There has been a lot of comment about addressing climate change (global warming) in Australia and in the international community. This image sums up the general judgment about the actions of Australian Rudd Government:

In this context of the failure of instrumental reason to tackle climate change Blake Stimson's The Photographic Comportment of Bernd and Hilla Becher in the Tate's Online Research Journal makes for interesting reading. It is about photography the aesthetic and instrumental economic reason and moving beyond the critical negation of failed political attachments of the modernist past; of how the political past is negotiated within our sense of the present and how that settlement inhabits the realm of the aesthetic.