Issue 176, June 2023 – Archipelago of forms
Contributors: Virgilio Rivas, Jon Stratton, Chris Barker, Amos Netzer, Peter Beilharz, Stuart Macintyre, Keith Tribe, Andrew Feenberg, Ian H. Angus, Joshua M Makalintal, John Lechte and Dániel Havrancsik
Contributors: Virgilio Rivas, Jon Stratton, Chris Barker, Amos Netzer, Peter Beilharz, Stuart Macintyre, Keith Tribe, Andrew Feenberg, Ian H. Angus, Joshua M Makalintal, John Lechte and Dániel Havrancsik
by Georgia Lockie
Once abundant and collective, utopian dreams had, by the turn of the millennium, largely receded from the social world, leaving a void to be increasingly filled by new dystopias—climate destabilisation; resurgent right-wing authoritarianism; technological domination; plague—the future becoming a prospect less of collective hope or aspiration than dread.
Ian McLean, Double Nation: A History of Australian Art (Reaktion, 2023)
Reviewed by Darren Jorgensen
by Francois Dubet and Michel Wieviorka
Alain Touraine died in Paris 9 June 2023. Thesis Eleven is proud to honour his memory with this homage co-authored by Francois Dubet and Michel Wieviorka. The essay was originally published in La Vie des idées and translated into English for Thesis Eleven by David Roberts
Boris Frankel, Capitalism Versus Democracy: Rethinking Politics in the Age of Environmental Crisis (Greenmeadows, 2020)
Reviewed by Eric Ferris (Eastern Michigan University)
Contributors: Peter Lenco, Raffaela Puggioni, Mark T. Hewson, Will Atkinson, Bregham Dalgliesh, Kateřina Nedbálková and Wojciech Zomerski
Philipp Felsch, The Summer of Theory (Polity, 2022)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz (Sichuan University)
Philipp Felsch, The Summer of Theory (Polity, 2022)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz (Sichuan University)
Bernard Lahire (trans. Helen Morrison), The Sociological Interpretation of Dreams (Wiley, 2020)
Reviewed by John Lechte (Macquarie University)
by Alison Young
With the news of Ross Gibson’s death on Thursday March 2nd 2023, some of the light has gone out of our ‘starburst world’ (2012).