"When philosophy paints its grey in grey then has a shape of life grown old. By philosophy's grey in grey it cannot be rejuvenated but only understood. The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of dusk." -- G.W.F. Hegel, 'Preface', Philosophy of Right.
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'Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainity and agitation distinquish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones ... All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned.' Marx
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the corporate university + the knowledge economy
neo-liberalism: transforming the economy
Martha Nussbaum on capabilities
'War on the Internet' event: - Scott Ludlam
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
capitalism + natural boundaries
the apocalyptic reaction in the US
a new techno-economic paradigm?
American conservatism + populism
the shit hits the fan
the rule of law
the image is a commodity
the aesthetic attitude
governing poverty
the contradictory sides of capitalism
a citizen-centric internet
philosophical divisions
walls and anxiety in political discourse
the corporatized academy
social democracy's cultural challenges
Glocalization
Duchamp's readymades + artistic labour
asset stripping the humanities
the dialogic humanities
the specter of disruption to the preferred order
Responsibility to Protect
The Nuclear Emergency in Japan: An Overview
Debord, exchange value, spectacle
open access
the neo-liberal state
Middle East: new democratic possibilities
Multiculturalism
resonance
Civic patriotism
neo-liberal growth
neo-liberal 'logics of control'
Adorno + Kant
systematic crisis + capitalism
Libertarians + positive rights
capitalism as religion
Deleuze + Guattari: desire
privatize, privatize, and privatize some more
Xmas
we as subjects of “human capital"
The Anglosphere
biopolitics + sovereign power
Adorno: dialectic of enlightenment
Max Weber + capitalism
American conservatism as Counter Enlightenment
fairness as desert
Adorno: nonidentity
neo-liberalism + the reshaping of universities
Adorno: 'the shudder'
universities in a digital age
the transformation of liberalism
neo-liberalism + inequality
‘culturalism’
an aesthetic economy
The 'Unhappy Country'?
Thesis Eleven
understanding water management in Australia
Foucault on Governmentality and Liberalism
water + power
ethics + economics
the economic policy regime in Australia
regional development + the global economy
Adam Smith in Beijing
globalization and national populist parties
populism revisited
reforming parliament
austerity v stimulus
"there is no such thing as a free lunch"
G.A. Cohen: Rescuing Justice and Equality
Christian fundamentalism: an anti-modernist backlash
neo-liberalism as governmentality
the new disrespect for economists
markets + debt
digital capitalism
the Right and Fascism
a genuine depression?
Schmitt + Australian conservatism
the new austerity
Crossing Conceptual Boundaries
responding to globalization
questioning progressivism
Jacqueline Rose: the story of Dreyfus
the current crisis of capitalism
the neo-liberal project
Dialectic of Enlightenment: a note
deliberative democracy + deliberation
Liberal Democrats + Liberalism in 21st century
capitalism's business as usual
Jameson on the end of modernism
Harvey on neo-liberalism
healthcare + profit
'change the culture'
an ocularcentric paradigm?
Nietzsche + the Enlightenment tradition
Robert Kagan + The Kantian paradox
Xmas Day: Solway rose
Agamben + biopolitics
The IPA + market failure
Malcolm Turnbull: Truth to Power
modernity: a note
Merleau-Ponty + the body
reinventing Conservatism?
Merleau-Ponty + traditional epistemology
paraniod nationalism
Neo-liberal governmentality
Adorno, art, happiness
Multicultural Citizenship + Civic Pluralism
National Security State
positive liberty
economics + freedom
on human rights
Australian exceptionalism
Krugman on the failures of economists
an embodied gaze
Australian conservatism is what?
John Howard on a Bill of Rights.
growth v sustainability
The Changing Media Landscape
Berlin on liberty
Neo-classical economics: a note
Australia's renewable energy future
Unipolarity: a mirage?
beyond a stables economy
a neo-liberal utopia
questioning positivism
looking back to look forward
indigenous housing + land tenure
biopower, Foucault
about patriotism
questioning economics
Gaia
going online
recovering rhetoric
On being postacademic
corporate university
economics and emissions trading policy
Foucault + capitalist rationality
War as part of the American way of life
conservatism: liberty + tradition
Žižek on authoritarian capitalism
The surveillance state
call for a new financial system inquiry
people reloaded: why mass protest in Iran is true politics worth supporting
democrat deficit
social conservative/economic liberal mix
Telos + Critical Theory
modernizing the liberal university
New Labour: welfare reform
torture and secrecy
Hegel + agency
reinventing social democracy
democracy undermined
American hegemony
critically exploring economics
Libertarianism/neoliberalism
David Harvey, Marx, economic crisis
education policy in Australia
market talk
a dying conservatism
after market failure
targeting indigenous bodies
Rethinking Australian history
neo-liberal democracy + policy advice
Israel + the seige of Gaza
civic education
capitalism crashes
Merry Xmas
Australia's compulsory "clean feed" on all internet subscribers
Minima Moralia: Toward the End
regulating capitalism
For the Common Good
the internet, agora, Obama
our obligations to other animals
Obama's burden
reception of French 'theory'
Obama's 'Yes we can' victory speech
a good question
government and market failure
Raymond Guess on philosophy and politics
historical change
Robert Reich: hard times in the US
returning to social democracy?
