It had to happen

Posted on | February 15, 2005 | 4 Comments

What: Inaugural 2005 Brisvegas Bloggers Meetup

When: Friday, February 25, 6pm

Where: Rics Bar, Brunswick St Mall, Fortitude Valley

Learn more and RSVP here.

The date’s switched from a Sunday arvo I could make to a Friday night I can’t, so if you’re around please go and be my fly on the wall! I reckon grogblogging will be like fondue parties for our generation: a fad in hindsight but a truck load of fun at the time.

Category: Out in Vegas

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4 Responses to “It had to happen”

  1. Mark Bahnisch
    February 15th, 2005 @ 1:08 pm

    Hey Mel

    So sorry you can’t make it. Hopefully we’ll have more advance notice for the next one! It proved a pretty difficult task to juggle everyone’s availability and my suggestion will probably be to switch it around – maybe alternate a night time thing and a Sunday arvo – since a few people seem to work nights.

  2. Mark Bahnisch
    February 15th, 2005 @ 1:45 pm

    Apologies for the shameless plug, but some of your readers might be interested in a very heated debate about deconstruction, post-structuralism and postmodernism that’s ongoing at Troppo.

    http://troppoarmadillo.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/008500.html

  3. mc gregg
    February 17th, 2005 @ 11:59 am

    It’s a fascinating debate Mark. Nelson really knows how to distract his opposition. Reminds me of a talk Graeme Turner gave last year about interdisciplinarity (notes are here: http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/000071.html) , where he reflected on how cultural studies has been taken up in high schools. His daughter had been asked to do an assignment on ‘the Other’, at which point GT thought to himself: ‘What have we *done*?’

    To me this really highlights the importance of recognising cultural studies as a discipline with finite methodologies and objectives. I think it’s important to fight for those at an institutional level, and that senior figures in the field occupy administrative positions to ensure that happens in a rigorous way. I also reckon there’s a limit on how much schools can plausibly do. It’s difficult to be interdisciplinary or self-reflexive about your perspective if you haven’t ever been trained in anything.

    On an entirely different point, if it’s true that Australian high school students have been indoctrinated in cultural studies theory for at least the past few years, why do my students continue to complain about how hard their assignments are?!

  4. Mark Bahnisch
    February 17th, 2005 @ 5:48 pm

    Indeed, Mel. As a teacher of first year sociology for four years, I’m wondering why it was so hard to get people to see class and gender relations structure knowledge and social behaviour if everyone learnt this at High School in English!

    Anyway, on reflection, I think that the debate at Troppo is between people arguing that the aesthetic is a domain somehow contaminated if the political is allowed to enter its hallowed halls, and those who don’t think this, hence my latest (and last) entry into the Troppo literature wars:

    http://troppoarmadillo.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/008519.html