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By Mark Bahnisch on July 18, 2011
What interests me in this post is the cultural politics of Hairspray. One of its marketing themes is 60s nostalgia. That nostalgia is by necessity a collective re-imagining of what the 60s ‘meant’, whether or not we were around to form our own judgements.
Posted in Activism, Art, Culture, Featured, History, Music, Race, Relationships, Sydney, Urbanism | Tagged 60s, Australia, cultural politics, dance, difference, equality, Hairspray, intersectionality, liberalism, multiculturalism, nostalgia, revolution, social change, societalisation, Theodor Adorno |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 8, 2009
I’ve had a stab, in a guest post over at Overland, at looking at how the tendencies we’ve always had to succumbing to magical thinking make climate change a very difficult challenge for politics – particularly when we need to [...]
Posted in Climate change, Culture, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Bruno Latour, Climate change, climate change policy, cultural politics, Culture, epistemology, knowledge, Mark Bahnisch, nature, overland, political theory, Science, science studies, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 11, 2009
Years ago, I used to read Quadrant – incidentally before Robert Manne became editor, if I recall correctly. Back in the day, there was a sense that there was some sort of contest of ideas, and thus there was some [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Howardia, Media, Politics | Tagged blogosphere, conservativism, cultural politics, Culture Wars, History wars, hoax, Indigenous history, John Howard, John Quiggin, Katherine Wilson, keith windschuttle, left, little magazines, Pavlov's Cat, Quadrant, right, robert manne, sharon gould, wingnuts, writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 3, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/richard-nixon.jpg" In a previous post on expectations of whether an Obama win will reshape politics and end the culture wars, I briefly discussed Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland, which I read recently. The title, incidentally, comes from a passage in a [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Culture, Foreign Elections, History, Howardia, USA | Tagged Adlai Stevenson, American history, American Political Science Association, barack obama, Crooked Timber, cultural politics, Culture Wars, David Greenberg, GOP, Henry Farrell, John Howard, John Kenneth Galbraith, Kevin Rudd, Maxine McKew, Nixon's Shadow, nixonland, political science, rick perlstein, Sociology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
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