By tigtog on January 31, 2011
There’s been some discussion of the demonstrations, civil resistance and deaths on the latest open thread. I don’t know enough about what’s happening to provide insightful commentary, but here’s a thread for discussion.
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, International | Tagged democracy, Egypt, roundtable, social justice |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 6, 2010
A couple of snippets from today’s papers: MINING giant Rio Tinto has shelved plans to spend $11 billion expanding its massive iron ore operations in Western Australia because of the wave of uncertainty sparked by the Rudd government’s proposed tax [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Policy, Politics | Tagged capital, capital strike, Capitalism, democracy, Federal Election 2010, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Miners, Paul Keating, resources, resources rent, Robert Gottliebsen, rspt, Rudd government, super profits |
By Kim on April 22, 2010
The British media and conservative establishment is throwing the kitchen sink at the Liberal Democrats, in an attempt to contain their surge in support [previous discussion on LP here]. The Daily Mail has gone feral, the Murdoch tabloids have gone [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Markets, Polls | Tagged capital, Conservative Party, debates, democracy, election debates, hung parliament, IMF, Kenneth Clarke, Labour, leaders debates, Liberal Democrats, Markets, Nick Clegg, Polls, Tories, UK election 2010 |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 29, 2009
As a conclusion to his series provoked by The Australian‘s “What’s Left” op/ed fest, Guy Rundle has proposed a positive vision of the future from the left. [For my previous LP posts on this theme, see here.] I’ll post the [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, Ethics, International, Markets, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Capitalism, democracy, end of history, futures, global financial crisis, globalisation, Guy Rundle, ideology, justice, left, Markets, Marxism, neo-liberalism, phenomenology, political culture, political imaginary, political philosophy, political theory, post-capitalism, sensibility, social democracy, social imaginary, socialism, Sociology, The Australian, Third Way, utopia, value, values, What's Left, Zizek |
By Brian on May 21, 2009
Via Counterpoint last week I heard about the new book by Paul Collier entitled Wars, guns and votes. Collier, an African specialist, is concerned about solutions rather than simply investigating problems. Discussing his ideas about solutions really requires reading the [...]
Posted in Climate change, Developing world, Environment, Politics | Tagged Authoritarianism, democracy, economic development, paul collier, power |
By Kim on May 5, 2009
Lots could be said about the politics of the CPRS backdown, and no doubt lots of people are saying lots. Good for The Greens? An issue for a double dissolution? Issue management a la KRudd? Greg Combet positioning himself as [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Markets, Policy | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, business, Climate change, corporatism, cprs, democracy, Emissions trading scheme, ets, Greg Combet, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Penny Wong, political theory, Rudd government, Sociology, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 25, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/540_whats-on_ideas-festival-feature_ban-300×61.jpg" align=left Just a quick heads up to some sessions at the Brisbane Ideas Festival later this week which might be of interest. I’m speaking on a panel called “The Future of the Magazine”. It’s part of the “Think [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Brisbane, Culture, Life, Media, Notices, Policy, Sociology, Technology, The Web | Tagged Activism, Barry Saunders, Brisbane, Brisbane Ideas Festival, creativity, Culture, democracy, Ideas Festival, Marcus Westbury, Mark Bahnisch, Media, Miriam Lyons, panel, QAG, Queensland Art Gallery, session, SLQ, Sociology, State Library of Queensland, Think Do Tank, think tanks, Urbanism |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 1, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/746381286_2c6c08ecaa.jpg" Image of the State Library of Victoria from avlxyz at flickr reproduced under a creative commons licence. One thing I used to notice when I used to buy newspapers was that around this time of year “culture” steps [...]
Posted in Activism, Australiana, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Government, Media, Policy, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Activism, Australian culture, Barry Saunders, citizen journalism, cultural sociology, cultural studies, democracy, e democracy, internet, journalism, margaret simons, media studies, New Matilda, new media, newspapers, openness, Pew Centre, political sociology, public participation, public sphere, sally young, social media, Sociology, State of the Cultural Nation |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 9, 2008
There’s some fascinating stuff written on the Mumbai attacks by scholars of religion and global politics at The Immanent Frame – much better analysis from a blog with a specialist interest but also the ability to contextualise broadly than I’ve [...]
Posted in International, Politics, Religion, Sociology, Terrorism | Tagged Blogging, democracy, global politics, Hindutva, India, Islam, Media, Mumbai, Mumbai attacks, secularism, Sociology, study of religion, terror, Terrorism, The Immanent Frame |
By dk.au on September 18, 2008
Only three weeks after the official close of submissions (many businesses asked for an extension) it looks like we might see a White Paper as soon as the 3rd of October. This suggests the government has a clear idea of [...]
Posted in Climate change, Environment, Federal Elections, Markets, Politics | Tagged carbon pollution reduction scheme, democracy, emissions trading, emissions trajectories targets, Garnaut, Green Paper, white paper |
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