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The lifestyle of Yowies
The lifestyle of the Yowie presents a potential remedy to our malady, in the current age of ‘grustle’ culture. Byung-Chul Han’s The Burnout Society argues that our society has moved from Foucault’s notion of a ‘discipline-based society’ into an ‘achievement-based society’ and investigates its implications upon the modern-individual. The modern society is a cult of…
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For love and lemons: How-to befriend a yowie
A collaborative epic by Squid, mg, ggj, and the Yowies of Bluegum Forest Intro With pockets full of jerkyKnees not yet feeling hurtyWe set out from the heathInto the bluegum forest beneathFor waratahs and yellow budsOur human hearts did yearnWhile the yowie foot did echo In the palms and fronds and fernsA ruben in the bellyBefore…
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An Anthropological Response: Yowie’s and how they write. A Short handed Love Story
Recently a story published on this website gave an overview of the writing behaviour of the Yowie (Latin: Yowithis Yowithat) by volunteer contributor and academic known as FernyDog. While this seminal work adequately gives example of the writing process of Yowies, I have been asked to provide a brief overview on how this behaviour is more…
