By Kim on April 21, 2010
It was interesting on the news tonight to hear veiled suggestions from airlines that planes should be flying anyway in Europe, despite more volcanic ash being emitted by the Eyjafjallajökull volcano. Also significant was the description of the volcano as [...]
Posted in Climate change, Disasters, Economics, Energy, Europe, Politics, Science, Sociology, Technology, Transport | Tagged air transport, airlines, Climate change, complexity, Europe, European Union, Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland, late modernity, nature, nef, new economics foundation, peak oil, resilience, risk society, Science, Sociology, sustainability, Technology, Transport, Victoria Johnson, volcano |
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 February 4, 2010
Overland editor Jeff Sparrow has a great piece in Crikey today, reflecting on the significance of Christopher Monckton’s tour of Australia. If you’re not signed up, I’d strongly urge you to take out a trial subscription to read the whole [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Federal Elections, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Christopher Monckton, climate change denialism, climate change policy, Coalition, Crikey, Culture, Culture Wars, elites, emotion, Jeff Sparrow, knowledge, Liberal Party, Menzies, nature, overland, populism, rationality, Science, science studies, Sociology, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 4, 2010
One of the accusations frequently made by climate change deniers or ‘skeptics’ against those who would like to see concerted action taken to ameliorate the impacts of anthropogenic global warming is that of being somehow apocalyptic. A related charge is [...]
Posted in Activism, Apocalypse, Authoritarianism, Climate change, Disasters, Economics, Energy, Environment, History, International, Politics, Religion, Sociology, Technology | Tagged AGW, anthropogenic global warming, Apocalypse, Capitalism, Climate change, climate change denialism, collective action, conservatism, contingency, Culture, disavowal, ecology, end of history, Energy, History, ideology, necessity, neo-liberalism, non-renewable resources, peak oil, Politics, resources, Science, Slavoj Žižek, the imaginary, utopia, world politics |
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 September 1, 2009
Those who recall the furore over the hoax of Keith Windschuttle and Quadrant earlier in the year might be interested in reading an article by the hoaxer in question, Katherine Wilson, in Meanjin, wherein she discusses her motivations.
Posted in Activism, Books, Writers & Writing, Ethics, Science | Tagged hoax, Katherine Wilson, keith windschuttle, literary hoaxes, Politics, Quadrant, Science |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 28, 2009
On Line Opinion has been featuring pieces on the internet and everyday life throughout August. My contribution, published today, examines some questions about the social and cultural implications of new media technologies, and in the process, busts some myths about [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Education, Language, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Blogging, cultural studies, cyberculture, digital age, digital culture, digital literacy, internet, internet studies, Mark Bahnisch, New communications technologies, new media, On Line Opinion, Queensland Writers Centre, Science, social media, Sociology, Technology, web 2.0, writing |
By Robert Merkel on April 28, 2009
Joshua Gans notes Barack Obama’s speech at the the US National Academy of sciences, in which he proposes an increase of the US’s national R&D expenditure to 3% of GDP, amongst other initiatives. One of the many good things about [...]
Posted in Economics, Policy, Science, USA | Tagged barack obama, basic research, innovation, Science |
By Guest Poster on March 26, 2009
MB writes: Folks might recall I mentioned about a month ago that I was judging UTS’ online journalism award. I’m very pleased indeed to publish the winning entry – by Melanie Macfarlane. You can read more about Melanie’s background and [...]
Posted in Crime, Culture, Education, Film, TV, Video etc, Law, Media, Science, Sociology, USA | Tagged award, Bones, career advice, Crime, CSI, cultural studies, Dana Scully, detection, drama, forensic science, journalism, Media, Melanie Macfarlane, online journalism, policing, Science, Sociology, student work, Television, Temperance Brennan, university, UTS, X Files |
By Kim on March 24, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/lovelace.jpg" align=left It’s Ada Lovelace Day – a day dedicated to blogging about women in science and technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Feminism, History, Science, Technology | Tagged cultural studies, Feminism, fiction, Isaac Asimov, representation, Robot novels, Science, science fiction, Susan Calvin, Technology, Women |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 15, 2009
[With apologies to Apocalypse Now] <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/coffee-poster.bmp" align=left I’ve been racking my brain to try to remember where a very spiffy article was published late last year about how to get scientific findings reported in the media… because I strongly [...]
Posted in Food, Levity, Life, Media, Science, Sociology | Tagged caffeine, coffee, Durham University, Science, study |
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