Writing as Praxis: Catherine Ryan Interviews Nina Power

Abstract

Abstract A discussion between British philosopher, writer and activist, Nina Power, and Australian artist and writer, Catherine Ryan, about topics including: writing as a praxis; the political capacity of the polemical form; the politics of debate; the need to return to grand, structural terms for socio-political analysis; the role of the public intellectual; the effects of the Internet on the role of the public intellectual; and the relation between art and politics.