Author:

Louis Kleé

Louis Kleé is a co-founder of Demos Journal and a graduate of the ANU. In 2017, he co-won the Australian Book Review’s Peter Porter Prize. His work has recently appeared in The Best Australian Poems 2017.

Reading as Resistance: A History of the Read-In

Beneath the shade of large arch’s awnings there is a rectangular window through which you can see out onto rubble. ‘A Bold New Campus’ is how a placard below the window describes i...

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Opinion

“My Real University Education”: An Interview with Rick Kuhn

Rick Kuhn is an Honorary Associate Professor in Sociology at the ANU. Since his first appointment at ANU in 1987, he has researched and taught in political economy, the history of ...

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Essays

Voices from the Grassroots

It has recently been an active time around the Australian National University, with voices pooled to fight for shared interests. We are fighting significant cuts to the School of C...

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Editorial

Grassroots Activism and Democracy: Judith Butler’s Notes on a Sensate Democracy

“To demand justice […] involves every activist in a philosophical problem” – Judith Butler [1] Judith Butler, the American philosopher and gender theorist, has long intimated a dem...

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Book Reviews

Articulating Silence

In aspiring to publish those voices that are marginalised, misrepresented and ignored by mainstream publishing, it was inevitable that we would come to muse on the meaning of sile...

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Editorial

Creating Demos

To introduce the exciting diversity of voices that make up the first edition of Demos Journal, we embark upon a reflection on the relation between democracy and creativity itsel...

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Editorial

Creating Demos

Holly Zhang; Jemimah Cooper; Linnea Burdon-Smith; Louis Kleé; Odette Shenfield

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Editorial