Editorial: Yes to a Voice to Parliament
The editors of Thesis Eleven would like to express their support for the Voice Amendment to the Australian Constitution that is proposed in the upcoming national referendum.
Book Review: Jeffrey Alexander and Cultural Sociology
Jean-Francois Cote, Jeffrey Alexander and Cultural Sociology (Polity, 2023)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Book Review: Making Sense of AI and Algorithmic Intimacy
Anthony Elliott, Making Sense of AI: Our Algorithmic World (Polity Press, 2022)
Anthony Elliott, Algorithmic Intimacy: The Digital Revolution in Personal Relationships (Polity Press, 2023)
Reviewed by Dariusz Brzeziński
Issue 177, August 2023 – Reflections on the Pandemic
This special issue revisits the Thesis Eleven online project: Living and Thinking Crisis. The original project published close to fifty contributions; a multimedia presentation that included postcards, words, poems and music responding to the pandemic in the real-time of its making. This issue of the journal brings a selection of these to publication and reflects on this moment of global upheaval and transformation.
About time: Celebrating in hindsight my father’s (Zygmunt Bauman) affair with photography
This speech was delivered by Anna Sfard at the book launch of The Photographs of Zygmunt Bauman, hosted by Portico Library, 15 July 2023. The Photographs of Zygmunt Bauman was edited by Peter Beilharz and Janet Wolff and published by Manchester University Press.
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
Article: Beautiful Detritus
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.
Book Review: Double Nation
Ian McLean, Double Nation: A History of Australian Art (Reaktion, 2023)
Reviewed by Darren Jorgensen
Homage to Touraine
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
Book Review: Capitalism Versus Democracy
Boris Frankel, Capitalism Versus Democracy: Rethinking Politics in the Age of Environmental Crisis (Greenmeadows, 2020)
Reviewed by Eric Ferris (Eastern Michigan University)
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