288 pages, 12.5 x 19 cm, perfect bind, softcover
Perimeter Editions 096
ISBN: 978-1-922545-40-4
AU $42
CONSENT, A Reader
Annika Aitken & Kyla McFarlane (eds.)
What does consent look like, today? This was the guiding question behind the Potter Museum of Art’s Interdisciplinary Forum, CONSENT. Over the last decade, we have seen a seismic shift in society’s understanding of consent across interpersonal, institutional, colonial, and environmental contexts – let alone that of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which this project was initially conceived. The conversation continues to be urgent and contested. Questions of agency, respect, recognition, sovereignty, visibility, and empathy remain at its core.Edited by Annika Aitken and Kyla McFarlane, this reader draws on the voices of colleagues from the University of Melbourne – leading minds in criminology, creative writing, marketing, law, digital ethics and computing, science and technology, health, and design – alongside a broader collection of creative contributions. Like the forum that preceded it, CONSENT, A Reader – the first in a series of collaborative publications from the Potter Museum of Art and Perimeter Editions – is not the final word on the subject. Rather, it is a polyphonic compendium, and a space for reflection and changing perspectives.
CONSENT, A Reader includes contributions from Michal J. Carrington and Julie L. Ozanne, Simona Castricum, Simon Coghlan, Barbara Creed, Tyne Daile Sumner, Debris Facility Pty Ltd, Bianca Fileborn, Beth Gaze, Ann Genovese and Crystal McKinnon, Luke George, A. Frances Johnson, Jacqueline Peel, Megan Prictor, r e a, Vanessa Russ, and Tatiana Zecher.
Perimeter Editions 096
First Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-1-922545-40-4
Publication date: May 2026
Printed by Printed by Tallin Book Printers, Estonia
Published by Perimeter Editions and the Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne,
Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
Editors: Annika Aitken, Kyla McFarlane
Design: Paul Mylecharane and Kim Mumm Hansen for Common Room
Contributing Editors: Dan Rule, Pippa Milne
Copyediting and proofreading: Justine Ellis, Ash Holmes
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