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By Mark Bahnisch on November 18, 2009
I referred in an earlier post to Paul Kelly’s style of commentary – a mix of oracular pronouncement and portentous ponderings about the primacy of narrative. I actually read his March of Patriots a while back, and planned to review [...]
Posted in Australiana, History, Howardia, Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Book review, Guy Rundle, History, Insiders, John Howard, march of history, narrative, Nationalism, Paul Keating, Paul Kelly, political history, reform, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 11, 2009
In a second piece of good news to come from the Federal government today, the Productivity Commission’s mooted changes to the import regime for books have not been accepted. The argument about consumer benefit was always spurious – the purported [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Markets | Tagged australian literature, Australian writers, book retailers, Books, Writers & Writing, consumers, craig emerson, cultural policy, cultural production, free trade agreement, Guy Rundle, ideology, Kim Carr, libraries, literary production, market concentration, neo-liberalism, parallel importation, productivity commission, publishing, writers, Writers & Writing, writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 4, 2009
The French anthropologist, Claude Levi-Strauss, has died, aged 100. Levi-Strauss was one of the towering intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century. At Crikey, Guy Rundle provides an appreciation, and contextualises Levi-Strauss’ thought and influence for our times.
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Sociology | Tagged anthropology, Claude Levi-Strauss, Crikey, cultural anthropology, death, Guy Rundle, Levi-Strauss, obituary, structuralism |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 28, 2009
Lateline last night featured the best and worst of public debate. On one hand, Melbourne lawyer and refugee advocate Jessie Taylor was interviewed about her own footage of the conditions under which asylum seekers in Indonesia are attained. In a [...]
Posted in Howardia, Immigration, Media, Sociology | Tagged andrew bartlett, asylum seekers, commentariat, detention, Guy Rundle, humanitarianism, Immigration, immigration detention, indonesia, Jessie Taylor, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Lateline, Media, Philip Ruddock, political culture, refugrees, Rudd government, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 26, 2009
The Greens are running Clive Hamilton in Higgins. As Andrew Norton observes, Hamilton criticising seems to be a politically ecumenical practice in the blogosphere. Guy Rundle puts a contrary view. I’m by no means enamoured of some of the ideas [...]
Posted in By-elections | Tagged Andrew Norton, Australian Greens, by-election, candidates, Climate change, climate change policy, Clive Hamilton, Guy Beres, Guy Rundle, Higgins, Higgins by-election, Liberal Party, Peter Costello, The Greens |
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 Mark Bahnisch on September 28, 2009
As a sequel to my post on The Australian‘s series on the left, where I highlighted Guy Rundle’s take, I’m reproducing from today’s Crikey (with permission) his longer sequel to his take beneath the fold. Meantime, the Oz series meanders [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, History, International, Media, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, BLF, Capitalism, CPA, Crikey, Culture, David Hetherington, GFC, global economy, global financial crisis, globalisation, globalism, greens, Guy Rundle, History, ideology, Labor, Labor Left, labour movement, Labour parties, left, liberalism, Maoism, Marx, McKenzie Wark, Meidner plan, neo-liberalism, neocons, neoconservatism, new left, Per Capita, political culture, robert manne, social democracy, social markets, social movements, Sociology, Soviet union, Sraffa, sweden, The Australian, the left, Tony Blair, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 25, 2009
On Saturday, I penned some thoughts on the series in The Australian on the Australian left, riffing off the first article by Tim Soutphommasane. Among other things, I queried the practice of addressing a discourse about left politics to the [...]
Posted in Australiana, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, Australian culture, classical liberalism, Crikey, Guy Rundle, History, ideology, Julia Gillard, labor party, labourism, political sociology, political theory, Politics, social democracy, Sociology, The Australian, Tim Soutphommasane, What's Left |
By Robert Merkel on September 18, 2009
We haven’t had a defence-related thread for a while, so it’s worth rounding up some of the more interesting stories. Brendan Nelson, in his extended “I was right about everything” valedictory speech, included the much-debated Super Hornet purchase in the [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Foreign policy, War | Tagged army, Australian Army, brendan nelson, dsto, Greg Combet, Greg Sheridan, Guy Rundle, jassm, Super Hornet |
By Ben Eltham on September 13, 2009
In Fairfax’s relaunched National Times, Guy Rundle has a perceptive but inconsistent piece on the unsustainability of parallel importation restrictions (often abbreviated to PIR) for Australian books: Though the chief opponents of PIR have been the large book chains and their [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Economics | Tagged cultural policy, future of the book, Guy Rundle, parallel import restrictions, Productivity Comission, publishing |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 20, 2009
In today’s Crikey, Guy Rundle segues from the latest round of “Nats should leave the Coalition” talk (refracted, this time, if The Australian is to be believed, predictably through the Malcolm Turnbull leadership prism) to a consideration of the impact of environmental crisis on rural voters.
Posted in Activism, Australiana, Culture, Environment, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Australian culture, Australian Greens, Coalition, Culture, greens, Guy Rundle, historical sociology, ideology, left, Nationals, political culture, Queensland Greens, right, rural, rural sociology, Sociology, urban |
Asylum seekers and Indonesia
By Mark Bahnisch on October 28, 2009
Lateline last night featured the best and worst of public debate. On one hand, Melbourne lawyer and refugee advocate Jessie Taylor was interviewed about her own footage of the conditions under which asylum seekers in Indonesia are attained. In a [...]
Posted in Howardia, Immigration, Media, Sociology | Tagged andrew bartlett, asylum seekers, commentariat, detention, Guy Rundle, humanitarianism, Immigration, immigration detention, indonesia, Jessie Taylor, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Lateline, Media, Philip Ruddock, political culture, refugrees, Rudd government, Tony Abbott | 86 Responses