I used to think I had the privilege of being at arm’s length from the politics of disability. I strongly supported anti-racist politics, but being “able-bodied” and without caring responsibilities, the disability studies and the disability rights movement was not a...
Linda Martín Alcoff, 2018. Rape and Resistance: Understanding the Complexities of Sexual Violation. Cambridge, Polity Press. Available Online: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Rape+and+Resistance-p-9780745691916 In 1977, Foucault made the controversial proposition that...
Julianne Schultz and Brendan Gleeson (eds), 2016. Griffith Review 52: Imagining the Future, Text Publishing, Melbourne. Available online: https://griffithreview.com/editions/imagining-the-future/ Every day, we shape our tomorrows by discussing the future. To shape a...
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: reflections on the end of a civilization. By Roy Scranton. Published 2015 by City Lights Books, 142 pages. In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton sets out from a concept that will be familiar to those concerned about...
The red leaf on the left is covered with iron ore dust, the leaf on the right has been cleaned. When plants are covered with dust they can no longer photosythesise, meaning they slowly die, taking with them the culture and societies that depend on them. Photo by Sean...
“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...
The Pinstriped Prison: How Overachievers Get Trapped in Corporate Jobs They Hate. By Lisa Pryor. Published 2008 by Picador Pan MacMillan Australia Pty Limited, 1 Market Street Sydney, 272pp. In the 1950s and 60s, top students from elite universities aspired to careers...
Czeslaw Milosz introduced the Western world to ketman, or the practice of concealing ones true motives or beliefs to give the outward appearance of conforming to authority. A Polish poet, novelist and diplomat who survived Nazi, and later Soviet occupied, Poland...
In a recently published book, Signs and Machines: Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity, the Sociologist Maurizzio Lazzarato considers the question of what genuine creativity and innovation would look like in late capitalist societies. When creativity and...
