Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?
Wendy Price

IS IT O.K. TO BE A LUDDITE? asked Thomas Pynchon in 1984. Is it O.K. to deny the [online] machine? To some, the internet is nothing but a series of metaphors: the net; the web; the cloud. "It's there forever" is the warning-come-catchcry of a creative class committed to the great, indifferent pullulation that turns new to old with little or no savour; it's Peter Schmidt's "roomfull of shouting people."

To be heard, the answer is loud and clear. The writing is on the facebook wall.

We must whisper.

Avoid the fate of Dennis Cooper and Google's "loss" of his five-year novel (google it). Don't disappear like all the myspace-only singles you posted.

Smash the mainframe like a knitting frame.

The New Hesperian is a print-only magazine focused on Perth arts and music.

The NEW HESPERIAN is proudly provincial.

The NEW HESPERIAN is the Big Fat.

The NEW HESPERIAN will boldly do what's been done before...

...to be touched by the last of the sun.