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Scholars and Entrepreneurs provides a bold examination of basic debates, and a critical assessment of contemporary developments. This book breaks new ground in insisting that the crisis in universities, rather than being simply a question of institutional change, must be considered as a symptom of our age.
Add to cartThe lucky 13th issue of of Arena Quarterly: ‘Set it on fire with your love?’. This issue features a special section on nuclear power and its political resurgence as ‘the only way forward’ in a climate collapsing world. John Hinkson explores the deep structures of life and culture in the nuclear age, shattering any confidence […]
Add to cartChanging the Climate explores nature and environment, power and society, narrative and image in meditations on ecology, ecocriticism, science and speculative fiction, film and contemporary art. With a chapter by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Add to cartImagining the Future bridges theory, politics and literature. Inspired by Frederic Jameson’s Archaeologies of the Future, it is a fascinatingly diverse response to his proposition that ‘Utopia… now better expresses our relationship to a genuinely political future than any current program of action’ and that Utopia demands a ‘meditation on the impossible’.
Add to cartDemanding the Impossible has a distinctly Australian focus in contributions on nineteenth and twentieth century Australian utopianism, as well as chapters on environmental crisis and ethics, Christian socialism, science fiction and the work of Cormac McCarthy and China Mielville
Add to cartThe embattled concept of ‘the Arab’ urgently requires investigation, analysis and rethinking. In this book the theme of the historical meaning of Arab identity is pursued in the hope of making a modest contribution towards strengthening viable, non-sectarian and democratic alternatives to Islamist fundamentalism in the Arab world.
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