For a Renewed ‘State Debate’
After a few requests, I’m publishing my contribution to a roundtable on Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin’s book The Making of Global Capitalism delivered at Historical Materialism Australasia this week. The...
View ArticleThinking through David Harvey’s theorisation of neoliberalism
David Harvey is the most significant Marxist theorist of the neoliberal era and his conceptual framework is developed, chiefly, in his works The New Imperialism (2003) and A Brief History of...
View ArticleNeoliberalism’s Dominant Narrative
Use of the term ‘neoliberalism’ is widespread in the social sciences. While debates have raged since the 2008 economic crisis as to whether neoliberalism persists or has faltered, many argue it...
View ArticleKlein’s ‘shock doctrine’ thesis & the Whitlam dismissal
Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine (2007) is one of the most widely read critical accounts of neoliberalism. Klein argues that governments have used ‘disasters’ of various kinds to implement neoliberal...
View ArticleAnti-politics, movements & the practical critique of the state
In November I co-organised (with Tad Tietze) a panel discussion on ‘Anti-politics, social movements & the practical critique of the state’ at the London Historical Materialism Journal conference....
View ArticleCall for papers: Gramsci workshop for research students
I am currently helping to organise a graduate workshop at the University of Sydney, exploring the work of Antonio Gramsci. All research students, whether based in Australia or overseas, are welcome to...
View ArticleAnti-politics and the illusions of neoliberalism
We live in anti-political times. After a twentieth century in which Western societies experienced the rise and entrenchment of mass representative institutions, where hundreds of millions of people...
View ArticleNeoliberalism and the Accord: 3CR podcast
The 14th Biennial National Labour History Conference, ‘Fighting Against War: Peace Activism in the Twentieth Century’ was held at Queen’s College, University of Melbourne, 11-13 February 2015. My...
View ArticleHistorical Materialism 2015, Sydney, Call for Papers
The call for papers for Historical Materialism Australasia, to be held in Sydney on 17 & 18 July 2015, has just been released. Abstracts are due by 15 May. I’m particularly excited as Raewyn...
View ArticleTravels with Gramsci
This post was first published at Progress in Political Economy, the blog of the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Click here for the audio of my talk on Soundcloud. *** Some...
View ArticleWhy didn’t neoliberalism start during the Fraser Government
Many people associate the beginning of neoliberalism with the election of conservative governments influenced by the New Right and theorists such as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. A useful...
View ArticleSeminar on the Accord and neoliberalism
I am speaking at the University of Sydney next week, on ‘Australia under the Accord (1983-1996): Simultaneously Deepening Corporatism and Advancing Neoliberalism’. 5 May 2016, Darlington Centre...
View ArticleSimultaneously deepening corporatism and advancing neoliberalism
Audio of my seminar at the University of Sydney, exploring the Accord in the context of neoliberalism in Australia is now online here.
View ArticleResponse to Megalogenis in Quarterly Essay
I recently had a short piece, co-authored by Tad Tietze, printed in response to George Megalogenis’ essay ‘Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal’. The Megalogenis essay is available...
View ArticleIs the term neoliberalism useful?
© Gerd Winner, Free Trade Wharf, 1972 / TATE Modern Originally published at PPE. There is an emerging body of literature questioning the usefulness of the term ‘neoliberalism’. This work has...
View ArticleThe pathologisation of Trump
Dr Tad Tietze and I are currently writing a book on the unravelling of contemporary politics in advanced capitalist countries, which includes a consideration of the tendency to pathologise...
View ArticleMorbid symptoms in the history of class now
Next week I am speaking at the Sydney Historical Research Network seminar, as part of their History Now series. The topic is ‘The History of Class Now’. Speaking chronologically are Hannah Forsyth...
View ArticleWill artificial intelligence destroy capitalism?
I recently took part in an episode of Think: Digital Futures, on ‘Will artificial intelligence destroy capitalism?': There’s no doubt that artificial intelligence is going to be smarter than humans —...
View ArticleTranscript: Morbid symptoms presentation
The following is the text of a presentation I gave this week, as part of the Sydney Historical Research Network seminar series ‘History Now’. This week’s topic was ‘The History of Class Now’. *** If...
View ArticleWen you laugh togetha
By Elizabeth Humphrys and Jackie Lynch. This article first appeared on Overland Journal. The AFLW (Women’s Australian Football League) has happened and we couldn’t be happier about it, even if that...
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