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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 August 20, 2010
Early this month, I contested the idea that this campaign was a boring race. It didn’t take long for that notion to be junked. But the perception that there’s no salient difference between the two parties has had a stronger [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Philosophy | Tagged Ben Eltham, campaign strategy, choice, Culture Wars, Deakinite liberalism, Federal Election 2010, ideology, John Howard, Julia Gillard, liberalism, libertarians, social democracy, social neoliberalism, statism, The Greens, Tony Abbott, welfare state |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 25, 2010
The departure of Nick Minchin from the frontbench has been accompanied by speculation that Tony Abbott should move Barnaby Joyce from Finance to Energy and Resources, the portfolio Minchin had occupied. Joyce is said to have expertise in this area, [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Christopher Pearson, economic management, economic policy, finance, Henry Tax review, ideology, liberalism, National Broadband Network, Nick Minchin, resources rent, schools, social democracy, statism, stimulus, tax, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 16, 2010
It must be ‘write an op/ed for Fairfax about something a political leader said to me’ week. First, Nina Funnell, and now Michael Perusco: I was in Canberra last week and had the opportunity to ask Opposition Leader Tony Abbott [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged communitarianism, community, fairfax, George Brandis, homelessness, housing policy, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, liberalism, Malcolm Turnbull, mark latham, Michael Perusco, neo-liberalism, Nina Funnell, political philosophy, political theory, Sacred Heart Mission, social housing, social inclusion, Sociology, Third Way, Tony Abbott, Tony Blair |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 30, 2009
I mentioned in my previous post that a lot of speculation has now turned to Malcolm Turnbull’s intentions should he lose the leadership tomorrow. I also linked to the thoughts of Christopher Joye of Business Spectator. This paragraph is particularly [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged ALP, Christopher Joyce, Crikey, economic liberalism, ideology, Labor, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal Party, Liberal split, liberalism, Malcolm Turnbull, new party, political sociology, republicanism, Rudd government, social liberalism, split |
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 18, 2009
Parliament goes into recess next week, after a sitting whose most prominent contribution to political discussion was the unruliness of question time (aside, of course, from the usual shenanigans of opposition disunity, which are now customary). Writing in Crikey yesterday, [...]
Posted in Media, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged Athenian democracy, Bagehot, bernard keane, classical philosophy, eidos, forms, Gough Whitlam, jim cope, keating government, Kevin Rudd, liberalism, opposition, parliament, Paul Keating, Plato, question time, Rudd government, rudd rage, speaker, westminster democracy |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 29, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/death_and_taxes.jpg" The latest issue of the Centre for Policy Development‘s online mag, Insight, is out, and ‘Taxation for Our Times’ focuses on the Henry Review. I make no claims to any expertise in the technical aspects of taxation policy, [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, Government, History, Philosophy, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Amartya Sen, Australia, capacities, Centre for Policy Development, collectivism, CPD, cultural studies, Economics, Henry review, History, ideology, insight, Ken Henry, liberalism, political culture, Politics, Rudd government, Sociology, statism, tax, taxation policy |
By Kim on January 11, 2009
A couple of items which provide some food for thought: Firstly – Barack Obama does represent change from the era of the Bush administration. He is the limited change that’s possible within the logic of the current system. <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/spectrum.jpg" [...]
Posted in Economics, Media, Politics, USA | Tagged Arianna Huffington, barack obama, Blago, conservatism, global financial crisis, inauguration, left and right, liberalism, political scandal, TARP bailout, US political parties, US politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 5, 2009
This post is a sequel to my previous one on economic faith and doctrines. When reflecting further about the ideological construction of “oppressive state intervention” and some of the comments made on the thread, I kept thinking about the fact [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged economic liberalism, Economics, epistemology, faith, global financial crisis, ideologies, Leo Panitch, liberalism, mixed economy, neoliberalism, political ideologies, political philosophy, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science |
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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