The passage of Australia’s Modern Slavery Act 2018 received bipartisan support and was heralded within both Houses Parliament as a significant step towards addressing complicity in modern slavery. Political discourse surrounding the legislation, however, exhibits profound disconcerting dehistoricisation, emphasising particularities global supply chains contemporary transnational capitalism. own...

It's a beautiful universe ... wondrous and the more exciting because no one has written plays and poems and built sculptures to indicate the structure of desire I negotiate every day as I move about in it.-Samuel Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand The problem of power is one of the major philosophical and political preoccupations of the modern West. It is a problem which has drawn t...

In his book on Liberalism against Populism, William Riker argued that Lincoln’s success in the 1860 election was the culmination of a long progression of strategic attempts by the Whig coalition of commercial interests to defeat the ‘Jeffersonian-Jacksonian’ Democratic coalition of agrarian populism. Riker adduced Lincoln’s success to his ‘heresthetic’ maneuver to force his competitor, Douglas,...