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Tariq Ali speaking in Brisbane tonight

An editor for New Left Review and the man in charge of a very fine book catalogue, Tariq Ali speaks tonight, 7pm at the UQ Centre. More details here. Let me know if you’re going…

Ten long years

I take it all back Michael Jeffrey. You are capable of saying some important things. Now if you could please just stop using that insulting tautology, ‘practical reconciliation’, we might be getting somewhere. This week my students are writing their final essays. There have four questions to choose from but the most popular so far [...]

Soundbites

Suw Charman writes a lengthy post on the nuances of blogging which seem to get lost in mainstream media attempts to ‘get it’. She has a great line that I might steal for my upcoming blogging and gender chapter: “We don’t talk about ‘serious’ telephone users, so why talk about ‘serious’ bloggers?” She also has [...]

The search begins

Today I went to my first auction. For a house. It was in Paddington, a loverly 3 bedroom place with a big backyard. It even had a water feature. No one wanted to pay the price the owners wanted, at least in public, so it was a bit of a fizzer in the sense that [...]

Meme-ories light the corner of my mind

MGinSydney#1 Laura was right, I have been a busy blogger. While away I was tagged by the same meme twice, which makes me think someone’s trying to tell me something. Well, that I should be writing on my blog, I guess. What follows will be a hyrid version of both. On Saturday night at the [...]

Festival spirit

Ladyfest Badge Ladyfest is a cultural and music festival for ladies being held in Brisbane in September. I am so excited… I should even have my frat house by then, so any non-Vegas ladies can come stay. Nadia just dropped off a poster for the fundraiser next Saturday night. ‘Hairy Chests 4 Ladyfest’ will be [...]

I am not dead

… I did come back from Sydney. First off: this tonight. Anyone else in Brisbane going? Ross Gibson is terrific.

Sydney bound

So tomorrow night come down to The Rose on Cleveland St if you’re in Sydney. I’ll be there from 6pm, and so should Sandy, Glen, Cliffy and Will. On Friday afternoon Jane, Will and I will be doing our seminar on ‘Uncool Cultural Studies’ from 2-4pm in the Western Tower Room, Main Quad, Sydney Uni. [...]

Writing that hurts

Ben Hoh has written something scarily good for Blogtalk. It may have started out as a reflection on the Storybox project he ran with refugee bloggers, but by assiduously noting their very different encounters with and uses of the technologies, the paper turns into an incredibly sophisticated discussion – of the unstated assumptions behind ‘our’ [...]

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