Introducing ‘Impact’: A Journal from our Friends and Colleagues at Eastern Michigan University
The current issue Volume 3, Number 1 (2025) of Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry in Education is the product of Thesis Eleven editors Peter Beilharz and Sian Supski’s visit to Eastern Michigan University in 2024.
Join union leaders and historian Sean Scalmer in discussion of his new book, A Fair Day’s Work: The Quest to Win Back Time (Melbourne University Press).
Time and Place:
6pm, Tuesday 16 September, Solidarity Hall, Victorian Trades Hall, 54 Victoria St, Carlton.
This special issue looks at the importance of imaginaries of total destruction – what we are electing to call annihilation aesthetics. The volume considers the historical present of technologically enabled violence, dealing in the process with concerns about mass terror and mediatisation, the logics of technological violence from the nuclear to the artificial age and the importance of culture in developing a viable critique.
Michael Lazarus, Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx, Stanford University Press, 2025
Absolute Ethical Life will be launched in both Sydney (on August 12) and in Melbourne (August 19).
When Words Fail Us: Reclaiming a Language of Love
The 2025 Simone Weil Lecture will be delivered by Professor Stan Grant. This event is hosted by the ACU School of Philosophy
Within American cultural sociology, Jeffrey Alexander’s strong program has emerged as the strongest attractor in the field. Having made a name as a social theorist before moving into cultural sociology, Alexander has been able to deploy his own approach both as a general sociology of culture in the neo-Durkheimian tradition, and as a sociological theory of the middle range that can be applied over and over again in case studies that show how codes, meanings and performances bring society together, or drive it apart.
The editors of Thesis Eleven would like to express their support for Faculty of Arts staff at Macquarie University affected by proposed job cuts. As a journal of critical theory and historical sociology, we particularly extend our support to staff in sociology, politics, history, and gender studies disciplines.
Peter Murphy, Stranger Cities. Australian Creation and the Ambidextrous Mind, A Profile of Portal Modernity (Brill, 2023)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Anthony Elliott, Algorithms of Anxiety: Fear in the Digital Age (Polity Press, 2024)
Reviewed by James Smithies
Critical Theory: Chengdu Review, Volume One, Edited by Fu Qilin (Sichuan University Press, 2024)
Reviewed by Li Jing
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