Familiar code for “gay”
Do people really still think that claiming bisexuality is a safe way to stay ‘quasi-closeted’? Patrick More argues that Sontag’s contribution as an intellectual is all the more important because of her sexuality. So why can’t he accept her own description of it?
It continues to amaze me how hard it is to live free from [...]
This means you
Colleagues Peta Mitchell and Angi Buettner are looking for participants for a project “that will gauge the opinions of ‘early career’ people regarding public intellectual life in Australia, and to examine their professional activities in producing knowledge and participating in public work”:
We are interested in assessing what early career workers within and outside of academe [...]
Congratulations
My old mate David Teh submitted his PhD before Christmas, so if you’re in Sydney please go along to this and get him drunk for me. You won’t regret it.
Belated retorts
I hereby pledge that I will eventually write a report on the CSAA conference, probably sooner rather than later. But I’m only now getting round to reading Lefebvre’s Everyday Life in the Modern World, which I intended to read two years ago and - given the title, ‘Everyday Transformations: The 21st Century Quotidian’ - really [...]
Death to The Art of Prudence
The principal new year resolution is that we be resolute. For too long I have been content with a cramped space, curbing the imagined lengths of my will, my hope and my fear. Speculation doesn’t seem enough anymore. There are too many reminders that our time is finite, and so many of you I want [...]
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