The Red Taylorist: The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Polakov is the culmination of years of archival research tracing the story of this Polakov, a Russian radical who immigrated to the United States in 1906. Throughout the course of the book, Kelly unfolds in wonderful detail the various [...]
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What if a longstanding monument or a building can slice through history (time) and geography (space) to provide past and present insights on the construction of place? Essentially this has been a question explicitly carried throughout one aspect of my ongoing research on spatial political [...]
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The Department of Political Economy and The Novel Network, both at the University of Sydney, co-hosted a roundtable focus on Space, Place and Capitalism: The Literary Geographies of The Unknown Industrial Prisoner by Brett Heino, which represents the first time that a literary economy approach [...]
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This forum revisits a Special Issue entitled ‘Politicizing Artistic Pedagogies: Publics, Spaces, Teachings’ published in late 2021 in the journal Art & the Public Sphere, edited by Ian Bruff & Mel Jordan. The Special Issue sought to disrupt more conventional understandings of art, politics and [...]
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The Australian Basic Income Lab organised its inaugural national workshop on Friday 10 December 2021. Hosted by the School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Sydney, the workshop focused on the topic of 'Basic Income after COVID-19 – Social Security, Work & Wealth'. Recordings [...]
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When Rowan Cahill first asked whether I would be interested in reading and reviewing his and Terry Irving’s The Barber Who Read History: Essays in Radical History, I signed on without hesitation. Almost immediately, a series of questions passed through my head that will be instantly [...]
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The Past & Present Reading Group recently held a workshop on ‘negative totality,’ read through the work of Chris O’Kane, who has developed and defended that concept within contemporary critical theory. In lieu of his attendance (due to our failure to achieve space-time compression), we have [...]
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The war in Donbas has raged for almost seven years. The conflict, fought between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and ‘pro-Russian’ separatist groups and primarily affecting the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetska and Luhanska, has continued since 2014. The war has been waged over a 427km contact [...]
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