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What Hope for Years to Come?

October 2, 2001 – 7:53 pm

Geoff Sharp: In the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States, the tension between religious piety and imperial power reveals the urgent need for re-examination of the new social forms

Posted in features | Also tagged 9/11, civilisation, colonialism, community, conscience, consumption, democracy, elites, gender, Geoff Sharp, George W Bush, globalisation, government, high tech, humanism, individualism, inequality, international markets, market, market fundamentalism, materialism, modernity, mortality, oppression, peace movement, reconciliation, religion, self-gratification, state terrorism, technology, technosciences, terrorism, United Nations (UN), United States, war, World Trade Centre (WTC) | Comments Off

Habeas Corpus

October 2, 2001 – 7:51 pm

Angela Mitropoulos: Citizens are commodities, dialogue is dead and civilisation is barbaric in the new global order. Against capital and state, open borders represent hope.

Posted in features | Also tagged activism, Angela Mitropoulos, anti-globalisation, Bhuta, border policing, citizenship, civil society, civilisation, colonisation, commodification, corporatism, Costello, G8, global protest movement, globalisation, hierarchy, J18, lobbyists, Maksimovic, migration policy, Patrick Buchanan, protesters, public relations (PR), Ralph Nader, rule of law, S11, second world, sovereignty, state, state violence, sweatshops, Third World, Third World debt, wage labour, World Economic Forum (WEF) | Comments (1)

Up Close and Abstract

June 2, 2000 – 4:43 pm

Michele Willson Image and Presence Vie in Online Offerings

Posted in editorial | Also tagged advertising, authenticity, commerce, computer viruses, consumerism, credit cards, e-commerce, economics, images, information, media, Michele Willson, print media, radio, simulation, stock exchange, technology, television, virtuality | Comments Off

Towards Global Diversity

April 2, 2000 – 4:32 pm

The combination of high technology and the market has produced new kind of economy and culture, writes John Hinkson

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Adam Smith, Anthony Giddens, culture, Davos, economy, European Union, Gerard Henderson, global culture, global economy, global protest movement, globalisation, history, industrial revolution, Jeff Kennett, John Hinkson, Karl Marx, market, media, modernity, One Nation, reciprocal exchange, social policy, socialism, socialist utopia, technology, the third way, Tony Blair, United States, World Economic Forum (WEF), World Trade Organization (WTO) | Comments (1)

Shock Fetish Shoes, Sex and Shock

April 2, 2000 – 4:30 pm

Michele Willson asks how far can shock advertising go before we become unshockable.

Posted in against the current | Also tagged advertising, commodification, consumers, cynicism, desenstisation, images, media, Michele Willson, objectification, sex, sexism, sexual imagery, spectacle society, voyeurism, women | Comments Off

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