Lazy Sunday
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what else did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
Spooky action at a distance, and perhaps closer at hand
Casey asked a question on the Pope Francis thread: I have a general question I’d be pleased if the atheists answered: Have any of you guys had supernatural experiences, you know, ghosts and things, and what did you make of […]
Are we ever more individual? Or is that the wrong question? A historical sociology of interiority and ascesis
I’ve been reading Guy G. Stroumsa’s The End of Sacrifice, which looks at religious transformations or mutations in the transitions from paganism to Christianity, and Axial moments.
Accord nostalgia, Labourism and the fact challenged ‘economic debate’
A number of intriguing trajectories of argument have crossed over recently, as the Labor government continues to be under great pressure. In leaving the Gillard Cabinet, Martin Ferguson called for an end to ‘class war’ politics (see previous post by […]
Eidos Institute Conference – ‘Social Media in Times of Crisis’
I’m one of the speakers at an Eidos Institute Conference in Brisbane at the State Library of Queensland next Thursday 4 April. It’s a very topical theme, and I think promises some very interesting and stimulating interchange. I plan to […]
Semiotic weapons
The power of clothes: why is this still even a debate that serious people are having?
#sos13 – Saving Our Senate
John Quiggin writes: Discussion over the Labor leadership, and the government in general, is now academic, in the pejorative sense of the term. Barring a shock on a larger scale than that of 2001, Abbott is going to win the […]
Time Magazine endorses Marx, notices class struggle
I’m always intrigued when the business press publishes articles that say “well, Marx was probably right”. Here’s Michael Schuman in Time Business and Money: With the global economy in a protracted crisis, and workers around the world burdened by joblessness, […]
Productivity – the great non-problem of our time?
Productivity matters, in the long term. The more valuable the goods and services we, as Australians, can produce by our labour, the higher our material standard of living – or, alternatively, we can choose to work less and take our […]
Gary Gray and Climate Change Denialism: From the LP archives
Sadly, the more things change, the more things stay the same, it would seem.
NB: Any comments on the Cabinet Reshuffle are also on topic for this thread.