Unborn mothers: The old rhetoric of new reproductive technologies

Lisa Guenther ~ RP 130 (Mar/Apr 2005) ~ Commentary

Commentary Unborn mothers The old rhetoric of new reproductive technologies Lisa guenther If nothing else, the new reproductive technologies produce fabulous headlines. One of the most impressive comes from the Guardian: ʻProspect of babies from unborn mothers.ʼ [1] A team of researchers in Israel led by Dr Tal Biron-Shental have been attempting to grow viable […]

‘Joining tracks with the world’: The impossibility of politics in China

Rebecca E. Karl ~ RP 131 (May/Jun 2005) ~ Article

‘Joining tracks with the world’ The impossibility of politics in China Rebecca E. Karl Shortly before the October Revolution, Lenin challenged his comrades: ʻI donʼt know how radical you are or how radical I am. I am certainly not radical enough; that is, one must always try to be as radical as reality itself.ʼ [1] […]

Orgreave revisited: David Peace’s GB84 and the return to the 1980s

Joseph Brooker ~ RP 133 (Sep/Oct 2005) ~ Article

Leslie Grantham: Thatʼs what the eighties are all about: nostalgia. Anita Dobson: Well… how could it be anything else?80s Mania (ITV, 12 June 2004)Most of the things one imagines in hell are there – heat, noise, confusion, darkness, foul air, and, above all, unbearably cramped space. George OrwellOurs is a retrospective culture, in which the […]