Review of Northern Territory Emergency Response
flows and borders
the current conjuncture of world capitalist development
idealised economics
liberalism + morality
populist conservatism
Michael Sandel: the moral limits of markets
Hyman P. Minsky: “financial-instability hypothesis”
Rawls, political philosophy, political life
Rawls: Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy
Barack Obama: Democratic National Convention Speech
Rethinking Indigenous policy
Hayek, classical liberalism, liberal order
Germaine Greer: On Rage
industry protection and greenhouse gas reduction
internet + transparency of governance
the art of government
Foucault + Enlightenment
China's Great Firewall
republican liberty
Hobbes on political liberty
Enlightenment's schema: faith and reason
a new mode of politics
republicanism
totalitarianism.
civil society
dealing with what is passing away
the demise of liberal illusions
Charles Taylor: expressivism
Schmitt on the parliamentary liberal state
liberalism's incoherence
a different world now
Old actions, new clothes
modernity's monsters
managerial liberal state
neo-liberalism
desert + retribution
the liberal Managerial State
a managerial liberal state
Piccone, modernity, tradition
universities as the knowledge business
escaping the 20th century
think tanks, professional blogging
nature and terror
Burma: national sovereignty + humanitarian crisis
Hegel's dialectic
Preface to Ted Mullighan's Report on sexual abuse in 'The Lands' in SA
the neo-liberal university
Liberal Constitutionalism
rethinking the political
Reverend Wright
David Harvey: Spaces of Hope
David Harvey on neo-conservatism
Soros on the financial markets
okaying torture
interpreting the Australian constitution
implied constitutional rights
rethinking universities under Rudd Labor
Gruen on neo-liberalism
public reason in Australia
the answer to meltdown is more deregulation
liberal democracy + climate change
Web 2 + 2020 Summit
Health rights
Close the Gap
Burchell on Rudd Labor
a schizoid university
the sorry business
assimilation returns
‘Australia’ as an Enlightenment project?
'structures of welcoming'
Liberal internationalism
shared blogger households in Washington
Hayek, neo-liberalism,
economic sociology
between frontier spaces and bordered realms
the ‘crisis of the university’
critique in dark times
Rudd Labor: neo-liberalism + social democracy
CIA Rendition
William F. Buckley
public culture + democracy
a shift in global power
democracy, blogging, gatekeeping
The Australian's search for credibility
Hobbes, language, interpretation,
that poisoned bag of flour
Pearson on the Apology
saying sorry
Simon Critchley's Infinitely Demanding
neo-liberalism
universities, humanities, liberalism
hostility to rights
media, democracy, power
'Trust me' government
America's unipolar moment
Australia Day
western alliance in a Hobbesian world
Bourdieu + collective intellectual
academia: myth + reality
surveillance
Roskam on rights
diagnosing world historical events
changes in the liberal state
decay of the liberal state
Treasury, capability development
Nietzsche
between the national and the global
Ken Henry, indigenous disadvantage, capability development
Rancière and the political
revisiting populism
Rorty: philosophy & democracy
European federation
Arendt, The Jewish Writings
Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal
thinking about capitalism
Xmas day
Minnie Pwerle
Julian Tudor Hart on Health care
An Xmas card
virtues and communities
The Internet as the fifth estate?
a note on economics
a window on power
violent democracies
morality +politics
interpreting constitutions
on holidays
the growth of surveillance
Skinner on Hobbes + the state
from welfare to opportunity society
Australian Republicanism and Public Health/Education
Ranciere: disagreement
Mark Latham on modern politics
market follies
Ranciere: "philosophy" and the "political"
Foucault: the police
overconsumption
Panopticism
Against the new Authoritarianism
Foucault , surveillance, panopticism
freedom as self-realization
liberalism + republicanism
Raymond Aron on Hayek and political reason
Switzer on Conservatism in Australia
Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents
Friedman's libertarianism
Kristol on neo-conservatism
second rate public intellectuals
Dialectic of Enlightenment
what now for the liberal university?
social exclusion
Adorno: History and freedom
restoring the social contract
about populism # 1
Divided nation
Galarrwuy Yunupingu's backflip
making the world safe for freedom
Sophocles: To him who is in fear, everything rustles
David Malouf on res publica
about populism
Joseph Schumpeter + creative destruction
Noel Pearson: integration /assimilation
Ackerman on the separation of powers
a marketplace of moral sentiments, images,
legal blogging
political changes
Jeff Malpas on Arendt + the political
Andrew Inglis Clarke: nation + sovereignty
Federation debates
governing climate change
academia and public reason
market failure
progressives losing their way?
