By Kim on April 8, 2010
The latest controversy to emerge from the inquiry into the Victorian bushfires revolves around Christine Nixon going off for dinner in the middle of the conflagration. The usual partisan football stuff, you might think. Guy Rundle disagrees. In a powerful [...]
Posted in Disasters, Ethics, Government, Politics, Sociology, Victoria | Tagged black saturday, bushfires, Guy Rundle, inquiry, john brumby, Max Weber, political sociology, state governments, Victorian government, Victorian politics |
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 12, 2009
SocProf links to a really fascinating piece on Obama’s Nobel Prize [previous LP discussion here] by Don Waisanen at ThickCulture, riffing on Weber’s characterisation of modernity as disenchantment of the world. It would appear that the Nobel committee at least [...]
Posted in Culture, Imperialism, International, Politics, Sociology, USA, War | Tagged barack obama, Bush administration, disenchantment, George W. Bush, Max Weber, modernity, Nobel Peace Prize, Politics, postmodernism, postmodernity, reenchantment, rhetoric, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 1, 2008
On a couple of reports on tonight’s tv news, I saw a citizen of Mumbai being interviewed who demanded the Indian government go to war with Pakistan. That set me to wondering what such a war – and God forbid [...]
Posted in Disasters, Government, History, International, Politics, Sociology, Terrorism, War | Tagged assymetrical warfare, attacks, Eric Hobsbawm, global sociology, globalisation, globalism, India, Max Weber, modernity, Mumbai, Norbert Elias, pakistan, political sociology, Saskia Sassen, Sociology, state, state power, Terrorism, Urbanism, War, warfare |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 24, 2008
I kinda wish Kevin Rudd had never put his thoughts on Friedrich Von Hayek on paper, because had he not we’d have been saved some appallingly ill-informed “debates”. Although, if expert psephologist Janet Albrechtsen is right, Rudd’s articles on Howard’s [...]
Posted in Economics, History, Markets, Media, Philosophy, Sociology | Tagged alan wood, austrian economics, austrian economists, bank deposit guarantee, brutopia, collective action, economic policy, economic thought, Economics, epistemology, financial markets, free market, Friedrich Von Hayek, global financial crisis, historicism, ideology, Janet Albrechtsen, Kevin Rudd, Markets, Max Weber, methodensreit, neo-liberalism, philosophy of history, philosophy of social science, Rudd government, social action, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, unintended consequences |
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