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By Mark Bahnisch on April 8, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/doomsday460.jpg" align=left Part of the whole “death of the newspaper” narrative arc (though not the current focus on Google as a supposedly evil aggregator, driven by the commercial interests of news corporations) is the purported death of the critic. [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Consumerism, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged action movies, audiences, canon, cinema, content creation, creative industries, cultural economics, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, culture industries, David and Margaret, Doomsday, dvd, Fenella Kernebone, Film, film criticism, IMDB, internet, John Howkins, marketing, Media, movies, new media, newspapers, post-apocalyptic, print, review, reviewers, reviews, rhona mitra, science fiction, Sociology, user generated content, user reviews, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 5, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jefferson_thumbo87o8686.jpg" align=left Karl Marx’ concept of ‘fictitious capital’ has enjoyed something of a revival recently – in the context of explaining the Global Financial Crisis. It’s interesting to observe [h/t Richard Metzger at Boing Boing] that Marx doesn’t appear [...]
Posted in Culture, Developing world, Economics, Immigration, Industrial Relations, International, Markets, Poverty, Security, Sociology | Tagged Capitalism, CCi, creative economy, creative industries, economic sociology, economy, Fernand Braudel, fictitious capital, finance capital, financialisation, Giovanni Arrighi, global financial crisis, globalisation, Immigration, insecurity, intellectual property, Karl Marx, knowledge economy, labour mobility, neo-liberalism, networks, Paul Keating, QUT, regulation school, Robert Metzger, Robert Reich, services, services economy, social inequality, Sociology, sub prime mortgages, symbolic analysts, Thomas Jefferson, work, world systems theory |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 16, 2009
Judging by some conversations I was having this morning, and some buzz on FB over the weekend, a lot of folk are starting to focus on the reality of what Queensland will be if the LNP wins government. No doubt [...]
Posted in Australiana, Brisbane, Culture, Economics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections, Urbanism | Tagged Brisbane, creative industries, Culture, federalism, identity, Jason Wilson, knowledge workers, New Matilda, North Queensland, Politics, Queensland, Queensland election 2009, Sociology |
By Guest Poster on February 2, 2009
Cross-posted from Marcus’ blog. From my small air conditioned bubble in a sweltering Melbourne the abstract economic gloom of stock shocks and far away corporate collapses is getting less and less abstract with each passing day. Anecdotal reports of jobs [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Melbourne, Sociology | Tagged arts, Australian culture, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, DIY, economic cycle, innovation, laneways, Marcus Westbury, Melbourne, Newcastle, recession, unemployment |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 25, 2009
As a bit of a sequel to Helen’s post on Radio National’s travails, I wanted to draw attention to the public consultation initiated by DBCDE on the government’s inquiry into the future of the ABC and SBS. For those who [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged abc, ARC, Axel bruns, broadcasting, citizen journalism, citizenship, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, DBCDE, future of abc, future of sbs, innovation, internet, Jason Wilson, media policy, public broadcasting, QUT, research, review, SBS, social innovation, social media, Sociology, stephen conroy, Stuart Cunningham, Terry Flew, universality, user generated content, web, YouDecide2007 |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 7, 2009
I wrote in an earlier post about the “summer of culture” feature at New Matilda. Ben Eltham has now wrapped up “the state of the cultural nation” with a thoughtful essay integrating the various pieces with some broader thoughts on [...]
Posted in Culture, Policy | Tagged 2020 summit, arts funding, Australia Council, Ben Eltham, Creative Australia, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, innovation, New Matilda, Peter Garrett, Rudd govermnent |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 17, 2008
It’s a bit of a hard ask to keep up with all the policy reviews the Rudd government has initiated. And they appear to be in the habit of releasing the results or closing deadlines for submissions well into the [...]
Posted in Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Policy | Tagged abc, creative industries, digital futures, inquiry, public broadcasting, QUT, review, Rudd government, SBS, stephen conroy, submissions, Terry Flew, user generated content |
By Guest Poster on December 9, 2008
[Cross-posted at GreensBlog] So what just happened with the National Academy of Music? Tim Hollo – Advisor to Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne Yesterday, after a whirlwind six week campaign, Melbourne Uni and the National Academy of Music put out [...]
Posted in Music, Policy | Tagged AIMP, ANAM, arts policy, Australian Greens, Australian Institute of Music Performance, Australian National Academy of Music, Brett Dean, Christine Milne, classical music, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, defunding, Education, Glyn Davis, Melbourne University, Michael Danby, Music, Peter Garrett, Terry Moran, The Greens, training |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 27, 2008
There’s been a bit of discussion about Arts Minister Peter Garrett’s defunding of the Australian National Academy of Music on another thread, so I think it probably warrants a post of its own. Long time observers of arts and cultural [...]
Posted in Culture, Education, Government, Music, Policy | Tagged 2020 summit, AIMP, ANAM, arts policy, Australian Institute of Music Performance, Australian National Academy of Music, classical music, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, defunding, Education, Glyn Davis, Melbourne University, Michael Danby, Music, Peter Garrett, training |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 20, 2008
I’m no climatologist, but it’s been a very long time since I’ve seen storms with as much force as we’ve now experienced in Brisbane and South East Queensland three times in four days, most recently about an hour ago, and [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Climate change, Disasters, Government, Life, Photography, Sociology | Tagged 1974 floods, Anna Bligh, bom, Bremer River, Brisbane, bus station, Campbell Newman, climatology, creative commons, creative industries, dangerous winds, extreme weather, flickr, hail, images, infrastructure, inner city bypass, Ipswich, King George Square, meteorology, natural disaster, New Farm, Paddington, Photography, photos, public transport, QUT, radar, Sociology, South East Queensland, storms, subtropical climate, The Gap, TransApex, TransLink, Transport, tunnels, weather |
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