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Power intellectuals in the Howard era: Guy Rundle examines the role of a powerful group of commentators who have sought to reconstruct Australian political culture. Will this election mark the end of their era, or its ultimate triumph?
Australian intellectual life changed when Murdoch--Rupe or Lachlan (remember Lachlan?)-- sacked Paul Kelly as editor of the eponymous national...
Arena Magazine, 10/01/07 by Guy Rundle · More from publication -
Goodbye to all that: the end of Australian left-liberalism and the revival of a radical politics
Maybe it was Jindabyne that did it. Ray Lawrence's beautifully shot, stylishly directed film hit London as the opening presentation of the London...
Arena Magazine, 04/01/07 by Guy Rundle · More from publication -
The limits of modernity: with environmental catastrophe threatening to undermine the very conditions of existence, Guy Rundle looks at the need for reassessment of the basic presuppositions of modernity
Late medieval timepieces are designed so as to hold a measure of the hour, within a measure of the month and year, mechanical sun and moon sweeping...
Arena Magazine, 12/01/06 by Guy Rundle · More from publication -
The cultural contradictions of: Christian fundamentalism: in the second part of his essay, Guy Rundle continues to make links between Christian fundamentalism and hyper-modernity
For many years, the more extreme forms of fundamentalism found their most receptive audiences among individuals and groups damaged or marginalised...
Arena Magazine, 08/01/06 by Guy Rundle · More from publication -
Darfur: a slow genocide
By the time this piece has gone from processor to page, the Darfur peace deal--signed last week in Abuja--may well have fallen apart. If not, it is...
Arena Magazine, 06/01/06 by Guy Rundle · More from publication -
The Manifesto club
Spring is in the air--at least in the northern hemisphere--and so thought naturally turns to the writing of political manifestos. Over at Spiked...
Arena Magazine, 06/01/06 by Guy Rundle · More from publication -
The revolution will not be uploaded
Andy Warhol's prediction of fifteen minutes of fame for all is steadily counting down to being literally rather than proverbially true, with the...
Arena Magazine, 06/01/06 by Guy Rundle · More from publication -
The Da Vinci lode
Perhaps it was inevitable that the film version of The Da Vinci Code would fail to pack the punch of the five-hundred-page book on which it is...
Arena Magazine, 06/01/06 by Guy Rundle · More from publication -
The cultural contradictions of Christian fundamentalism: many have been caught unawares by the re-assertion of Christian fundamentalism. Guy Rundle looks at the rise of a religious form uniquely suited to contemporary cultural mores
Writing in the months before he was executed by the Nazis for his part in the plot to kill Hitler, the priest and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer...
Arena Magazine, 06/01/06 by Guy Rundle · More from publication -
Civilisational chauvinism: with talk of a 'long war', the US has committed itself to a high-intensity, asymmetrical war against civilian populations
Historians of the future--who may well be writing their chronicles by candlelight--may come to record that the Third World War began last month,...
Arena Magazine, 04/01/06 by Guy Rundle · More from publication
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