liberalism
from hunting to drinking
Scruton on conservatism
self-determination
governing Australia
a postcolonial project
is politics agonistic
Leo Strauss revisited
Enlightenment and Terror
Cheryl Saunders on judicial activism
Expansion of judicial power
Michael Kirby on judicial activism
a Bill of Rights
judicial activism
Different constitutionalisms
High Court conservatism
governing Australia the Howard way
Indigenous communities: why the booze?
a shadowy existence
Atheism and Morality
High Court +federalism
Tin Dunlop's missing Blogocracy post
Martin Leet on reform
a utilitarian society
Dame Roma Mitchell Oration: Hilary Charlesworth
political action is...
noble savages and cultural musems
Noel Pearson wobbles
ideology #2
ideology
a post-political utopia
indigenous development
libertarianism + indigenous well being
Indigenous communites, social norms, welfare reform
Sovereign by Exception
governing indigenous people
Cape York Welfare Reform Project
Richard Rorty
Indigenous people,democracy, power
Little Children Are Sacred: note on public policy
wellbeing and progress
deregulating higher education
Convention and the Force of Practice
globalization backlash
politicising the bureaucracy
Hadrian's Sovereignty
social liberalism
Ethics of economic rationalism
debate about America as empire
a note on propserity & happiness
it's neglect
just like Londistan
citizenship, liberalism, democracy
the naked public square
religion and state
conservatism, 9/11, cultural left
cosmopolitanism + national citizenship
Pax Romana and Pax Americana
Noel Pearson on Rudd's critique of neo-liberalism
Deleuze
utopian puzzles: America + Australia
Benjamin Barber: citizenship in a global world
Relevance of Rome to a Modern Republic
more democracy needed
Rethinking social democracy
Liberal democracy's space for citizens
Levinas: rethinking liberalism?
Hayek and state planning
Hayek, Democracy
Hayek: Economics and Knowledge
Hayek, knowledge, markets
Derrida on philosophy
Redemptive politics
liberalism in a broken form
Redemption and politics
Hegel on the state revisited
Parrhesia + democracy
a note on historical agency
Democracy + religion
democracy, religion, tradition
legal reasoning
Foucault, unreason, governmentality
from liberal to neo-liberal political rationality
liberalism as a political rationality
neo-liberalism + families
Saunders contra the welfare state
Saunders on family life + community
markets + morality
Saunders on capitalism+ family life
neo-liberalism as governance
freedom in the war against terrrorism
Blair's Ghosts
Private troubles public issues
immigation, nationality, disavowal
Oakeshott +conservatism
globalisation: fair trade+social justice
panopticism
war conditions#2
war conditions
public opinion, ignorance, democracy
Libertarian strands+ contradictions
Zimbabwe+totalitarianism
progressivism + liberalism
Remembering Edmund Burke
containing China
sovereignty +governmentality
paranoia in the world of nations
a "concert "of power
Walzer + war
Iraq syndrome?
Indigneous communities: violence +sexual abuse
religious fundamentalism + enlightenment
globalization and global cities
Londistan: Melanie Philips in Australia
media +politics
rhetoric +public sphere.
biopower and sovereignty
Arendt: interpreting the political in modernity
Condoleezza Rice defends empire
Guantánamo Bay: No Exit
Legal Morality and Australian Republicanism
inside Guantanamo Bay
questioning Zionism
arguing for republicanism
American democracy in Action
Noel Pearson: from village to hellhole
Nietzsche + friendship
Friendship and politics
innovative blogging
Arendt+responsibility
politics+immanent critique
drawing the line
rethinking political concepts
Hegel: property & right
interpreting constitutions
democracy v empire
Hegel, natural rights, recognition
beyond rights
Montesquieu + the role of independent judicial branch
natural right
Few Against Few
Schmitt and Benjamin
a new federalism
a counter-moverment to a state of exception?
Schmitt and Australian Republicanism
reconsidering imperialism
liberalism v democracy
the failings of the modern left?
facing cultural breakdown
a note on the Israeli Lobby
Adam Smith: ethics and markets
Mouffe & Schmitt on liberal democracy #2
Why Zizek for Political Theory?
Zizek, nationalism, pyschoanalysis
another kind of liberalism?
Quiggin + Farrell on social democracy
political conversations
Nussbaum, libertarianism, social democracy
philosophy in Australia
Hayek, tradition, market
classical liberalism: some puzzles
Seneca: On the Happy Life
Mouffe & Schmitt on Liberal democracy
Deaths in Custody: Mulrunji Doomadgee
Derrida on Schmitt
talking sense on democracy
utilitarianism and the political
philosophy.com: things not working as they should
reading Schmitt with Derrida
Mouffe on liberalism, democracy & Schmitt #2
Arendt, imperialism, the political
Derrida, friendship, politics
Mouffe on liberalism, democracy & Schmitt
Derrida: the Politics of Friendship
Owen Harries, US hegemony, Iraq
liberal nationalism
liberalism, the political, Schmitt
religion and public reason
Australian conservatism & Carl Schmitt
Manne on Rudd on neo-liberalism
economists, irrationality, democracy
limits of Empire
conservative populism
re-thinking the welfare state
Kevin Rudd on neo-liberalism
questioning that special relationship with the US
David Harvey on neo-liberal governance #2
critical Jewish voices
indigenous development
America's empire
David Harvey on neo-liberal governance
neoconservatism & American exceptionalism
exploring liberal citizenship
the neoconservative critique of capitalism
Zionism as a nationalism
wish fulfilment
a strange conservatism
Lowenstein's 'My Israel Question'
federalism gutted
neo-liberal governance
evaluating the Third Way
its a Hobbesian world
privatising probation services.
