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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 September 28, 2009
Not to be outdone by The Australian, Quadrant has launched its own series on the left. This time with non-leftists writing it… And writing about the Australian‘s articles. Jason Soon, for instance, along the way to arguing that social justice [...]
Posted in Blogging, Culture, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Derrida, Gary Sauer-Thompson, ideology, Jason Soon, Julia Gillard, Larvatus prodeo, left, LP, postmodernism, Quadrant, Quadrant Online, social democracy, social justice, The Australian, the left, What's Left |
By Kim on January 11, 2009
One of the ironies of the Windschuttle kerfuffle is that Alan Sokal has a new book out. Perhaps all those Sokal analogies will help his sales. At any rate, blogger and UPenn cultural studies prof Michael Bérubé has some very [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Media, Philosophy, Science, Sociology | Tagged Alan Sokal, Beyond the Hoax: Science, cultural studies, epistemology, hoax, Katherine Wilson, keith windschuttle, Michael Bérubé, Philosophy and Culture, postmodernism, Quadrant, relativism, science studies, sharon gould, sociology of science |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 20, 2008
I think it was klaus k who once suggested on this blog that we should completely eschew the word “postmodernism”, so vacuous and meaningless has it become. That seems a proposal worth reviving when you read an astonishing take on [...]
Posted in Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Politics | Tagged abc, Culture Wars, digital futures, funding, new media, News Limited columnists, postmodernism, public broadcasting, Radio National, Religion Report, Stephen Crittenden |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 22, 2008
My colleague Terry Flew takes a look on his blog at the latest controversy over teh evils of postmodernism (and neo-Marxism!) in academia. In regard to The Australian, he writes: In two articles (Sat and Mon) referring to the Culture [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Education, Media, Security, Terrorism, War | Tagged academic freedom, ADFA, ASPI, Carl Ungerer, Culture Wars, David Lovell, gary maclennan, higher education, international relations, James Cook University, john Hookham, Mervyn Bendle, michael noonan, political science, postmodernism, Quadrant, research, research funding, scholarly ethics, security studies, terrorism studies, Terry Flew, Tony Burke, UNSW |
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 |
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