1. "Interpretive possibilities": Aboriginal men and clothing Tim Rowse 2. Talking Yiddish at the boundaries Maria Damon 3. The shaping of things to come: Expo '88 Tony Bennett 4. Michel de Certeau and the practice of representation John Frow 5. Fashioning the future McKenzie Wark 6. "That misery of Stringer's cliches": sports writing David Rowe 7. Rhythms of consumption Mary Yelanjian 8. The unlikely return of Merman in Madonna's Cherish Philip Hayward