a weakened Congress
passive welfare
Pearson on indigenous health care
Bad Subjects
law & the humanities
truth telling
liberty and order
a supine parliament
blurring church and state
academic freedom
about "Islamo-fascism"
religion is the problem
Carmen Lawence on the politics of fear
goodbye to Marxism?
Noel Pearson on neoconservatism
a tipping point in Iraq
dystopia
"All that is solid melts into air?"
national security and conservative anxiety
Foucault & state racism
Iraq: a bleak crossroads
UK general speaks a political truth
paradoxes of democracy
multiculturalism under the hammer
the right of free speech
Zionism's strategies
on the Israeli Lobby
A critique of the Howard years
Questioning the welfare state #2
Foucault: Society Must be Defended #3
questioning the welfare state
market populism
Foucault on racism
Clinton v Fox News
Foucault's Society Must Be Defended
native title claim over metropolitan Perth
Dworkin on (deliberative) democracy #3
an imperial presidency
when interrogation crosses into torture
recovering humanity
governing terrorism
the sad state of liberalism
beyond welfare
Society Must be Defended
is ideology shaping foreign policy?
political seduction
remembering 9/11
welfare-to-work & governmentality
tolerance & governmentality
about tolerance
uni's prefer the wealthy?
empire+nationalism
a sad moment
dim prospects
Steyn in Australia: demography & destiny
Dworkin on (deliberative) democracy #2
sacrificing the rule of law
a paradox of power
Dworkin on (deliberative) democracy
about Lebanon
diversity in Australian higher education?
Criticising the Australian Govt's Middle East policy
a dearth of conservatives in Australia
Mulitculturalism, integration and separatism
law & norms
the language of 'war on terror'
a note on empire
Is the Bush doctrine really dead?
value pluralism
liberalism and value pluralism
Family First: 'strong and fair border protection'
Liberal dissent
democracy in action
The Australian's op ed trash
regional transformation
back on deck
still on holidays
conservatism as authoritarianism?
The new Rome
on holidays from philosophy
Foucault+pastorship
Foucault, the state, political knowledge, CoAG
democracy, rule, Arendt
Anti-Zionism in Australia's Academia?
On America's 'we don't do empire '
Identity, Immigration, and Liberal Democracy #2
Cicero: fear and power
Identity, Immigration, and Liberal Democracy
Israeli Lobby #2
federalism: revitalising the states?
economics & individualism
about neo-classical economics
Australian federalism
rethinking federalism the Australian way
conservative governance
a receipe for social democratic success?
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: democracy affirming
Grand strategy & empire
Arendt on power + force
the rationality of economic rationalism
liberal freedoms
cold war liberalism?
drinking from the conservative cup
a new form of paternalism
redundancy as human waste
the eclipse of the common public world
liberal governmentality
citizenship in motion
the camp as 'the nomos of the modern'
the camp as bare life
a modern gulag
compassionate conservatism?
Schmitt: the partisan & the political
Carl Schmitt: the partisan
mutations in citizenship
On Hayek: ambiguities
a political paradox
Zionism as a nationalism
An Israel Lobby
beyond laissez -faire
Zonism: implications
Spinoza, marxism & the political
liberalism's big problem
instead of words
try this: returning to Aristotle
rethinking rights--Miko Bagaric
the social democratic squeeze
state of emergency & centralizing power
Strauss, Hegel, the desire for recognition
Leo Strauss on tyranny
teaching happiness
Agamben on Arendt on refugees
Arendt's republicanism
Kant, refugees, rights
Arendt & the political
blogging, little magazines, public sphere
ruling through fear
blogging, public opinion, surveillance
state of exception
the changing nature of federalism
re-reading Leo Strauss
Senator Evans, aboriginal wellbeing, ideological baggage
Machiavelli
turning to Spinoza
integration, freedom, rights
Habermas, a critical public sphere, Machiavelli
getting by without rights?
