by Lloyd Cox
The 2025 Australian federal election will be remembered for both the scale of Labor’s victory and the implosion of the Liberal and National Party Coalition whose leader, Peter Dutton, lost his own seat. Together, they almost guarantee Labor at least another six years in power, while raising serious doubt about the long-term viability of an aging Liberal Party now at war with itself.
Annihilation Aesthetics: On the Disappearances of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This special issue of Thesis Eleven will be published in August 2025. Below includes a introduction to the volume accompanied by an artist’s statement by Chantal Meza whose artworks works will be featured in the issue.
by Siniša Malešević
War is not an exception that suddenly interrupts normal social life. Nearly every aspect of social life including the governance structures, social hierarchies, gender and sexual relations, religious identities, class dynamics, ethno-racial stratification, educational practices, heath systems or the administrativeand administrative apparatuses have all been molded by legacies of specific wars. Whether we like it or not, warfare has historically been and remains a norm that constantly shapes our social order.
This special edition of Thesis Eleven focuses on the thought of British philosopher and critical theorist Gillian Rose. With contributions focusing on Rose’s political thought, her literary and aesthetic philosophy, and her engagement with Hegel, this edition hopes to further establish Rose’s work as part of the canon of late 20th century philosophy. Additionally, this issue also contains an interview with New School critical theorist Jay Bernstein, who was close friends with Rose, as well her previously unpublished lecture, “Does Marx Have a Method?”
by Howard Prosser
This interview with Martin Jay took place in January 2025. The conversation focuses on the conceptual elements of his book Magical Nominalism: The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reenchantment, and the Photograph (2025). The discussion traces the place of nominalism within philosophy and in connection to Critical Theory, history, and art.
Zygmunt Bauman, Theory and Society (Polity, 2024).
Edited by Tom Campbell, Dariusz Brzezinski, Mark Davis and Jack Palmer, with translations by Katarzyna Bartoszynska
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Despite strong criticism, functional reasoning is still present in social theory and research. However, references often remain hidden. As a consequence, potentials cannot unfold, nor shortcomings be reflected. Starting from this consideration, our special issue aims to reconsider the potentials and shortcomings of functional lines of thinking in current sociology.
Contributors: Alain Caillé, José Fernando Andrade Costa, Jorge Sola, Christine Magerski, Rafael Alvear, Céline Charlotte Casmir, Sean Braune, Chris Rojek, Jake Sokolofsky, Bernardo Paci, Gavin Rae, Mikkel Thorup, Alexander Kruglov and John Lechte
Scholarly and popular attention to the concept of care has re-entered the zeitgeist. While the concept has a longstanding history, some recent developments have given greater urgency to employment of the term.
Philipp Felsch, How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold: Tale of a Redemption (Polity Press, 2024)
Reviewed by John Lechte
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