Richard Rorty, Rorty, neopragmatism, pragmatism, relativism, Making Noises, Euan Mitchell, Mitchell, music, music industry, Australian music industry, Australia, indigenous music, fiction, instrumentalism, William James, James, Pete Steedman, Steedman, 1990s, Ausmusic, Charles Sanders Peirce, Peirce, pragmatic, correspondence theory, pragmatic theory, John Dewey, Dewey, natural right, natural rights, democracy, liberalism, liberal democracy, public, private, contingency, irony, solidarity, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, postmodernism, post-modernism, relativist, neopragmatist, Bob Hawke, Hawke, Paul Keating, Keating, philosophy, creative writing, interdisciplinary, neo-pragmatism, sustainability, Stanford University, Victoria University