Book Review: Adorno meets the Algorithm
Jurgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics (Polity, 2023)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Book Review: UnAustralian Art
Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson, UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History (Power, 2022)
Reviewed by Darren Jorgensen
Book Review: Inventing Marxism – More, Please
Christina Morina, The Invention of Marxism – How An Idea Changed Everything (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Issue 180, February 2024 – Aesthetics enlightened
Contributors: David Roberts, Rob Shields and Nicholas Hardy, Thembisa Waetjen, Johan Trovik, Eduardo Enríquez Arévalo, Lorenzo Veracini and Dan Tout, Loïc Wacquant and Dieter Vandebroeck, Jonathan Fardy, Zeger Polhuijs, and Peter J Verovšek
Book Review: Cannibal Capitalism
Nancy Fraser, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do about It (Verso, 2022)
Reviewed by Christopher G. Robbins
Book Review: The Photographs of Zygmunt Bauman
The Photographs of Zygmunt Bauman, edited by Peter Beilharz and Janet Wolff (Manchester University Press, 2023)
Reviewed by Eric Ferris
Book Review – Zygmunt Bauman: Messages in Bottles
Zygmunt Bauman, My Life in Fragments, edited by Izabela Wagner (Polity, 2023);
Zygmunt Bauman, History and Politics, edited by Mark Davis, Jack Palmer, Dariusz Brzezinski and Tom Campbell (Polity 2023).
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Exceptionalism and Provincialism: Re-Thinking the Antipodes
by David Roberts
Peter Beilharz captures this ongoing process of exchange, fed by the flow of people, goods, capital and ideas between the old and the new worlds, between metropolitan centre and open frontier in terms of cultural traffic. Cultural traffic in turn can be understood both in the direct and wider sense as translation. As the act of relocation, transformation and recreation, translation epitomizes the idea of supplementarity and in turn the question of identity. In the following, I shall be thinking with and against Peter’s thinking of the Antipodes with the idea of translation in mind.
Reflecting on Peter the Teacher
by Julian Potter
Thirty years separate Peter and Zygmunt, another thirty separate myself and Peter. These are generational spans, time enough for considerable changes that challenge traditions. Through my story, I would like to suggest that the refounding of intellectual traditions on friendship, instead of, and sometimes in spite of institutions, or enframed goals such as politics, is one of Peter’s gifts to his postmodern students and those who have met him along the way. Another is the vital question for scholarly endeavour: ‘Is it interesting?’ And for me, the love of books.
“Peter’s House of Theory” – A Postcard to Peter
by Margaret Somers
I fell in love with Peter the first time I met him, at an American Sociological Meeting, sometime in the late 1980s, I think. This was, of course, love Beilharzian-style – not the amorous variety but an intimacy of shared political intellectual practice. The ASA was a fitting place to meet as it was one of Peter’s most fertile sites for his Beilharzian love assignations.
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