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The problem lies elsewhere: tales of repression in recent fiction.	Critical essay	Feb 1, 2008	1453
'I am nobody': contemporary subjectivity and new surveillance technologies.	Critical essay	Dec 1, 2007	1345
At the limits of creative culture.		Oct 1, 2007	1484
From scholars to entrepreneurs: Simon Cooper discusses academic Darwinism in the age of audit culture.	Essay	Aug 1, 2007	2559
The horror of assimilation: zombies and bio-capitalism.		Jun 1, 2007	1620
Remembering Baudrillard: forgetting the significance of theory.	Column	Apr 1, 2007	1722
Overcoming our humanity: what lies behind utopian projections of a post-biological society?		Feb 1, 2007	1607
Screening out the social: after 50 years of television.		Dec 1, 2006	1599
On the omnivore's dilemma: our challenging relation to food indicates more profound challenges for the future.		Oct 1, 2006	1668
They really are good guys: the contradictions of philanthro-capitalism.	Column	Aug 1, 2006	1490
'Sleep no more': is sleep the newest casualty of late capitalism?		Jun 1, 2006	1620
Playing the dane: the language of freedom has been harnessed to legitimise the war on terror.		Apr 1, 2006	1577
Imagining the post-human: recent books by Kazuo Ishiguro and Michel Houellebecq offer guides of sorts to the post-human.	Critical essay	Feb 1, 2006	1706
Postmodernism-lite: reflections on the recent VCE English debate.		Dec 1, 2005	1718
Postmodernism-lite: reflections on the recent VCE English debate.		Oct 1, 2005	1718
The rise of expert culture: a public sphere dominated by expert opinion is increasingly incapable of morally or historically grounded reflection.		Aug 1, 2005	1537
A day in the life of contemporary ideology: the reception of Ian McEwen's Saturday.	Book review	Jun 1, 2005	1639
Downloading the siren's song: the technological management of otherness.	Editorial	Apr 1, 2005	1564
The democratisation of compassion? A culture of fleeting information and images, evident in the response to the tsunami, threatens to undermine more consistent ethical behaviour.		Feb 1, 2005	1582
Post-Derrida: the complex legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers.		Dec 1, 2004	1466
Accounting for war: what can an 'embedded' description of war tell us about life in civilian societies?	Critical Essay	Oct 1, 2004	1548
A classic cult of virtuosity: the Sydney International Piano competition exemplifies a decline in Australia's musical culture.		Aug 1, 2004	1727
The age of hyper-cynicism: what happens when we can no longer rely upon what others tell us?		Jun 1, 2004	1693
Ecce Pomo: Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ is much more a product of this society than its proponents or critics would like to admit.	Movie Review	Apr 1, 2004	1747
War and peace: has the distinction between the two collapsed? The globalised policing of dissent, opposition and difference, as well as terrorism, is creating a culture of perpetual war.		Dec 1, 2003	2193
Simon Cooper on extending the half-life of green politics.		Jun 1, 2003	2738
Short memory: what will be the long-term consequences of a quick, high-tech war?		Apr 1, 2003	1781
The world is not enough: conservative responses to September 11 reveal a wilful blindness to the line between power and culture. (war).	Book Review	Oct 1, 2002	1669
The small matter of our humanity. (Essay).		Jun 1, 2002	3985
Will democracy come to the USA? (The empire strikes back -- America and its allies Simon Cooper on dissent and democracy in the new climate of control; Paul James visists dreams of redemption in the American heartland; Ray Nichols on America's faith in its own exceptionalism; Andy Butfoy on international diplomacy and global responses; Douglas McQueen-Thomson on the new language of war; and Damien Lawson on fortress Australia).		Oct 1, 2001	1292
Labor Essays 2001 - For The People.	Book Review	Aug 1, 2001	1082
SURVIVING REALITY.	Television Program Review	Apr 1, 2001	1789
CAMP HUMOUR OR SUBLIME HORROR?		Dec 1, 2000	1278
CULTURE ON THE SITE OF BARBARISM?	Brief Article	Jun 1, 2000	607
MAKING IT EASIER FOR ... TELSTRA.		Apr 1, 2000	1219
STAKING OUT A CLAIM IN CYBERSPACE.	Brief Article	Feb 1, 2000	870
UNCANNY REFLECTION.		Dec 1, 1999	1875
WHEN IT'S NO LONGER FUN.		Oct 1, 1999	1584
MARKETING HUMAN RIGHTS.		Aug 1, 1999	1380
YOUTH, GUNS AND AUTOMATIC RESPONSES.		Jun 1, 1999	1585
LET A THOUSAND CHANNELS ...		Dec 1, 1998	1384
Peter Singer - the best we can do?: Darwin has a dubious future.		Aug 1, 1998	1179
McGuinness' Quadrant: straw targets and rationalism.		Jun 1, 1998	1466