Political liberalism
Habermas & the force of reason
national security state
The Euston Manifesto: some queries
wealth of networks
Fukuyama, modernity, struggle for recognition
Fukuyama's 'After the Neocons'
the networked information economy
Beyond Workchoices
Deirdre McCloskey: 2006 James Buchanan Lecture
Australia: a utilitarian country
the transformation of marxism
critique of liberalism: Schmitt & Strauss
We are like travelers navigating an unknown terrain with the help of old maps
Immigration, Tronti, refusal
seizing fortuna by the hair at the right moment
protecting borders v imigration
Schmitt: the political, war, violence
Schmitt on enemies and friends
re-reading Althusser
what's happening to the middle class?
getting tough on multiculturalism
a question
Tronti's 'Strategy of Refusal' #2
enemies and friends in politics
federalism's blind spots
liberal interventionism & Carl Schmitt
neo-con illusions
IR Reforms, Tronti, and the strategy of refusal
the power of lobbyists
offshoring jobs: some questioning
The ALP reflects on indigenous policy
from state to nation
democratic rule: lessons from Tasmania
rethinking sovereignty
the end of history, the last man + two Americas
Empire + sovereignty
Bush's 'state of exception'
between civil society and the state
the death of social democracy?
multitude as democracy
Empire as globlization
violent democracy
renewing social democracy
ALP -rotten to the core
Opposition politics feels like dogshit on the boot of democracy
H R Nicholls Society--where to now?
Costello's dog whistle politics
and the ' bell tolled its melancholy dirge for the dead'
Murray N. Rothbard, rhetoric, economics
liberal virtues
ALP: rhetoric and reality
neocon illusions
ALP: payback
The French New Right on the crisis of modernity
Windshuttle attacks the left-yet again
Gittens on economic growth and wellbeing
French New Right
political friendship as solidarity?
ALP: the end of solidarity?
The Latham Diaries
useful political cartoons
a divided culture
wiretapping citizens
law in a time of emergency
ethics and politics
governmentality and neo-liberalism
another kind of governance
freedom, bildung, Hegel
the political recognition of cultural particularity
on governmentality
liberal multiculturalism?
a good point
Australian values
rewriting history
West Papuan refugees fleeing Indonesian oppression?
political power as holding the fort
authority
a neo-con map of the Middle East
democratizing democracy
limits of deliberative democracy?
another kind of freedom
Ariel Sharon: a man of peace?
Arendt, praxis, political life
sovereign power & biopower
preconditions for technology parks#2
the emergency as the norm
constitutional challenges
human beings are made into subjects
re-thinking freedom after poststructuralism
technology parks
the arrogation of power
Foucault, freedom, social control
Xmas day in the national security state
out of sorts
on multiculturalism
the administration of life
neo-liberal freedom
voices from the past
Three faces of Australian conservatism
Conservatism contra liberalism
Cronulla & the Australian Right
The Politics of Fear#4
Australian neo-liberalism
disease and fear
Judiciary & anti-terrorism laws
a cartoon narrative of neo-liberalism
Hegel, abstract right, liberalism.
the politics of fear
goodbye liberalism
Anti-terrorism legislation: goodbye liberalism?
a neo-liberal mode of governance
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
neo-liberal governance
blogging and media events
Judith Brett on liberalism & conservatism
Judith Brett on liberalism
assimilation & globalization
Hegel on freedom
considering political liberalism
us and them
a condition of peace
ALP: identity crisis
Protecting Australia
France: no to multiculturalism
Leo Strauss on Hobbes, fear, political power
Judith Brett on Howard's Liberals
Carmen Lawrence on fear, power, security
discourse of terrroism
the politics of fear #2
the politics of polarization
The ALP: gone sailing?
the politics of fear
Foucault
enhancing freedoms and building capabilities
thinking about conservatism
beyond left and right
Thinking about neo-liberalism
ALP --time for renewal
interpreting Agamben
happiness as a bad idea
Norberg on prosperity and happiness
Johan Norberg on environmentalism
explorations
security
The trials of social democracy
the figure of the refugee
Robert Fisk: a public lecture
the information economy
emergency as legitimation
White Australia again
a divided Australia?
White Australia, nationalism, Fraser
Hayek revisited
White Australia policy: philosophical underpinnings
White Australia revisited
the big chill in academia
philosophy defended
The Latham Show
the play of perspectives
New Orleans as a state of emergency
Reading Arendt
Interpreting Arendt
Arendt: rhetoric and performance
politics as performance
aftermath
death of liberalism?
political kitsch?
conservatism: internally divided
liberal coercion?
Berlin, pluralism, liberalism
Multiculturalism under threat
liberalism and value pluralism
Martha Nussbaum's lecture
philosophy and politics
Arendt: philosophy and politics
do you sense the totalitarianism?
debating the end of environmentalism
Environmentalism: losing the plot?
back to the past
Edward Said & criticism
when is it right to intervene?
politics as theatre
gatekeeping and digital democracy
old style blogging
the salvation of democracy
'us' versus 'them'
rethinking republicanism
rights as capabilites
Natural right & historicism
an odd silence
'Protecting Australia Against Terrorism'
modernism in politics
Revisiting Arendt
speech, blogging and digital democracy
understanding Empire #2
Conservative discourse on Palmer Report
publicness and speech in political life
Hegel: Intro to Phenomenology of Spirit
understanding empire
Digital Democracy
the banality of evil
towards digital democracy
the state of exception is the norm
a situation of emergency requires that ...
