Extreme Academia, Safe Hermeneutics

This lil article seems to be doing the rounds, and came to me via Bitch PhD (a name I should borrow when I’m in crabby moods like this one). They’d get plenty of footage for ‘The Apprentice’ at a certain local university here in Brisvegas! My favourite in the list is ‘Average Joe’, maybe because [...]

See this band

The feminist anthem is back and I couldn’t be happier. Do yourself a favour.

Judith Butler + Wendy Brown in Sydney

The Australian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) Annual Conference 2005 ‘The Politics of Being’ 15th – 17th June 2005, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Offers of papers are invited from researchers in the field of Continental Philosophy. Related topics for discussion include: political exclusion and violence; cosmopolitanism and hospitality; diversity and impossible community; [...]

Intellectuals, public and otherwise

The role of the scholar, I think, is to collect, interpret and disseminate information and knowledge. In order to do this kind of work, you need to have a certain amount of detachment from the knowledge you’re accumulating and sifting through, you have to have a certain indifference to it. To be an intellectual you [...]

Quiz

Who was Robert Hughes talking about in this passage (with or without irony)? Language does not clarify, it intimidates. It subjects the reader to a rite of passage and extorts assent as the price of entry. For the savant’s thought is so radically original that ordinary words will not do. Its newness requires neologism; it [...]

Not spam

This announcement was forwarded to me by a friend and unfortunately I can’t attend. In the interests of solidarity to my old ‘hood I post: This is a call to all who aspire to compete in the Marrickville Jelly Wrestling Federation 2004-2005 season. The auditions will be held from 19.00 to 22.00 on Monday, the [...]

Blogging, gender and me: A love/hate story in four paragraphs

So there’s the blog project on the go over at QUT and there’s also Blogtalk to look forward to down in Sydney in May. I’m hoping to combine my contribution to both by writing a piece that looks at the kinds of scholarship assumed to be useful and natural for new media forms, speculating on [...]

Productive procrastination

While the competition is stiff, the award for most productive procrastination of the summer thus far goes to Rowan Wilken, who has just forwarded me his “A-Z of Cultural Theory”. Pin it to your hearts, comrades, and tell potential publishers: As We Were Saying As Agamben says, “Remember that the word enclosed within quotation marks [...]

Fear of the blogosphere

There are explanations for the reticence here on the blog lately, but most people who care about these things already know them. At the moment life is one big experiment in nomadism and turn of the 90s sedan capacity. Maybe this is the stuff of my pending Deleuze chapter: nomadology for the independent twenty something [...]

Please explain #2: Crazed JJJ fans

It’s Hottest 100 time on the radio and apparently it’s causing some interest. I like how the Herald Sun captioned this photo by describing the person as a ‘Denis Leary fan’. My tip is that Franz Ferdinand will be the next addition to the list, however if it turns out to be Missy Higgins then [...]

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