Louis Kleé
Louis Kleé is a co-founder of Demos Journal and a graduate of the ANU. In 2017, he co-won the Australian Book Review’s Peter Porter Prize. His work has recently appeared in The Best Australian Poems 2017.
“My Real University Education”: An Interview with Rick Kuhn
Rick Kuhn is an Honorary Associate Professor in Sociology at the ANU. Since his first appointment at ANU in 1987, he has researched and taught in political economy, the history of the labour movement, race and racism in Australia, and Marxist economic theory. His book...
Voices from the Grassroots
It has recently been an active time around the Australian National University, with voices pooled to fight for shared interests. We are fighting significant cuts to the School of Culture, History, and Language, vast changes that will impact life at the Bruce and...
Grassroots Activism and Democracy: Judith Butler’s Notes on a Sensate Democracy
“To demand justice […] involves every activist in a philosophical problem” – Judith Butler[1] Judith Butler, the American philosopher and gender theorist, has long intimated a democratic theory; or, as she has sometimes called it, a theory of “a sensate...
Articulating Silence
In aspiring to publish those voices that are marginalised, misrepresented and ignored by mainstream publishing, it was inevitable that we would come to muse on the meaning of silence. Silence is commonplace in political rhetoric and yet it is seldom critically...
Creating Demos
To introduce the exciting diversity of voices that make up the first edition of Demos Journal, we embark upon a reflection on the relation between democracy and creativity itself. Demos Journal set out to create something new: a community committed to deconstructing...Past Issues
