Mathew Abbott
@mathew_abbott
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Humanities lecturer & NTEU President, FedUni. Aesthetics, ecology, self-consciousness. Books on Kiarostami, Agamben @EdinburghUP, Michael Fried @routledgebooks
Melbourne
Joined February 2012
Thesis Eleven has published an online first version of my paper on posthumanism as a failed response to scientism. It argues we need not choose between the scientistic image of nature as insignificant matter & posthumanist reenchantment. It’s open access:
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RT @RochfordSReview: On the centenary of Francis Webb's birth we are republishing Robert Adamson's essay 'Something Absolutely Splendid – R…
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RT @acidhorizonpod: just recorded an episode with @leninology on his newest book 'Disaster Nationalism' from @VersoBooks as part of our co…
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I’m on the latest Philosopher’s Zone with a bunch of interesting people discussing Sellars. @patstokes and Cathy Legg did a heap of excellent work putting this together!
Rediscovering Wilfrid Sellars | Philosopher's Zone |
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RT @Mblaz39: My piece in @Thesis11, for a edition I edited with @NoLuckLopez on Gillian Rose. I examine Rose's politics in light of her int…
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RT @MkBlyth: And at the same time as that 'green-leftist-labour party' opts for a third runway at Heathrow, and drill baby drill becomes po…
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RT @albernaj: finally out: @Krimpurnicus 's translation of a forgotten Walter Benjamin essay on Baudelaire (untranslated until now! origina…
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RT @LachlanClohesy: “There’s no other job in Australia where you can be paid so exorbitantly while performing so badly, with seemingly no c…
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RT @fbongiornoanu: Graeme Turner on a seemingly interesting parliamentary report from Tasmania on the broken Australian university model. h…
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I wrote @nplusonemag identifying the impasse of the moment through the lens of Andreas Malm and Luigi Mangione, and the interlinking narrative, political, and material crises of the United States -- as well as the questions it poses the road ahead
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RT @sophiejrigney: How many other times has an Australian 'first law officer' visited a state where the sitting PM is under an arrest warra…
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RT @actuarynews: The global economy could face a 50% loss in GDP between 2070-2090, unless immediate policy action on risks posed by the cl…
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RT @MarxPhilosophy: New review just published online in the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books: Corinna Lotz on David Bakhurst's The Hear…
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RT @NTEUVictoria: After Monash University admits another $7.6m in wage theft, NTEU pushes for a government inquiry. "We urgently need a tho…
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RT @LRB: ‘The loss of more than 90 per cent of Southern California’s agricultural buffer zone is the principal if seldom mentioned reason w…
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RT @BDehbozorgi83: "LLMs aren't linguistic agents like humans. Sensational claims overlook that language is embodied, participatory & dynam…
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RT @jadaliyya: “Jews were not singled out as the exceptional minority in the 19thcentury Middle East. It's simply not the case. There's not…
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RT @Wizard__Bisan: Updates | Kamal Adwan Hospital! 1:00 pm, 27th Dec.2024, 75 patients, 350 caretakers and displaced alongside with the med…
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RT @PeruginiNic: Soldiers and tanks surrounding the last barely functioning medical facility in northern Gaza, readying to empty it after…
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RT @ryanhasbadtaste: what an art history seminar some enterprising academic could make of this novel
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