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Ian Duncanson, "Unchartered Lands in an Age of "Accountability", Res Publica lll/1 (1997) 3-34: Analyses which portray the state and citizenship as existing to protect the more natural life of the individual/consumer, along with the policies justified in terms of these analyses, have been subverted by a corporate politics deploying an economic "logic" which substitutes the relationship of private business and the customer for that of the state and the citizen. Conservative governments in thrall to corporate politics are recreating the symptoms which were a prelude to fascism. To go beyond an insufficient liberalism in Anglophone societies might involve examining 17th century English radicalism, the Marx of On the Jewish Question and some aspects of Chartism. It will certainly require the public sponsorship of and wide access to independent agencies of knowledge: education, publishing, adjudication. It will require the repoliticisation - the recognition that these are political goods - of goals like the disinterested adjudicationof personal quarrels and the reinstallation of political disputes: the recognition that the latter have not been overtaken by a metapolitical logic. fax: +61 3 9882 9527; e-mail: i.duncanson@latrobe.edu.au

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