finding my way to Arendt
rhetoric and conversation
Manifest destiny: freedom & empire US style
Hegel: on constitutions
Reading Hegel's Phenomenology
Peter Saunders on Weber and ethics
Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit
Agamben: state of exception
Agamben: 'Muselmann'
about Foucault's understanding of power
medicine, snakeoil, politics
the poverty of academe
Leo Strauss in Australia
between academia and internet gibberish
Badiou: philosophy and politics
Giorgio Agamben: Remnants of Auschwitz
debating the camps
rethinking the political space
Agamben: Australian reception#1
Giorgio Agamben: the camp in modernity
Agamben: the camps in political life
Giorgio Agamben: the homo sacer project
homo sacer: a life unworthy of being lived
welcoming the other
Refugees, human rights, bare life
neo-liberalism+welfare to work reform
blogging, political events, meaning
blogging and politics
mandatory detention unravels?
the camp
violence
politics of child welfare
in Sydney
refugees: opening the doors?
Little Australia: a parody of history
populism contra liberalism.
renewing social democracy?
Agamben, exception, homo sacer, refugees
Detention, refugees, homo sacer
letting things be#2
letting things be
Foucault, power, sovereignty#2
philosophy on the internet
Foucault, power, sovereignty
Agamben: bare life and biopolitical life
philosophy and public affairs
questioning modernity
Carl Schmitt and International law #2
social democracy and the political
Carl Schmitt & International Law #1
Schmitt, Anzacs, conservatism
Kim Beazley on Anzacs & strategic policy
Carl Schmitt & total state
media, democracy, postmodernism, New Right
Iraq & media management
a progressive ALP?
federalism, nationality, centralism
Constitutional Interpretation #2
constitutional interpretation
challenging Liberalism
Leo Strauss & political philosophy #3
Carl Schmitt, dictatorship & the state of exception
pedophilia in politics, emergency measures, constitutional dictatorship
Agamben: State of Exception #3 two examples.
Agamben: State of Exception #2
Leo Strauss & political philosophy #2
between history and geography
Giorgio Agamben & Foucault.
federalism and globalization
Fiscal dominance & Australian federalism
Arendt, Aristotle , politics
diverse strands of conservatism
place
puzzlement
Leo Strauss & political philosophy
University Inc.
A liberal International Order #2
Giorgio Agamben & ethos
ethics and politics
a liberal international order
Lebanese Independence#3
Lebanese independence
Lebanon: democracy & independence
An Australian Enlightenment?
Description of Australia
Universities in the marketplace
Joseph Stiglitz: Four quotes
the public university
The demolition of the Constitution
T. H. Green, social liberalism, positive freedom
Derrida: democracy after 9/11#2
Australia's economic elites #1
Globalization and Australia's future: a big worry
Derrida: democracy after 9/11
media mangement in liberal democracy
Neo-conservatism+liberalism
humanism as nihilism?
neoconservatism + intellectuals
Neo-Conservatism+Irving Kristol
Foucault and deliberative democracy
an impoverished left?
The rule of law
neo-conservative strategies
neo-conservatism
Shadia Drury, Leo Strauss, populism
Shadia Drury's Straussian puzzles#2: Allan Bloom
Straussian puzzles: Shadia Drury
Straussian interpretations: American
Hayek: some puzzles
Friendship in politics
Carl Schmitt & the faultlines of constitutional liberalism
citizenship in the age of terror
moral politics and regulation
Torture and the state of exception in the US
Leo Strauss in Australia
Rewriting Marx
Foucault, social medicine, governmentality.
fundamentalism #3
Giorgio Agamben on the state of exception
No friends: reflections on Mark Latham
executions and sovereignty
democracy as governmentality
Liberal fundamentalism
Critical Theory: a strange silence
Interpreting the Stoics
Carl Schmitt: taxonomy of the state
comment spam again
fundamentalism & Hegel revised
Quotable: Arundhati Roy
Constitutional presuppositions
Questioning Zionism
science & democracy
Tsunami & global security: on gaps and connections
US as a rogue superpower?
social medicine
Globalization
Foucault, medicine, and the gaze
comment spam
a seachange
The CIA as the canary in the coal mine
Critical Theory: 1 & 2
Xmas thought.
liberal tensions
High Court: defending democracy?
universities, neo-liberalism, politics
Foucauldian critique of romantic democrats
executive dominance, rule of law, citizenship
democracy on the ropes
political deliberation: looking back & forward
Conversations with the Constitution#4: public reason
deliberative democracy, Foucault, mutual obligation
political public space
dumbed down
Islam and Modernity
Hayek: constitutional liberalism
Hayek: sometimes liberal sometimes conservative
from liberal to deliberative democracy
political deliberation
decline of social liberalism
of interest
Timothy Garton Ash: imperial reason
Deliberative democracy
federalism & state rights
executive dominance
Islam and the West
The end of Zionism?
