By Mark Bahnisch on May 26, 2010
Wayne Swan recently said that mining company executives were either lying or displaying their ignorance in their statements about the Resources Super Profits Tax, a comment which apparently horrified Kerry O’Brien: how could this be true of respected business leaders? [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on May 16, 2010
The biggest story in social media over the last couple of months has been the rapid decline in trust between Facebook and its users. Far from being a phenomenon restricted to techie activists, Facebook’s campaign to push an ever increasing [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on May 4, 2010
LBJ used to tell a story about an old Southern Senator who, depressed by the repetitive politics of race baiting and populism, yearns to return to his state one last time to give a “good old Democratic speech”. Today, Gordon [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Politics | Tagged Citizens UK, conservatives, David Miliband, electoral system, fairness, first past the post, gordon brown, ideology, Labour, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, marginal consituencies, New Labour, Peter Mandelson, socialism, Speech, tactical voting, Tories, Tory party, UK election 2010, youtube |
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 [...]
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Blogging, Ethics, Government, History, Life, Policy, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged ALP, biopolitics, Bob Carr, Capitalism, censorship, civil liberties, efa, electronic frontiers australia, expertise, Francis Fukuyama, freedom, governance, governmentality, ideology, internet filter, labor party, labourism, left, mark latham, michel foucault, neo-liberalism, New Labour, personal freedom, Policy, political communication, rationality, risk society, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, state labor governments, statism, stephen conroy, ulrich beck |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 26, 2010
There’s been a bit of word play on another thread about John Quiggin‘s discussion of the coinage of the term ‘Agnatology’ to describe “the study of the manufacture of ignorance”. There are resonances between his diagnosis of the political right [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Feminism, History, International, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, autonomy, bogan politics, Donald Sassoon, end of ideology, Feminism, Geoffrey Barker, ideology, ignorance, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labour party, labourism, left, Liberal Democrats, liberation movements, light on the hill, managerialism, mutulalism, New Labour, Nina Power, Nordic democracies, political culture, political economy, political institutions, political sociology, right, Rudd government, social change, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, sweden, Third Way, transformation |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 17, 2009
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been preoccupied with festive socialising and the fact that you haven’t bought any Christmas presents yet. But, in the rarefied circles of political tragedy, there’s a frisson of excitement, or perhaps manic enthusiasm, unrelated [...]
Posted in Howardia, Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Andrew Elder, anti-Labor, Arthur Sinodinos, Churchill, Churchillian, Coalition, election funding, fundraising, ideology, John Howard, Liberal Party, Nationals, Pauline Hanson, political parties, Polls, populism, redistribution, ressentiment, small business, socialism, Sociology, Spartacus, tax, Tony Abbott |
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 June 19, 2009
One recent-ish article I missed in Wired but had a vague awareness of from discussion elsewhere is Kevin Kelly’s piece on the new socialism and digital collectivism. It struck me as very curious that the libertarian tinged techno-utopians at Wired [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Culture, International, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged collectivism, cultural studies, digital culture, inequality, Kevin Kelly, research, rhetoric, socialism, Sociology, techno-utopianism, utopia, web, Whole Earth Catalog, Wired |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 27, 2008
I’m not sure if I’m the only one who found the juxtaposition on the news last night of discussion of global regulation at a meeting between Chinese and EU leaders and George W. Bush’s “free markets are great!” remarks rather [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on October 13, 2008
SocProf over at The Global Sociology Blog and I must be reading the same things, and thinking along similar lines, because I had planned to link to precisely the same articles she highlights in an update to my recent post [...]
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All politics is local, but power is global
By Kim on October 30, 2008
The Guardian’s Comment is Free website and Soundings magazine are organising a series of debates on the theme of After New Labour: Who owns the progressive future?. Some of the contributions are making it online. After excoriating the “Third Way” [...]
Posted in Activism, Feminism, International, Politics, Sociology | Tagged civil society, Comment is Free, Feminism, globalisation, international politics, left, New Labour, ngos, political sociology, power, social democracy, social movements, socialism, Sociology, Soundings, Third Way, Who owns the progressive future, Zygmunt Bauman | 21 Responses