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By Mark Bahnisch on August 8, 2011
I intend to write on Erik Olin Wright’s important book Envisioning Real Utopias, but I thought it might be useful to make it a five part series, rather than the world’s longest blog post. I’d also like to have a [...]
Posted in Featured, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Charles Fourier, Enlightenment, envisioning realistic utopias, erik olin wright, Hayek, imaginary, John Locke, Marx, Marxism, neo-liberalism, philosophy, political philosophy, political theory, Popper, social change, social democracy, Sociology, Thomas Hobbes, utopia, utopian socialism |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 24, 2010
The other day, I mentioned Clive Hamilton’s series of posts on climate change denialism at The Drum. In today’s edition, Hamilton comments: Indeed, those who study the climate itself rather than the bogus debate in the newspapers and the blogosphere [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Disasters, Ethics, Language, Media, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Bayesian probability, cartesian rationality, Climate change, climate change denialists, Clive Hamilton, Descartes, discourse, Enlightenment, EU, European Union, IPCC, IPCC 4th Report, Max Weber, Media, methodology, regimes of truth, Science, science as a vocation, science communication, science studies, scientific method, skepticism, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science, truth, truth statements |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 9, 2009
Steven Shaviro, who blogs at The Pinocchio Theory, has written an excellent piece on the Global Financial Crisis. Shaviro captures how capitalism is lived – and how it produces a demeanour of fatalism. He emphasises the way in which the [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Culture, International, Life, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Capitalism, discipline., Economics, Enlightenment, free markets, global financial crisis, governance, governmentality, Hayek, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Markets, Marxism, neo-liberalism, Pinocchio Theory, political economy, political ideologies, rationality, Ronald Reagan, Sociology, Steven Shapiro |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 2, 2009
Gary Sauer-Thompson has trained an observant eye on an editorial in the Fin: Yes, the road ahead looks difficult. But this is no time to abandon our faith in the capacity for enterprises and markets free of oppressive state intervention [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sociology | Tagged economic liberalism, Economics, efficient markets hypothesis, Enlightenment, Enlightenment thought, epistemology, faith, global financial crisis, ideologies, John Quiggin, liberalism, mixed economy, neoliberalism, Religion, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science |
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