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Dan Dixon

Dan Dixon is completing a PhD in English at the University of Sydney. He writes regularly for Overland’s online magazine, and has also been published in Meanjin and The Lifted Brow.

March 2024

  • Books

    Going through my father’s hoard now after his death, all I want is him

    Dan Dixon
    He would have had to out-age Methuselah to read all the books he accumulated

May 2021

  • R+J RMX, a ‘remixed’ version of Romeo and Juliet, at the Sydney Opera House in May 2021

    Romeo and Juliet remixed: how technology can change storytelling

    With the touch of a button, a Sydney Opera House audience rewrites Shakespeare as it is performed in front of them

January 2021

  • A GameStop store in Hollywood

    Anarchy, in-jokes and trolling: the GameStop fiasco is 4chan-think in action

    Dan Dixon
    The redditors’ logic is one I recognise from my teens: intentionally senseless, a joke rather than a philosophy. And nobody wants a joke explained

July 2017

  • Gamblers play poker machines, known as pokies, in Brisbane, Thursday, March 22, 2012. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

    Playing the pokies: life, whether terrible or beautiful, deferred in the gaming room

    Even when crowded and noisy, gaming areas in Australia’s clubs – where around $11bn a year is gambled and lost to poker machines – are lonely places
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