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		<title>Translated literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Scarcity, or the prospect of scarcity, creates value (no-one was rhapsodising about the tactile pleasures of printed books fifty years ago), and as English spreads from one horizon to the other like a swarm of locusts, gobbling up minor languages in a few generations, we have begun to recognise that our linguistic ecosystem is a precious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Reynolds on the Continental-Analytical divide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I listened to an episode in the La Trobe Philosophy podcast with interest: Dr Jack Reynolds was talking about the divide between Analytical and Continental philosophers. It was fascinating, but I wondered why Alain Badiou&#8217;s name did not come up, since he frames Being and Event with a discussion of the divide, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christianity: the original ‘Western Buddhism’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning, a counter-cultural phenomenon, alien and insidious, begins to spread from the East (like a weed, as Morton puts it), considered thoroughly disreputable by respectable citizens: ‘a most mischievous superstition &#8230; again broke out not only in Judea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gillard&#8217;s priorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;As the demands of capital and the relentless ideology of corporate media hem in the scope of democratically elected politicians to differ substantially from each other, personality and identity become the surrogates for real political debate. Celebrating Australia’s first woman prime minister is fine, but let’s not delude ourselves about how much difference it makes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our synthetic future</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 01:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Synthetic Genomics’ dramatic achievement, ‘playing God’ was the predictable cry in the media. The verb is misleading. It implies that whereas God works, Venter and his colleagues are merely playing; a blasphemous mockery, the trifling mimicry of a monkey, carrying out the form of creation while missing its content of the original – the ineffable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save Middlesex Philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 00:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that Philosophy is the highest-rated subject at Middlesex, and one of the strongest in the country, management have decided to shut the department down, without even the pretense of an appeal to any objective standards. This is a clear and unambiguous example of the profit motive&#8217;s destructive effect on academic excellence; an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking democracy, more fundamentally</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The consumer-choice model of democracy tends to encourage the same behaviour from political parties as from corporations: marketing, branding, advertising and other forms of mendacity, which in turn generate cynicism and a distaste for the political system – a deserved distaste. Honesty and principle are punished; the scum rise to the top. The expenses scandal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope, change and Predator drones</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of us, disillusioned by other charismatic and supposedly transformational leaders (Tony Blair, in my case) or philosophically predisposed to see the changing of the guard at the top of the capitalo-parliamentarian state apparatus as a charade, did not expect much. But to the starving, a crust is a feast, and after eight years of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the fifth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all remember the end of last year for the dismal outcome, at Copenhagen, for concerted international action to deal with the world’s problems. Just a few weeks before, however, another meeting took place. In November last year, the International Encounter of Left Parties met in Caracas. At that meeting, Hugo Chávez, in typically theatrical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lévi-Strauss RIP</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The father of structuralism, Claude Lévi-Strauss, has died a few weeks before reaching his 101st birthday. From his obituary: Dans une époque pressée, confuse, massivement portée à la veulerie et au simplisme, l&#8217;homme passait fréquemment pour distant. Tous ceux qui eurent la chance de l&#8217;approcher peu ou prou savent combien cet esprit universel, profondément attaché à [...]]]></description>
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