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By Kim on March 3, 2010
I don’t know what qualifications you need to be a public intellectual. I think you get such a gig because readers of The Age have voted for you, or something. But apparently playwright Louis Nowra is one. In 2007, he [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Ethics, Feminism, Media, Politics, Women | Tagged anti-feminism, Bad Dreaming, ben naparstek, Feminism, Germaine Greer, literature, Louis Nowra, Media, misogyny, Sociology, The Female Eunuch, The Indpendent, The Monthly |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 30, 2009
In a post reproducing and expanding on his op/ed in the Australian Financial Review today, Andrew Leigh writes: For not-so-surprising reasons, I’ve been thinking lately about lifecycles. My AFR op-ed today (partially written with a newborn babe in the crook [...]
Posted in Art, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Music, Sociology | Tagged age, Andrew Leigh, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, creativity, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, David Galenson, Degas, Economics, economists, Edward Said, generations, innovation, literature, Munch, Music, On Late Style, Picasso, Sociology, Wassily Kandinsky |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 23, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/2843867562_305155f1f5_o.jpg" Sadly, J. G. Ballard has died. An enormous literature has appeared online paying tribute to his life and work. Noteable, I thought, was an article in Salon by Simon Reynolds, who treats Ballard as a fabulist of ideas, [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, International, Music, Photography, Sociology, Technology, The Web | Tagged Apocalypse, Autopsy of the new millennium, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Culture, dystopia, J. G. Ballard, literature, Music, post-punk, science fiction, Simon Reynolds, speculative fiction |
By Kim on February 8, 2009
The SFnal post of the year (so far) has to be Shannan Palma’s “How to know if you’re reading a bad book” at the Feminist SF Blog. Well worth reading! A couple of related posts – buying into the whole [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Feminism | Tagged Books, Writers & Writing, coins, criticism, cultural field, cultural studies, fantasy, feminist sf, I Ching, image, John Birmingham, literature, Philip K. Dick, photo, picture, Pierre Bourdieu, Sam Jordison, science fiction, sf, Shannan Palma, speculative fiction, Writers & Writing |
By Kim on December 3, 2008
Pirate by ~Loserbabooser on deviantART I’m not at all so sure that the connection between current crisis and future speculation (or speculative futures) is as straightforward as Felix Gilman suggests at Ecstatic Days, but I find these questions quite the [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Books, Writers & Writing, Climate change, Culture, Developing world, Disasters, Economics, Environment, International, Markets, Poverty, Security, Urbanism, War | Tagged Climate change, Dickens, Felix Gilman, futures, genre fiction, global financial crisis, Jeff VanderMeer, literary imagination, literature, pirates, resource wars, science fiction, speculative fiction, steam punk, subgenres, urban fantasy, writing |
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