home cooked theory

Academic writing

The CSAA conference is just 9 days away, and like just about everyone I seem to know in the bizznez, I’m working on my paper. Amanda Roe has kindly passed on two gems: Judith Brett’s 1991 paper from Meanjin, ‘The Bureaucratization of Writing: Why so few academics are public intellectuals’ and Tim Dunlop’s ‘If you [...]

Bad Santa

“No one in American film right now does bitter white trash better than Billy Bob.”
Watch this film before attempting Christmas shopping! It may help.

List lessons

I’ve been reading some of the position statements for the upcoming fibreculture conference in Melbourne. Anna Munster’s excellent post has helped me think more productively about why I am frustrated with the recurring mode of engagement on that list, and it reinforces my wish that the facilitators would write more often. With thrift and [...]

charm

In life there is a sort of awkwardness, a delicacy of health, a frailty of constitution, a vital stammering which is someoneís charm. Charm is the source of life just as style is the source of writing. Life is not your history ñ those who have no charm have no life, it is as though [...]

expertise

Since becoming a postdoctoral fella, I have been asked to comment on three events in my professional capacity as a publicly funded researcher.
1. Big Brother – the Merlin incident (for readers unfamiliar, this year an evictee from the BB house staged a protest against the government’s policy of mandatory detention for asylum seekers, disrupting [...]

blog name of the day

Freudian Slippers.

Blog Explosion

Is anyone out there using blog explosion? I’m gonna try it for a while. Seems like a fast way to discover new blogs, but wondering whether there’s no such thing as a free lunch and the spam kings and queens will love me even more now…

Negri and Cavarero in Sydney

PHYSIOGNOMY OF ORIGIN:
Multiplicities, Bodies and Radical Politics
A 3-day international conference at the University of Sydney, 5th ñ 7th May 2005
Keynote speakers: Antonio Negri, Adriana Cavarero
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/rihss/origin.html
This conference brings together two key figures in the contemporary reconsideration of the concept of origin. Radical theorist and activist, Antonio Negri has introduced a materialist perspective on the concept of [...]

SOOB

The draft program for the Straight out of Brisbane festival has been posted. Looks like there are some very cool kids coming to town, including James A from UTS and ATTAC, some of the Spinach 7 team and dudes from the chaser, CNNNN and crikey. Hooray!

6FU genius #2

Orchid lady: ‘Excuse me, but you can’t do that’.
Art school student who has just picked orchid: ‘It’s ok, Dick Cheney is my uncle’.

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