Next Past & Present Reading Group Text
Adam David Morton | December 13, 2025
All the details on the next text selected by the Past & Present Reading Group, commencing in 2026.
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Mapping the World of David Ireland
Adam David Morton | November 18, 2025
In Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland, subtitled “An Australian Atlas”, Brett Heino has delivered a classic book on political economy, space, and literature. It is highly original and offers a series of consistent contributions that people will engage with, use, deploy and build on.
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Book Launch: Brett Heino, Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland
Adam David Morton | September 19, 2025
Book launch of Brett Heino, Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland that explores economy and space in Australia through the literature of Miles Franklin prize-winning author David Ireland.
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Hothousing for Development: sorting out the mixed economy and state capitalism
David Avilés Espinoza | Adam David Morton | May 26, 2025
Our new article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space seeks to refocus attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" contemporary debates on the mixed economy and state capitalism. What's at stake in the mixed economy debate?
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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text
Adam David Morton | April 15, 2025
What is the 34th book chosen for the Past & Present Reading Group at the University of Sydney?
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Henri Lefebvre and the Lukács Question
Stuart Elden | Adam David Morton | March 11, 2025
What was ‘the Lukács Question’? Sometimes referred to as a ‘debate’ or an ‘affair’, the Lukács question was a reference in the 1950s to the resurfacing of attacks on Georg Lukács under the shadow of Stalinism, something that attracted the attention of Henri Lefebvre.
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Novel Reading in 2024
Adam David Morton | December 31, 2024
So what did I get through in a year’s worth of "novel" reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling outside of my “normal” academic reading? My use of the term “novel” reading is loosely adopted, as you will see from the list below.
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Reading Moby Dick and Antonio Gramsci
Adam David Morton | July 2, 2024
How might the critique of the scientific method in Herman Meville's Moby Dick be related to a reading of Antonio Gramsci or Edward Said in some of their combined reflections on science and the exploitation and examination of society and nature?
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