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By Mark Bahnisch on August 8, 2011
I intend to write on Erik Olin Wright’s important book Envisioning Real Utopias, but I thought it might be useful to make it a five part series, rather than the world’s longest blog post. I’d also like to have a [...]
Posted in Featured, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Charles Fourier, Enlightenment, envisioning realistic utopias, erik olin wright, Hayek, imaginary, John Locke, Marx, Marxism, neo-liberalism, philosophy, political philosophy, political theory, Popper, social change, social democracy, Sociology, Thomas Hobbes, utopia, utopian socialism |
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 December 8, 2009
I’ve had a stab, in a guest post over at Overland, at looking at how the tendencies we’ve always had to succumbing to magical thinking make climate change a very difficult challenge for politics – particularly when we need to [...]
Posted in Climate change, Culture, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Bruno Latour, Climate change, climate change policy, cultural politics, Culture, epistemology, knowledge, Mark Bahnisch, nature, overland, political theory, Science, science studies, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 28, 2009
Writing in the always fabulous London Review of Books, David Bromwich has a very interesting argument on why Barack Obama has been something of a disappointment. Though Bromwich’s political commitments are fairly well known – at least to readers of [...]
Posted in Culture, Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, barack obama, David Bromwich, Fox news, Huffington Post, HuffPo, ideology, London Review of Books, LRB, political culture, political theory, right, US politics |
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 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 Mark Bahnisch on September 19, 2009
The Australian is running a series on defining the left (!), kicking off with a contribution today by Tim Soutphommasane. Soutphommasane is apparently the go to person at the moment for all things social democratic, having written a book arguing [...]
Posted in Culture, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged agency, ALP, Amartya Sen, canon, capabilities, Culture Wars, Demos, egalitarianism, electoral politics, History, ideology, internationalism, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labourism, left, Lenin, mateship, narrative, Nationalism, New Labour, patriotism, Paul Kelly, political culture, political identity, political philosophy, political theory, Politics, Rudd government, social democracy, social inclusion, social justice, socialism without doctrines, Sociology, The Australian, Tim Soutphommasane, values, What's Left |
By Kim on May 5, 2009
Lots could be said about the politics of the CPRS backdown, and no doubt lots of people are saying lots. Good for The Greens? An issue for a double dissolution? Issue management a la KRudd? Greg Combet positioning himself as [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Markets, Policy | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, business, Climate change, corporatism, cprs, democracy, Emissions trading scheme, ets, Greg Combet, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Penny Wong, political theory, Rudd government, Sociology, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 12, 2008
Over at Catallaxy, Jason Soon links to Kerry Miller’s article in Spiked about Clive Hamilton’s influence in the propagation of the idea of the “Clean Feed” web censorship plan. There are some strange alliances around this issue, and Miller, who [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Howardia, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, The Web | Tagged ALP, Australia Institute, Authoritarianism, Catholic right, censorship, Clive Hamilton, Guy Rundle, Indigenous policy, Jason Soon, Jenny Macklin, Julia Gillard, Kerry Miller, Labor, last superpower, liberalism, libertarianism, Lindsay Tanner, no clean feed, Noel Pearson, political philosophy, political science, political sociology, political theory, post-materialism, Religion, Rudd government, social democracy, social policy, Sociology, stephen conroy, Third Way, Tony Abbott, Warren Mundine |
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