home cooked theory

Some form of sanity

If you haven’t seen it, Jon Stewart on the Schiavo case. It’s about 4mb, and very funny.

For what it’s worth

Well, I really don’t know what to do about this wretched blog until I hear from Adrian, so I’ll just keep posting even though the archives are being held somewhere else and comments are currently impossible. How frustrating! Oh well, at least this whole experience is making me realise how much I now rely on [...]

Kerry O’Brien @ UQ

Responsible Journalism
Friday 15 April 2005
2:00-5:00pm
The Innes Room – Bldg 21
UQ Student Union Centre
Presented by the School of Journalism and Communication and the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at The University of Queensland.
This keynote address by Adjunct Professor Kerry O’Brien will be followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Michael Bromley, the School of [...]

Ever wondered whether you should meet other bloggers?

Actual quotes from Brisbane bloggers at yesterday’s meet up:
“My wife’s gay and I’m a homophobe.”
“You are the worst person I’ve met in Australia.”
“I have a massive blog crush on you.”
“All of those arguments would be legitimate in the south.”
Intense stuff! You don’t get to have conversations like that very often. Thanks to Mark [...]

Renovations

Things might be a bit confusing here for the next few days as I change over to wordpress. Currently trying to find some missing content and work out where my blogroll has gone. Do stay tuned, I’ll try to make it worth the wait!

The joy of intuition, the joy of concepts

Elizabeth Grosz gave a wonderful lecture this afternoon at UQ. It made me feel a lot better about having spent the last two months wrestling my Deleuzian demons, and couldn’t have come at a better time – two days before my chapter deadline. Like Anne, I need to believe in the kind of thinking Deleuze [...]

Party plans

I’m having a belated housewarming and Easter drinks at my new place (altho it’s actually old and shabby) on Thursday March 24 from 5.30pm. If you’d like to come, email me and I’ll send you the address.

Speaking in Sydney

Thanks to the lovely people in the Gender and Cultural Studies Department at The University of Sydney, I’m going to be back in the old town during Blog Talk. Send me yr schedule so I can sneak in and see you!
If the blogging is getting too much, or if you’re broke like me and [...]

Gizoogle

Try this – the gangsta alternative to google. Know what I’m sayin’? Posted fo’ all my homies in the pen. Word.

Liz Grosz @ UQ

Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University, will be giving a talk ‘Deleuze, Bergson, and Becoming’ at 2pm, Wednesday, March 16th, 2005 in Room E109 Forgan Smith Building.
In her recent book the Nick of Time: Politics, evolution and the untimely, (Allen & Unwin, 2004), Elizabeth Grosz juxtaposes the work of Darwin, Nietzsche and Bergson. Each theorises time as [...]

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