Nudge-winking or How not to protest an obvious injustice
On Monday afternoon I signed Overland editor Jeff Sparrow’s open letter regarding Wikileaks founder Julian Assange I suppose I should be pleased (but not, obviously, surprised) by the fact that over the last two nights almost everyone in my Twitter feed (and the articles, blogs et cetera referenced by these people) seems to share my … Read more
A modest proposal to declare Brian Leiter and Michael Rosen philosopher Kings
Today, dearest and fairest, I have something a little different for you. Today’s post is largely a transcript of a fan letter that I’ve just written with the intention of showing my inveterate admiration for Brian Leiter and Michael Rosen. If you have the misfortune not to know who these gentlemen are, I am here … Read more
Fear and Loathing in the Academic Agora
Musings from my recent conference experience at the University of New South Wales. Contains some discussion of me [passim!] my attitudes to the ‘analytic continental divide’, the reading of Platonic dialogues, the similarities between Socrates and Christ, censorious-finger waggings at certain bad trends in ‘conservative’ philosophy, odd responses to “Decline of the West” style scenarios and other fun fruit flavours…
The Australian Middle Class Saves the World.
Last week, just as I was about to once again disregard all semblance of good taste and parade my latest musings in public, my friend Cameron Shingelton ruined everything by writing a review of Catherine Deveny’s new comedy show “God is bullshit” on his stylishly written and assiduously updated blog. The result: chaos, as the … Read more
Maladjusted Reviews: Biographies, Biopics and Jane Campion’s latest film
As promised, this is the new video with which I’d like to launch “Pretty Cool (for an iconodule). Is it representative of what is to follow? Hopefully not. This one was a real bastard to do (worse than Greek participles). I hope that maybe some of you like…some of it. I know that it’s too … Read more
