Sydney bound
Posted on | May 18, 2005 |
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. Jane tells me she has organised a projector to show some precious family film from the early 1960s - can’t wait to see that (tho still devastated that my Dad has thrown out ours!). My talk will be based on the ‘Feeling Ordinary’ paper I gave in Perth last December, but I’m going to add a few new observations in light of what has been happening here on the blog since then. I’ll also be talking about a new project I have in the works: a study of academic bloggers.
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May 18th, 2005 @ 5:38 pm
Bah, Glen’s Blogtalk paper is on at the same time on Friday! What are we going to DO???
May 18th, 2005 @ 6:01 pm
that is cool. i can give you the unedited director’s cut version later. it is in widescreen and the special effects have been rejigged so it seems like more of a movie. yeah. authentic.
i so can’t believe i chopped all the fuckin deleuze stuff out of my blogtalk paper because i thought they had to be under 3000 words. bloody shithouse. anyway, so my presentation is basically me talking about all the stuff that was chopped out the paper submited. nothing too spectacular. just stuff on 1) how blogging can exist in the intersection of the ‘media event’ and what paul patton calls a ’social event’; then 2) how blogging enables a particular mode of communication that allows for the continual modulation of the incorporeal aspects of this evental overlap, ie what Deleuze calls ’sense’ or particular actualisations of the ‘pure event’, which is distributed via the potential hyperlinked networked form of blogging across a number of blogs; lastly 3) examining this potential not in relation to the ‘media event’ but the daily ’social events’ of which we are part or of which we want to be part, so that ‘events’ do not happen in the media or ‘out there’, but involve us in their happenings.
Basically it continues my anti-(re)mediation-thesis media studies rant that began with my thinking about blockbuster movie sequels.
so there you go, no need to come now! problem solved! woohoo!
May 18th, 2005 @ 6:31 pm
Heh. The true lines of allegiance will be revealed! No really - the only imperative is that we all meet at a pub somewhere in the next three days to muse on the radness that let us find each other virtually and in the ‘real’ world.
May 18th, 2005 @ 9:14 pm
…and i need a drink!!!!
May 19th, 2005 @ 8:53 am
oooooh, so jealous! have a beer for me. I however am going on a junket to Melbourne on Sat/Sun, so there.
May 19th, 2005 @ 6:31 pm
Jealous…me too. Have a drink for me. And good luck with your talks.
May 19th, 2005 @ 10:51 pm
My timing is not too good Mel, but here’s a little meme in case you feel the urge for some last-minute procrastinating.
May 25th, 2005 @ 12:26 pm
My academic blogging paper has a red hot name: simply, “Ribbon”. So you have to kick up the naming convention right up the wazoo! I should have presented my aborto-Blogtalk to you over drinks, but it didn’t seem right to bring up ‘pataphysics and Bataille. Not without getting glassed.
Jean, if there’s drinks in Melbourne, let me know!
May 25th, 2005 @ 1:07 pm
Christian, I was in Melbs when you were in Syd! dammit