It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson
Tag Archives: technology
My University
Rod Beecham on The reductio ad absurdum of Commonwealth education policy
Unstable Politics
John Hinkson examines the sources of today’s unstable politics.
Climate Change is Not the Basic Issue
GEOFF SHARP argues that the technoscience–capitalism convergence has supercharged climate change. We need a movement to tackle that.
Instruments of Idolatry
STEPHEN AMES asks what responses to contemporary cultural contradictions are viable today and seeks answers in the Christian traditions.
The Reality of TV
Television isn’t to blame for every social ill but neither is it neutral, write Melinda Hinkson.
Imagining the Post-Human
Simon Cooper Recent books by Kazuo Ishiguro and Michel Houellebecq offer guides of sorts to the post-human.
Downloading the Siren’s Song
Simon Cooper The tecnological management of otherness


