December 08, 2004

Philosophy radio

Posted by Chris

The postgraduate colloquium at La Trobe have archived their radio show on the web. I’ve listened to bits of the “democracy” programme and, the this Pom’s ears, the participants begin by exuding a certain antipodean charm and thereby remind me of a certain Monty Python sketch … but the discussion gets serious pretty quickly. It continues the be marked by a certain Australian robustness, however, as when one participant utters the words:

”.. if only those stupid arseholes out there would vote the right way, and take the right decision … yet we can’t disenfrancise any of them ….”

Other programmes have a bit too much of a po-mo ring about them for my taste, but others will disagree.

Posted on December 8, 2004 08:03 AM UTC
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