Articles by: Mark Gibson

Author Biography:

Mark Gibson works in Media at RMIT University. He is author of Culture and Power—A History of Cultural Studies.

The fringe still bangs: A reply to Justin O’Connor

Oct 2025

Fringe culture lives on, but in a changed form, demanding both critical and descriptive accounts; a reply to Justin O’Connor.

The Moralism of Immoralism: On the Cultural Logic of ‘Sky After Dark’

Arena Online

Mark Gibson

2 Jun 2022

The whole formation is woven through with odd, repurposed fragments of Marxist class analysis and theories of ideology.

Downsizing the competition: What higher-education managers might learn from the AFLW

Arena Online

Mark Gibson

27 Aug 2020

…both [sport and universities] have seen a massive growth of competitive performance development… The growth of these fields has been associated in both cases with a ballooning management stratum.