how does representation impact on interpretation?'; 'What happens when creative practice is influenced by research?'; 'How doe we understand the intersection of media and culture?'; and ultimately, what is Media.
'Carlin's memoir and detective story has both a toughness and a deeply resonant eloquence, a precious and very rare combination. Reading it is both a punch in the gut and a tender caress. It is a pleasure to take my hat off to him.'
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Carlin, D, 2009, ‘Do You Mind If I Invent You; Ethical Questions in Writing Creative Non-fiction’, Text 13.1, April
This paper explores issues of ethics and the politics of representation as they have emerged in the writing of a work of creative non-fiction. The paper steps in and out of the work of non-fiction, somewhat in the spirit of ficto-criticism, to place the audience in a shifting position, alternately immersed in and distanced from the writing. read more »
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Carlin, D, 2004 ’Something To Do With The War’ – Trauma’s Afterlife’. Memory Haunting Discourse, Discourse Haunting Memory Conference, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden.
This paper presents fragments from a memoir, which can be seen as a story of the past haunting the present through the voices of a chain of traumas. It is an autobiographical tale circling the central figure of my father, who for me never existed. read more »
The Death Mook is a published magazine/book collection of creative writing on death. My short autobiographical piece was titled 'My Year of Blood.'
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Carlin, D. 2009 'Beyond Telling: in making stories of traumatic memory', PhD, Melbourne: University of Melbourne
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Carlin, D. 2008 ‘Skipping’, creative non-fiction, Overland 190, March
skipping is a short story that is a version of the beginning of a larger work of creative non-fiction to be published in 2010 by Scribe.
The short story starts like this:
I am here but I am not here. I am a baby, six months old, lying in a cot, helpless, arms waving, fingers gripping and ungripping, catching at the world so large and noisy around me. read more »
This ongoing project explores narratives and media-works constructed at the intersections between history, memory and fantasy. Various approaches and forms are deployed, both critical and creative, commencing with creative non-fiction prose.