Oh my…

Oh my… Originally uploaded by rollergirl. Thanks to Jean, PI, plenty more colourful content will be coming this way, and no one will escape the roving lens of mc gregg….

growing pains

let it be noted that this blog does respond to loyal readers’ requests, hence i will refrain from writing anything about yesterday’s grand final here and will clearly state from now on whether an entry contains football references! instead, i might relate some of the interesting points made in the keynote addresses i heard yesterday [...]

footy again

It’s Grand Final week in Brisvegas and getting in the spirit I’ve started work on the AFL project. My toughest audience, the 2220 students, will get an overview in a couple of weeks’ time before I give what I hope will be a more developed argument at the Dialogues Across Cultures conference in November. Surprising [...]

drea’s day

despite some unfortunate gaffs during the broadcast (it wasn’t just me who noticed the music cut out when Jeffrey Wright mentioned AIDS and african-americans in the same sentence) i had my own little shriek of glee when Drea de Matteo won her emmy last night. what a speech: “There are so many people that are [...]

the dawn of research week

after a weekend when too much football wasn’t nearly enough (code for: didn’t leave the couch a helluva lot) i decided to venture out of the sandstone tower to the research week lunchtime forum: ‘universities have a responsibility to commercialise their research: academics as entrepreneurs’. ok, i admit the free lunch was a factor, and [...]

speaking of paranoid

Wow, now that i’m engaged in serious procrastination by searching to see how far that soundbyte has gone i’ve just discovered that the review of Eve Sedgwick’s book i wrote ages ago has been published on electronic book review. cool.

how’s this!

my results: You are 0% geek Boy, you really broke through the bottom on this one. You are SO not geek. I recommend staying away from conventions, computer stores, colleges, universities, or anywhere else people might display the slightest interest in something other than what’s on TV at the present moment. Your mere presence among [...]

the italian effect

while i would rather be talking about how overjoyed i am that six feet under has returned, it’s probably time i discussed all things italian, because it really was a conference worth talking about. bifo’s thursday night lecture at UTS attracted a big crowd with good haircuts. outlining the inevitable collision between cybertime, the ‘infosphere’ [...]

sidonee

back again in sydders, and all seems right with the world. tara picks me up for free by parking in the departures dropoff zone (local nous). we take the redfern/erskineville route back to brown st. we have some baileys and talk about the election and our jobs. i run the paper argument by her and [...]

rebel without a degree

so yesterday was the mid-semester test for 2220. one student refused to answer any of the 50 questions on theories and theorists, instead choosing to scrawl random Foucault quotes on the coversheet (implying our thorough imbrication in institutions of disciplinarity) and walk out after five minutes. do we applaud the sophisticated grasp of the theory/practice [...]

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