Article: Postcard from Serbia

by Alonso Casanueva Baptista

Awareness of the shifting landscape began on the second day of the conference. During the afternoon presentations, I heard the quick flight of fighter jets. Immediately, I got curious, but people around me seemed set on paying full mind to the research of their fellows. Outside the Faculty of Philosophy—the headquarters for the student protest movement—people walked languid, placidly up and down the streets of the city centre.

Thesis Eleven Annual Lecture – Relational sociology in action! How can Zelizer solve the climate crisis and what does that mean?

Thursday November 27, 2025
6:00-8:00pm, The Greek Centre, Melbourne.

You are warmly invited to the 2025 Thesis Eleven Annual Lecture. This year Professor Mark Davis (University of Leeds) joins us to discuss the essential role of sociology in responding to contemporary challenges during periods of crisis and transformation. This event is hosted by Thesis Eleven Journal and sponsored by the Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture.

Issue 189, August 2025 – Annihilation Aesthetics: The Disappearances of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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.