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Culture Wars: We have a winner, folks!

By Kim on July 26, 2010

… and the prize for most tortuous attempt to diss “the elites” while invoking Aristophanes and Socrates goes to… David Burchell! Judges were impressed with his ability to entirely ignore the irony of indulging in a bit of elite bashing [...]

Posted in Culture, federal election 2010, History, Levity | Tagged aristophanies, Culture Wars, David Burchell, elites, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd | 33 Responses

The cultural politics and sociology of anti-science in Tony Abbott's Australia

By Mark Bahnisch on February 4, 2010

Overland editor Jeff Sparrow has a great piece in Crikey today, reflecting on the significance of Christopher Monckton’s tour of Australia. If you’re not signed up, I’d strongly urge you to take out a trial subscription to read the whole [...]

Posted in Activism, Climate change, Federal Elections, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Christopher Monckton, climate change denialism, climate change policy, Coalition, Crikey, Culture, Culture Wars, elites, emotion, Jeff Sparrow, knowledge, Liberal Party, Menzies, nature, overland, populism, rationality, Science, science studies, Sociology, Tony Abbott | 163 Responses

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