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The article presents three essays on topics that were discussed at the Novel and Media conference held at Harvard University's Mahindra Humanities center in May 2018. Topics discussed include role of novels as a narrative genre and various forms of digital media; resurgence of formalist analysis in literary criticism by thinking about the intersection of the novel form, novel theory, and media studies; and relation between the print medium in which the novel originated and the other media.

This is a paper about a possible philology. To help envisage it, I draw on three recent books which between them speak of two kinds of readerly love: love of the word, and love of literature; I examine the interplay between these two ways of loving written texts, together with the effects of subjectivity and coercion that they generate and the future they imagine for the love of the word. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the author talks about Australian scholar Meaghan Morris. He mentions her involvement in disciplinary struggles around French theory, feminism and cultural studies. He states that Morris was committed to developing cultural studies as a discipline. He further mentions Morris' favorite teachers including Ross Chambers and Anne Freadman.

In its early history the novel frequently deploys paratextual material to orient generic expectations, and in particular to navigate the often complex relation between the real and the fictional. Defoe's prefaces to the three instalments of the story of Robinson Crusoe map out an increasingly tortured attempt to puzzle out the world-forming quality of the novel and thus to construct a kind of proto-theory of novelistic form. Seeking both to claim the historical truth of the narrative and to deal with the consequences of the fact that that claim is untrue, these paratextual materials seek to reconcile novelistic invention with the revealed religious truth that stands above it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay on the relationship between identification, avatar, and pornography is presented. He argues that affective investment in fictional characters, often called identification, underestimates the complexity and specificity of modes of response among the character and the readers. He says that identification may have real emotional intensity. He mentions that the sense of a body is influenced by each of the forms that it takes.

The article focuses on the concept of settlement. It states that the idea of settlement was counterposed to the ideas of mobility of wandering free laborers. It mentions that it is difficult to define settlement in legal and social way simultaneously as populations never stay still at one place. It highlights that strangeness is opposite to settlement as stranger is taken as someone who disrupts settlement.

An essay is presented on the corrupt legal regime governing the national security of Australia. It offers several legislation related to anti-terrorism and discusses the negative effects of the bills. The author reflects on how they take sides if the democracy and the liberal values are possibly in conflict. The author adds that democracy presents a plurality of interest, while liberal values focuses on safeguarding the legal and political conditions for that representation.

The plot of the event of September 11 - the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center by terrorists - might have been written by Hollywood, or by Baudrillard. So fantasmatic, so familiar was the scenario that it fitted seamlessly into the manichaean agenda of the Pentagon hawks planning the next American war, and the next. Indeed, a perfectly plausible paranoid response reads this plot as a plot on the part of those who have most thoroughly benefited from it. How do we take fantasms seriously when they come true? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editors discuss various reports within the issue on topics including essays on the connection between noise and civilisation, an exhibition of grotesqueries in a small Tasmania museum, and the modes of identification in digital gaming and pornography.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the March 1, 2012 issue on topics including research on dance, cannibalism and erotic collections.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue including one by Hamish Morgan on the meditations in anthropology, one by Alison Ravenscroft on the engagement with the book "Carpenteria" and another one by Jane Simon on the meaning of critical proximity.

The author discusses the discomforts and pleasures of religion and of the television series "Mad Men." The author cites an order of madness and of masculinity as well as diverse relationships with secularity in the television series and in religion. The author also mentions the simple denial of the religious in forms of politics and viewing of television in the context of secularity and the relationship of cultural studies with contemporary culture like popular and quality television series.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the accountability generated by the managerial university, corporate culture of accountability and Hiroshima.

An introduction is presented in which the author discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the death scene, reality of unified objects, and the nomadic poetics in Australia.

The author reflects on rural cultural studies. He raises the issue of bias in doing cultural studies towards urban popular cultures and the methodologies that researchers used in doing fieldwork. He mentions that the researchers participated in a workshop which was supported by the Cultural Research Network (CRN) to strengthen research on cultural change in rural areas.

The author reflects on the collection of essays representing Critical Indigenous Theory edited by Professor Aileen Moreton Robinson. The author mentions the areas covering by the collection, which includes literature, philosophy, politics, health studies, and contemporary culture. Moreover, the author also mentions two general essays by Maria Angel and Nikos Papastergiadis, which marked by acute political engagement with the emerging politics while continuing the cultural studies.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Jon Stratton on the naturalisation of violence and neoliberalism in Australia, one by Virginia Watson on the crisis analysis in Australian indigenous affairs, and one by Catherine Robinson on homelessness.

The authors reflect on the connection between cultural studies and history. They argue that cultural studies challenges what the past is and how it might be described from a wide range of ideas and modes of representation. They emphasize that history is no longer only found in archives but in the very making of alternate archives.

The article discusses various essays published within the issue, including one by Martin Thomas on films of Indigenous ceremonies and another by Juan Obarrio on the culture of mystery and shamanism.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Bruno Latour on the challenge for a recall of modernity and another by Graham Harman on the expansive alternative to postmodernity.

The authors examine their objectives to continue to provide informative publications and various works concerning cultural studies that intervenes with culturally configured social problems. Among the specific objectives of the authors include the continuation in supporting innovative scholarly work, engaging contributions to broaden cultural debates on contemporary cultures as well as in seeking articles, reviews and translations published in other countries.

The author offers his thoughts on the concept of panic. He states that panic is a sudden feeling of alarm or fear of ample uncontrollableness as to lead to extravagant unthinking behavior. He also states that for cultural studies, this concept has most powerfully been expressed in the contention of moral panic, which was first articulated in "Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of Mods and Rockers," by Stanley Cohen.