Conversations with the Constitution: Kirby on legal bedrocks
Israel: three options
cycles of violence
Derrida: a non binary politics
Conversations with the constitution#3
Habermas: facts, law, norms
capitalist rationality
Zionism & refugees
Iraqi resistance
Zionism
US foreign policy
the market system
a forum on Hardt & Negri's Empire
Robert Bork Contra liberalism
Zizek on Frank & populism
Governmentality#5
American populism
From American liberalism to populism
anamnestic reason
Athens and Jerusalem #2
governmentality#4
Changes in in or confusions about conservatism
"competition"
science & democracy
Arendt: politics as critique of modernity
governing citizens
Governmentality#3
governmentality#2
Athens and Jerusalem
a quote
Foucault & governmentality
Sydney Peace Prize Lecture: 2003#4
US: looming economic crisis?
political liberalism
Friend/enemy & fear
punching liberalism
clash of civilizations
fear in politics
the status of philosophy
Australian Strategic Policy Debate#2
Australian Strategic Policy Debate
lying as fearmongering
time for change
The US/Australia Alliance
Peace in the Middle East
Jacques Derrida: death & friendship
Conversations with the Constitution#2
Sydney Peace Prize Lecture: 2003#3
Conversations with the constitution
Sydney Peace Prize Lecture: 2003#2--Just war
Stoicism#2
Stoicism#1
Epictetus: What philosophy promises
Sydney Peace Prize Lecture: 2003
Waging the dog
citizenship: institutional not abstract
Hegel & history
sovereignty: flaws with Hardt & Negri
Social democracy transformed
social democracy: anything left?
sovereignty as discourse
Sovereignty: a violent founding
nation-states & sovereignty#2
Nation states & Sovereignty
clash of civilizations
federalism & subsidiarity
Empire & the US
defining the left
terrorist provocations
Fear's Empire#2
citizenship & Australian Constitution
citizenship & nationality
citizenship
Reclaiming the Enlightenment
Interpreting the Enlightenment
economics & institutions
Keating's Redfern Speech
truth in politics
thin skins
Gaita: truthfulness in politics#3
Gaita: truthfulness in politics#2
Raymond Gaita: truth in politics#1
community activism
defending community
communitarianism & politics
Communitarianism & place
the roots of democracy
communitarianism
discounting democracy
community?
the decline of democratic public life
Goodby democracy?
Schmitt: Legality and Legitimacy
a shock
the love of power
marriage is for some
Downsizing democracy: the FTA
decline of citizenship?
Greer: Whitefella jump up
Greer: whitefella anxiety in Australia
Empire: multitude & prophets
Empire: asking questions
Empire: the political
Empire: Summary
Empire: double-headed eagle#2
Empire: the two headed eagle
separation of powers
Reading Strauss in the light of Peter Costello's Christian ethics
Leo Strauss#3
Leo Strauss#2
Empire: serpentine struggles
Empire: Marx's old mole
creating public spaces
more of the same
Folly of empire
Empire: the multitude
Empire: nation state & democracy
Empire: internationalism
Empire: bringing philosophy in
Empire: literary criticism
Empire: the owl of Minerva
Empire: drama and narrative
Empire: tragic narrarives
Empire & the underside of modernity
Empire & regional integration
Empire: Free trade
Empire & place
Empire & ecological place
Empire: localism & deliberative democracy
Empire & progress
Empire: alternatives
Empire: misinterpretrations
Empire: A Review
Fear's Empire
Empire & the dollar standard
American conservatism
Empire: sovereignty
Empire: Intervention
Empire: room to move?
conservatism
Empire: Global civil society
Empire: media & legitimacy
Empire: communications
Empire: corporations
Empire: Corporations
Empire: biopolitical production
Empire: Deleuze & desire
Empire: modernity and biopolitics
Empire: Biopower
Empire: having some problems
Empire: paradox of power
Empire: from Marx to Deleuze
Empire: Foucault, disciplinary society & biopower
Empire: Hegel, public authority & civil society
Empire: Ch1.#11- Universal Values
anwering questions
Empire: Ch.1#10
police action+universal values
Empire: Chapter1#9
Empire: Ch1#8
Empire: Ch.1#7
Empire: Ch1.#6
Deleuze: machines
Empire: Ch1#5
Hegel, Hardt & Negri
Empire: A genealogy of right
a destitute time
"radical chic" Deleuzians?
Rorty: Terror and freedom
Empire: Ch.1#3
Empire: theory + world power
Empire: Chapter 1
Negri
Revisioning Australia
Empire: Preface#3
Empire:Preface#2
Hardt & Negri's Empire: Preface
Bridges over the Continental Analytic Divide
Analytic-Continental divide
divided schools
then and now
the politics of abortion
Liberal closure
political fluff
Politics: fear and myth
lobbyists & public reason
Political conflict
Multilateralism
Listening
a question
Moral duties to other states
American hegemony
Political reason & emotion
unreason of political reason
the media prism
Myth and market forces
Hubris
one truth
Destruction in an enlightened age
Schmitt: Why the turn to Roman Catholicism?
