No longer geographically remote from the principal theatres of great power confrontation, Australia is adapting to the uncomfortable possibility of being a ‘front line state’. Increasingly, foreign policy analysts call on the government to apply an ‘all tools of statecraft’ approach to the nation’s multi-dimensional threat environment, especially across the Indo-Pacific. Among others, the Labor […]

When Will Natural Gas Prices Normalize, and How Will We Know When They Are Normal? By Sergei Komlev [This analysis of the current natural gas pricing crisis is an extension of the concepts presented by the author in Foundations of Natural Gas Formation – Misunderstandings Jeopardizing the Future of the Industry, Anthem Press 2020.] First […]

When we see body counts rise, the human capacity to respond often becomes frozen. “The more who die, the less we care,” as highlighted in a recent article published in Risk Analysis, which follows up on Paul Slovic’s earlier work on psychic numbing. We have all seen this happen with COVID – the number of […]

Miguel de Cervantes famously claimed to have composed Don Quixote de la Mancha to combat the imaginative hold that books of chivalry had over his contemporaries. Reading the novel for the first time as an undergraduate, however, I had been instinctively drawn to the eponymous hero who decided to transform his own life into a […]

John Dewey argued in Art as Experience (1934/2005) that art is central to the sustainability of daily life. In doing so, he is not only talking about being a consumer of arts by attendance at events or exhibitions but the creation of the aesthetic dimension within our lives from arranging our homes and gardens, to […]

Anyone who is knowledgeable about Britain and its role in Palestine after World War I knows that Britain was given the territory by Turkey under a peace treaty and that the League of Nations legalized Britain’s tenure, conferring a mandate on Britain to implement a national home for the Jewish people because of a Jewish […]

Dr Maryam Farahani – July 2022 Health and beauty classifications are controversial topics in humanities and sciences, but they are also inevitable concepts upon which people ponder in the path of self-discovery. In their edited volume, Narrative Art and the Politics of Health (Anthem, 2021), Neil Brooks and Sarah Blanchette aptly argued, “as scientific advances […]

by Andy Stafford, Senior Lecturer in French Studies, University of Leeds; author of the forthcoming book Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self. As we emerge now (hopefully!) from two years of the pandemic and regular lock-down, isolation and confinement, the world suddenly can be apprehended, in some sense, afresh. Not that we can […]

Drawn to Blake In Ross Glass’s 2020 psychological horror film, Saint Maud, the title character, a hospice nurse who has recently converted to an extremely ascetic form of Catholicism after a hedonistic earlier phase, is given a book of William Blake’s prints (Morton Paley’s 1978 Phaidon edition) by the woman in her care, Amanda. Viewers […]