home cooked theory

Lookout

The nightlife in WA was something to behold. I personally would have appreciated the power to enforce the last of these stipulations:

Feeling Ordinary

Thanks Glen!
I’m back from Perth feeling far from ordinary after an amazing trip. The Queenslanders were out in force at CSAA. As promised, here is the paper I gave as part of the ‘Fields of Uncool’ panel. Plans are likely for a special journal issue on our theme, so stay tuned. Thanks to the many [...]

WA here we come

Well, many sleep deprived nights and grumpy days later, and following an inordinate amount of beer and wine consumption for early December, my conference paper is ready for Thursday’s ‘Fields of Uncool’ extravaganza. We are hoping that if people don’t particularly want to hear us speak they might at least come along for the chance [...]

SOOB snaps

From last night’s ‘rant off’ at the festival club, featuring ‘Australia’s most famous blogger’, Tim Blair.

Obviously I still have a long way to go…
Unfortunately the only rant I felt like having was about ex-private school boys dominating SOOB’s MC-ing and judging schedule (thankfully I didn’t drink enough to make myself that unpopular) but [...]

Exile

As I understand it, the idea of the academic as one who is ‘in exile’ became something of a flashpoint during the widespread uptake of post-colonial theory throughout the 1990s. To put it roughly, superstar post-colonial academics claiming their status as ‘exile’ while enjoying massive salaries at Ivy League universities were viewed with suspicion by [...]

laugh?

some very funny new stuff here.

From pioneers to profits

From Pioneers to Profit - the four pillars that underpin the Internet
Public Lecture by Kim Anderson, Chief Operating Officer, Southern Star Entertainment
Date: Monday 6 December
Place: Kathleen Room, Staff Club, University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus
Time: 6-7.30pm
From what began as a network for research scientists, and a communications
vehicle for social and political activists, the Internet has [...]

Fast Capitalism

Is it just my imagination that a new journal seems to be announced almost every day now? How is it possible that they are all read? This one might be worth keeping an eye on:
Fast Capitalism is an academic journal with a political intent. We publish reviewed scholarship and essays about the impact of [...]

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