Recent content by deusexmachina

Hey all, it's Charles here (yeah, the guy that physician was talking about): Let it be known that I didn't actually write everyday. Let it also be known that I paid for it with years of my life in the week before it was due. Trust me: do what I say in that article, not what I did. The RS...

PS - You can call me whatever you want to. It's as my dear ol' Grandad used ta say - 'you can call me anything you want, as long as you don't call me late for breakfast.'

Well, I'm a little overwhelmed. Alright, I'll begin with the following: Dear, sweet, merciful, munificent, benevolent, holy, omnipotent God. Who ARE you people (well, except for poongk - how are you guys?) ?! You wouldn't believe the amount of stick I got for that photo. See, the...

Yeah, yeah, date them...or don't. I did for some of the time, and then threw in some arbitrary dates the weekend before it's due. It'll work.

You could factor in what you yourself think about postmodernism, but of course, that's just your reading (according to Roland Barthes). Jean-Francois Lyotard: postmodernism is..."incredulity towards all grand narratives." Yes, it's as simple as that. I believe that trying to encapsulate...

You could factor in what you yourself think about postmodernism, but of course, that's just your reading (according to Roland Barthes). Jean-Francois Lyotard: postmodernism is..."incredulity towards all grand narratives." Yes, it's as simple as that. I believe that trying to encapsulate...

My, we certainly have gone off topic. :) In fact, all of us lefties have completely betrayed a Maoist principle - at meetings, speakers should not speak for too long, lest they verge into egoism (which happens to be perhaps the greatest internal risk to socialism.) In any case: if you're...

And precisely this is why Che is so goshdarned popular. As well as the fact that it's a damned good movie. Go see it, no matter your political preference. The Asian tsunami disaster, I believe, proves that there is a strong economic altruism throughout the world. It comes out at disasters...

Some very good ideas, chubbaraff! As it stands, I'm a Green(which is a party any proto-socialist, social democrat, leftist thinker, or environmentally conscious should join). I staunchly advocate the unification of the left to provide a feasible alternative to capitalism. If we are separate...

"how do you tell a group of people who have tasted materilistic wealth to conform to an idea where their years of working up the corporate ladder is unaccounted for?" Quite easily. You do it from the other end of an AK47. :) How do you change materialism? You promote a culture that does not...

What do we mean, anyway, by the 'fundaments' of a country? Do we mean the method by which the country is governed? Do we mean its economic foundations? Are the two the same thing? Erk! Comrade Nathan, please don't slander the good name of Marxism by associating it with the bastard...

Let's be brief here. Stalinist Russia, modern-day China -- these are examples of Authoritarian communism. Let's have a brief squizz at some countries which espouse modern socialism: -Sweden Nominal tax rate of around 70%. Highest standard of living in the world. Among highest standards of...

What's the SMH coming to? This ignorant article is yet another cheap, McCarthyist ('the scary demon of communism') example of the type of conservative rubbish that's considered 'de rigeur' today. Louis Nowra, take a bow - you've slandered an economic theory which espouses nobler values than the...

Synopsis/Reflection Statement: The Nine Cities of Troy: A Requiem for Utopia 'Creative critique' of the Utopian ideal and genre in contemporary literary theory. A postmodernistic mix of styles/ text types - a short story with extended quasi-poetic sections, but with an essay-based...

Hey all... yep, definitely heading to ANU, and have been planning to for a while - probably arts/law. Anyone staying at Bruce this year?