November 12th, 2008
Russel Brown
Hard News
Prospects: November 07, 2008
Our last November election took place on November 27, 1999. The day before, I delivered a Hard News commentary looking back at the election campaign and forward to tomorrow. It’s instructive to observe what hasn’t changed: John Campbell did most of the talking in the TV3 leaders’ debate, for example. And the polls suggest a change of government. It is not a done deal, and the change could happen in a number of ways, but the odds are certainly with change.
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September 27th, 2008
Cover story of Adbusters Issue #79, on newsstands now.
We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality.
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January 21st, 2007
Not my work - but I decided to keep this as it was the most commented-on article from the old version of State Your Position.
Alan Kirby
Philosophy Now
Nov/Dec 2006
Postmodernism is dead and buried. In its place comes a new paradigm of authority and knowledge formed under the pressure of new technologies and contemporary social forces.
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