These are some of the reviews that have appeared over the years in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, The Daily Telegraph, The Australian Magazine, The Australian Review of Books, and The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, among other places. I do not include here academic reviews.

 

 

TURING´S DELIRIUM

 

The Australian, Review

August, 2006

DESCARTES: THE LIFE OF RENÉ DESCARTES AND ITS PLACE IN HIS TIMES

 

A. C. Grayling

The Australian, Review January 14-15, 2006

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Roberto Calasso

THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION (2001)

 

A film by Jonathan Weiss, based on the novel by J. G. Ballard

Ballardian www.ballardian.com

THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR

 

Ray Kurzweil

The Australian, Review

December 17-18, 2005

AGAINST THE WORLD, AGAINST LIFE

 

Michel Houellebecq

The Australian, Review

December 2, 2006

I AM ALIVE AND YOU ARE DEAD: A JOURNEY INTO THE MIND OF PHILIP K. DICK

 

Emmanuel Carrère

The Australian, Review

October 22-23, 2005

PARIS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

 

Jules Verne

Sydney Morning Herald

1st April, 1998

MASTERS OF ILLUSION: THE WORLD BANK AND THE POVERTY OF NATIONS

 

Catherine Caufield

Australian Financial Review

June 27-28,1998

LEARNING TO LOVE SURVEILLANCE

 

Cosmos Magazine

August 2005

MICRONATIONS

John Ryan, George Dunford & Simon Sellars

 

The Australian, Review

September 23, 2006

DUE PREPARATIONS FOR THE PLAGUE

 

Janette Turner Hospital

WHY I LOVE-HATE CSI

 

 

THE PRESTIGE

 

Christopher Priest

Sydney Morning Herald

December 2004

Some other bits...

 

 

* BITE-SIZE CLASSICS (The Australian Magazine: 'Culture Vulture')
David Malouf: An Imaginary Life
Mudrooroo: Wild Cat Falling
Peter Carey: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Charles Bukowski: Post-Office
William Burroughs: Naked Lunch
Jack Kerouac: On The Road
Marguerite Duras: The Lover
David Lynch: Eraserhead

* MUSIC REVIEWS (Daily Telegraph and The Australian Magazine)
Mr Bungle: California
Birthday Party: Prayers on Fire
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the Pricks
Butthole Surfers: Locust the Abortion Technician
Kim Salmon and the Business: Record
Garth Brooks: Chris Gaines' Greatest Hits
Stone Temple Pilots: No. 4
Lobsterman: Get with Lobsterman

* Articles for Independent Film-makers (IF Magazine)
The Wog Boy (2000)

I, Robot (2004)

 

AWAKENING THE ENTROPY WITHIN: THE NOVELS OF J.G. BALLARD
(1999, Unpublished - Written for Series 2 of Babel Handbooks, which was discontinued. Covers Ballard's work up until Cocaine Nights)

 

 

* FOOTPRINTS ON WATER

Play by Matt Cameron - Stables Theatre, November 1999 Sydney City Hub, November 1999

* HOW WE BECAME POSTHUMAN

N. Katharine Hayles, Abaddon 2 1999

* WAITING FOR THE BECKETT POLICE

Sagacity?, 1994. All-Female Version of Beckett's Waiting for Godot, by The Darlinghurst Theatre Company

* THE SILENT

Jack Dann Sydney Morning Herald, June 12, 1999

* THE STRAIGHT STORY

Directed by David Lynch Tribe Online, 2000

* THE ART OF DREAMING: THE NOVELS OF JACK DANN Abaddon 2, 1999

* IN A FISHBONE CHURCH

Catherine Chidgey The Australian Review of Books

November 1998

* NEW PHILOSOPHY FOR NEW MEDIA

Mark Hansen Metapsychology Online, September 2004

* LISTENING TO THE MIND LISTENING: A Concert of Brain Music

Sleepy Brain Online, 2004