"This book addresses very topical issues being raised in the public agenda and the media - relating directly to our government and its obsession with security and border control and the more global effect of capitalism and the social consequences of this trend."Preface: Camera obscura, or the unbearable lopsidedness of being -- Ch. 1. Transcendental capitalism and the roots of paranoid nationalism -- Ch. 2.On worrying: the lost art of the well-administered national cuddle -- Ch. 3. Border dis/order: the imaginary of paranoid nationalism -- Ch. 4. A brief history of White colonial paranoia -- Ch. 5. The rise of Australian fundamentalism: reflections on the rule of Ayatollah Johnny -- Ch. 6. Polluting memories: migration and colonial responsibility in Australia -- Ch. 7. The class aesthetics of global multiculturalism -- Ch. 8. Exighophobia/homoiophobia: 'Comes a time we are all enthusiasm' -- Ch. 9. A concluding fable: the gift of care, or the ethics of pedestrian crossing
