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By Mark Bahnisch on April 16, 2010
Peter Black from Electronic Frontiers Australia asked me to contribute to a series of posts the EFA is publishing to draw attention to its current fundraising campaign. Please consider donating to the EFA in order to fund its continued work [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on November 17, 2009
It would be interesting to study the role of the economics editor. In Australia, at least, those papers and media outlets which employ such a person appear to see the role as enforcing the BCA line on liberal economics, even [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on October 22, 2009
Australia Post, which has been one of the many distributors for the excellent series of orange Popular Penguins, last week decreed that three titles could not be sold through their outlets – Anais Nin’s Delta of Venus, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Politics, Sexuality | Tagged Australia Post, banned books, Books, Writers & Writing, censorship, Delta of Venus, History of Sexuality, Jessica Au, Lolita, Meanjin, michel foucault, Popular Penguins, Spike, Vladimir Nabokov, Writers & Writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 2, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/3153159979_d584827f6d.jpg" Happy New Year 2009 image courtesy of zltgfx at flickr – reproduced under a creative commons licence. There are quite a few cultural constants of New Year’s Eve – fireworks (and the illegal ones in my neck of [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Life, Philosophy, Relationships, Religion, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged calendar, choice, confession, Crikey, cultural sociology, cultural studies, freedom, habitus, holidays, individualism, Life, lifeworld, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, michel foucault, new year, new year's resolutions, new years eve, NYE, phenomenology, Pierre Bourdieu, Queensland election 2009, QUT, resolutions, Smart Services CRC, Sociology, strategy, work, work/life balance |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 29, 2008
Club Troppo’s Don Arthur and I started a correspondence by email about some of the issues I raised in my post the other day about neo-liberalism and thinktanks, and the very rapid Blairisation of the Rudd/Gillard agenda (which has certainly [...]
Posted in Education, Ethics, History, International, Philosophy, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, battle of ideas, Blair government, Carl Schmitt, classical liberalism, Coalition, education policy, education revolution, governmentality, historical sociology, jacques derrida, John Howard, John Locke, Julia Gillard, Karl Marx, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Margaret Thatcher, michel foucault, neoliberalism, New Labour, political ideologies, political imaginary, political philosophy, political sociology, school education, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of ideologies, state formation, Tony Blair |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 7, 2008
In the spheres and circles in which Planet Janet moves, it’s “defend the Enlightenment” week. At first, I thought this was just the latest volley in the denialist wars, but now that we know that Ayaan Hirsi Ali is in [...]
Posted in Education, Ethics, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Ayaan Hirsi Ali, cultural studies, Culture Wars, education wars, ethical relativism, gavin kitching, higher education, humanism, jacques derrida, john frow, laughing at the disabled, ludwig wittgenstein, michael noonan, michel foucault, paralysed by postmodernism, political science, postmodernism, scholarly standards, The Enlightenment, The West |
Of media narratives, truth and narratologies
By Mark Bahnisch on November 17, 2009
It would be interesting to study the role of the economics editor. In Australia, at least, those papers and media outlets which employ such a person appear to see the role as enforcing the BCA line on liberal economics, even [...]
Posted in Advertising, Culture, Economics, Markets, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Andrew Charlton, BCA, commentariat, confession, Culture, cyber-utopianism, discourse, economic policy, economics journalism, ideology, Kevin Rudd, March of Patriots, marketing, Michael Sutchbury, michel foucault, Monthly Essay, narrative, narratology, neo-liberalism, Paul Kelly, policy narrative, productivity commission, reason, Rudd government, Sociology, therapeutic cultures, truth | 46 Responses