Andrew T Hickey is Professor of Communications in the School of Humanities and Communication, University of Southern Queensland.

• Section 1 The Condition of Comfort 1. Comfort, where? The Dimensions of Comfort 2. Situating the Argument 3. The Narrative Construction of Comfort 4. But Again; Comfort? Some Final, Initial, Notes Section 2 Permutations of Comfort: A Pragmatic Consideration of Comfort’s Surfacings 5. Upon Booking the Flight: The Physiographies of Comfort 6. A Trip to the Shops: Comfort’s Ethical Recognition 7. A Visit to the Oncology Ward: Comfort as an Observable State of Being 8. In the Living Room: The Securitization of Comfort Section 3 Permeations of Comfort: A Further Consideration of Comfort’s effects 9. Comfort’s Individualisation: The Cruel Optimism of Comfort 10. Afflict the Comfortable, Comfort the Afflicted: Comfort and the Reformation of the ‘Good Life’

Andrew T Hickey is Professor of Communications in the School of Humanities and Communication, University of Southern Queensland.

• Section 1 The Condition of Comfort 1. Comfort, where? The Dimensions of Comfort 2. Situating the Argument 3. The Narrative Construction of Comfort 4. But Again; Comfort? Some Final, Initial, Notes Section 2 Permutations of Comfort: A Pragmatic Consideration of Comfort’s Surfacings 5. Upon Booking the Flight: The Physiographies of Comfort 6. A Trip to the Shops: Comfort’s Ethical Recognition 7. A Visit to the Oncology Ward: Comfort as an Observable State of Being 8. In the Living Room: The Securitization of Comfort Section 3 Permeations of Comfort: A Further Consideration of Comfort’s effects 9. Comfort’s Individualisation: The Cruel Optimism of Comfort 10. Afflict the Comfortable, Comfort the Afflicted: Comfort and the Reformation of the ‘Good Life’

Andrew T Hickey is Professor of Communications in the School of Humanities and Communication, University of Southern Queensland.

• Section 1 The Condition of Comfort 1. Comfort, where? The Dimensions of Comfort 2. Situating the Argument 3. The Narrative Construction of Comfort 4. But Again; Comfort? Some Final, Initial, Notes Section 2 Permutations of Comfort: A Pragmatic Consideration of Comfort’s Surfacings 5. Upon Booking the Flight: The Physiographies of Comfort 6. A Trip to the Shops: Comfort’s Ethical Recognition 7. A Visit to the Oncology Ward: Comfort as an Observable State of Being 8. In the Living Room: The Securitization of Comfort Section 3 Permeations of Comfort: A Further Consideration of Comfort’s effects 9. Comfort’s Individualisation: The Cruel Optimism of Comfort 10. Afflict the Comfortable, Comfort the Afflicted: Comfort and the Reformation of the ‘Good Life’