Tiia Kelly is a critic and essayist living in Naarm. Her writing on film and culture can be found in Meanjin, The Guardian, Overland, The Big Issue, Kill Your Darlings, and elsewhere. She is a 2022 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow.
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Tiia Kelly
Distraction & it’s (Dis)contents
In an attention economy where textual engagement is constantly subject to the news cycle, the fragment, virality and the scroll, what is it to be distracted, and what makes it compelling?
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