Schmitt's turn to Catholicism
Schmitt: abstract reason v romantic sensibility
it used to be different once
Carl Schmitt's Hegelian move
Weber's call to a politics of responsibility
Schmitt & Weber
Returning to Carl Schmitt
cliches
public language & public realm
doing their job
Globalism and globalization
Globalization#6: the nation-state reappears
the veil of political language
Democracy and Language
death of political language#4
Globalization#5: the turn away
crucifying the economy
Gloablization#4
the main game
Globalization#3: Form and content
public language#4
Globalization#2
the decay of globalisation
Public language#3
Philosophy in public life
Don Watson: Death Sentence
public language#2
public language
bodies in the forum
lived being
Merleau-Ponty
towards bodily empowerment.
bodily existence
starting over again
lived bodies
philosophy conference
bodies and places
clearing away place
land ethic
Mars: raw images
Universities: hot debate
Re-thinking wilderness
conflicts over wilderness
Montaigne
Social Darwinism in Australia
Xmas day
Third Way = pragmatism?
The enabling state
philosophy, wedge politics, environment
Third Way & Indigneous Australians#2
The Third Way & Indigenous people
The Third Way: its civil society stupid
a story with a moral
governing unemployment
addressing unemployment
A definition of the political
welfare-to-work strategy
citizenship & welfare-to-work
a note on the Third Way
anti-globalization
Cartoons & rhetoric
Globalization & local communities
Globalization and social democracy
In defence of the Senate
governing the global economy
the borderless world of globalised finance
in passing & taking note
resisting the Stoics on anger
the future is global
Restraining anger?
a question
its so lonely and inhuman
Atomised
the heavenly city of cyberspace
It's crude but...
Resignation
Stoic governance of anger
judicial activism=end of democracy?
Seneca on anger
anger
free market + democratic deliberation
philosophy in Australia
Citizenship: there and gone
tight judicial logic?
Democracy & the High Court of Australia
Politics and the High Court
Citizenship: a belated appearance
nihilism approaches?
Australian Constitution & citizenship
Edward Said: due consideration
Meditations#2
becoming one people
Constitutional interpretation & power
Constitutional Silence?
Meditations
Hermeneutics, free speech & democracy#2
Hermeneutics, free speech & democracy#1
mapping hermeneutics
towards a post
Gadamer, conversation, public reason
an experiment
doing philosophy differently?
in passing
Hegel, recognition, Croc Festivals
philosophy and rhetoric
bioethics: philosophy meets the marketplace
a trail of blood
private/public
blogging and democracy
a libertarian tale of confusions
reason and emotion in history
writing outside academia
Today's little story
the light hand
I couldn't resist
that rough beast of futurity
Beyond economics: character & citizenship
a moral hole
its the same old song
a certain intelletual oomph
limiting democratic politics
reaching out beyond academe
a quote from Burke
political correctness
work blogs
Ecological gaps
the future of the humanities
Costello: The IMF man?
raising a question
No modernist seriousness here
the nihilism of academe
what sort of changes?
river keepers challenge growth fetish
Humanities: a double bind
the heart of the nation
one for the money
prejudice
tweaking the axioms
Philosophy & the neocons
bloggers as active citizens
being sceptical about economics
bloggers as the new public intellectuals
after economic rationalism
breaking the I/P mirror
philosophy in political life
Weblogs: just a little stall in the market?
beyond market rationality
He who is sovereign
bias as pre-judgement
a critic of liberal modernity
scoring points' is routine practice
writing history
Derrida: anything goes?
Are the universities an instrument?
Philosophy & dogs
the disappearing public university
media, democracy, philosophy
academics and blogging
education for citizenship
philosophy as a way of life
behind the razzle dazzle
a life for PhD's outside academia
Derrida made relevant
American nationalism
The return of assimilation
Take no prisoners?
naive utilitarians
beyond dead white men
Question Mark
Maggie baby
critique as irritation
philosophical humor
whither the humanities?
the academic philosophy/theory distinction
Academia: it is a miserable place
lead ballons
a bit of this way and that
a few reflections on a holiday
On holidays
Poisoning Ourselves
New pathways
A challenge to Libertarians
sorting things out
the road to poverty
going post-national
Nationalism
The media dogs of war
Wogblog and Counter-Enlightenment
Tragedy
eye of the eagle
Patriotism
learning to speak publicly.
The more things change
Iraq, War and Hegel's revenge
Hegel vs the neocons
Academic breakdown
Complex stuff
The new is the old
Weblogs, Watchdogs, Democracy
A dead heart?
A quote
Academia Sucks?
Thinking against the market
a puzzle
Academia & State: the Great Divide
Post analytic philosophy
Rhetoric mets the Web
Roots of philosophy.com
The ship of state and the storms of nature
Writing Philosophy
Philosophical journalism
Having fun with Philosophers
Empire
The essay
Foucault on Kant & Enlightenment
Water and Enlightenment dreaming
Populism and the common life
Do you still believe?
Writing of Oz History: Rhetoric, Dialogue, Tradition
More on Australian Conservatism
Australian Conservatism?
The storm we call progress.
Just a note
Freedom and Terror
In the politicians we trust?
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