Goodbye, Claus Offe 1940-2025
by Peter Beilharz
Claus Offe was a fine scholar, a sharp thinker, and a good person. An extraordinary colleague, and a fascinating example of the marginal Frankfurt thinker.
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: 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)
Issue 167, December 2021: Five democratic alternatives to representative democracy
Guest editors: Bo Kaspersen and Liv Egholm
Contributors: Veit Bader, Grahame Thompson, Christiane Mossin, Andreas Møller Mulvad, Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen, Lara Monticelli,
Reviews: Chamsy el-Ojeili, Peter Murphy, Marcus Maloney
New Book: Global Economic Crisis as Social Hieroglyphic
Global Economic Crisis as Social Hieroglyphic examines the 2008 global economic crisis as a complex social phenomenonor “social hieroglyphic”, arguing that the crisis is not fundamentally economic, despite presenting itself as such.
What Is a Crisis?
by Phumlani Pikoli (Johannesburg)
Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world has been in a state of panic, fearing the unprecedented times we face. The idea that the pandemic has induced some pre-pubescent existential crisis is laughable, however.
As the world has been forced to sit and reckon with its own systemic failures and global structures of existence the real crisis is, ‘what does it mean to be a human supporting the failed system of global capitalism’? After all, is democracy not a rich person’s game?
Videos: 2018 Castoriadis in the Antipodes Symposium
These videos record several papers and the keynote lecture from the 2018 Castoriadis in the Antipodes Symposium. Continuing the tradition into its 11th year, the event celebrated and examined the intellectual contribution of Cornelius Castoriadis. Speakers include Craig Browne (Sydney University), Peter Murphy (La Trobe University), Sean McMorrow (Monash University) and Vrasidas Karalis (University of Sydney. This event was presented by Thesis Eleven Forum for Social and Political Theory and held at the Melbourne Greek Cultural Centre, December 2018.
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