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
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Tag Archives: technology
My University
July 2, 2010 – 8:47 pm
Rod Beecham on The reductio ad absurdum of Commonwealth education policy
Unstable Politics
March 2, 2010 – 3:37 pm
John Hinkson examines the sources of today’s unstable politics.
Climate Change is Not the Basic Issue
February 2, 2008 – 1:06 pm
GEOFF SHARP argues that the technoscience–capitalism convergence has supercharged climate change. We need a movement to tackle that.
Instruments of Idolatry
December 2, 2007 – 1:02 pm
STEPHEN AMES asks what responses to contemporary cultural contradictions are viable today and seeks answers in the Christian traditions.
The Reality of TV
June 2, 2006 – 9:08 am
Television isn’t to blame for every social ill but neither is it neutral, write Melinda Hinkson.
Imagining the Post-Human
February 2, 2006 – 8:39 am
Simon Cooper Recent books by Kazuo Ishiguro and Michel Houellebecq offer guides of sorts to the post-human.
Downloading the Siren’s Song
April 2, 2005 – 6:38 pm
Simon Cooper The tecnological management of otherness
