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Features

Articles selected for their contemporary relevance or depth of analysis.

Jane Austen Festival

Jane Austen: not ‘great literature’

12 December 2021 Peter Strempel 0

The novels of Jane Austen are not great literature for their naïve and narrow conception of the world, which approaches propaganda.

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‘As if’ is not ‘what is’

13 January 2021 Peter Strempel 0

If we confuse simplified models and metaphors for reality in political and economic policy, we can create disaster for real people.

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Typography reveals more than just words

25 December 2020 Peter Strempel 0

The serif is a constant companion, a known quantity, a faithful servant of the words.

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What does Nietzsche say to us today?

2 December 2020 Peter Strempel 0

Nietzsche’s ideas have become powerfully pervasive in our culture, mostly without explicit acknowledgement.

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Switzer’s critique of ABC exposes Australian right as neo-fascists

5 March 2018 Peter Strempel 0

Tom Switzer’s arguments expose Australian ‘conservatism’ as a timid kind of neo-fascist, populist demagoguery.

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The Vietnam War (2017): I

21 November 2017 Peter Strempel 0

Brilliant, arresting, insightful, the Burns-Novick documentary is a masterpiece of propaganda not entirely negatively defined.

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Underworld USA: America unimagined

24 December 2015 Peter Strempel 0

In Underworld USA, Ellroy eclipses even weirdness. Moving beyond into a genre and status that is just Ellroy on his own.

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The Key Largo hypothesis: Brooks and Huston set the noir context

7 July 2014 Peter Strempel 0

My hypothesis that Huston’s Key Largo defined and limited the territory of film noir as exclusively American and subtly ‘New Deal’ political.

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Existentialism as philosophy of action

24 June 2012 Peter Strempel 0

Existentialism offers a valuable tool for critical analysis well-suited to engage with liberal ideals of egalitarianism and individual liberty.

Features

Jane Austen Festival

Jane Austen: not ‘great literature’

12 December 2021 0
As if banner image.

‘As if’ is not ‘what is’

13 January 2021 0
Typography banner image.

Typography reveals more than just words

25 December 2020 0
Nietzsche banner image.

What does Nietzsche say to us today?

2 December 2020 0
ABC Brisbane headquarters.

Switzer’s critique of ABC exposes Australian right as neo-fascists

5 March 2018 0

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ABC Al Pacino Barnaby Joyce Christian Porter Christopher Hitchens Claude Lévi-Strauss Coalition David Cornwell Democrats Donald Trump Edward Dmytryk Edward Norton Facebook film noir Hans Vaihinger hardboiled HUAC Humphrey Bogart Ian Richardson Immanuel Kant James Ellroy Jean Paul Sartre Joe Biden John Le Carre Jürgen Habermas Karl Marx Ken Burns Kwame Anthony Appiah Liam Neeson Lynn Novick Martin Heidegger Michel Foucault Neil Sheehan News Corp News Corporation Peter Dutton Ridley Scott Roland Barthes Rupert Murdoch Scott Morrison Scotty from marketing Sigmund Freud Simon Birmingham Thomas Hobbes Veronica Lake

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